Following an outbreak of drama llamas two weeks back, when 2K Marin announced they wouldn’t be bringing the BioShock 2 Protector Trials and Minerva’s Den DLC packs nor a game update to PC, it turns out it was all a joke or something. Or probably just a really bad decision the company instantly regretted when the universe exploded in response.
In a post over on the company’s forums, 2K rep Elizabeth With-No-Surname confirms they’ve uncancelled the cancellation, and “have resumed development on all three and they will be coming to PC”.
She goes on to explain that, “When we announced that Protector Trials and Minerva’s Den would not be coming out for the PC due to technical and timing issues, we received a lot of feedback (much of it understandably expressing disappointment and anger) about our decision. I was also asked for more details about what technical and timing issues we were faced with – and I want to take this time to explain a bit more. In terms of the patch and the Protector Trials, we had a working build but there were bugs in the code that would trigger problems with the game during specific situations, and we were not happy enough with the status of the build to release it for certification with Microsoft. As time moved on, we could not resolve these issues to our standards and so could not release to cert. As with all games, however, the dev cycle must end and patches and updates must conclude so that the team can move on to other projects. We hit that deadline without the content being in a state we were satisfied with, so we did not release it.”
But now everything’s changed, and 2K expects the game update and Protector Trials DLC to be ready for launch sometime in December, and will be available free. Meanwhile, they’ve also “allocated resources” to working on Minerva’s Den, but no additional details have been revealed.
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