{"id":5391,"date":"2010-02-15T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"no-gamepad-support-for-bioshock-2-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/5391-no-gamepad-support-for-bioshock-2-pc","title":{"rendered":"No gamepad support for Bioshock 2 PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite universal outrage regarding Bioshock 2&rsquo;s lack of official gamepad support for PC, publisher 2K Games has revealed that there are no plans to add such support in any future patches.<\/p>\n<p>Community Manager 2K Elizabeth recently<a href=\"will be taken in to account when we are planning in the future.&rdquo; http:\/\/forums.2kgames.com\/forums\/showpost.php?p=642668&amp;postcount=362\" target=\"_blank\"> posted <\/a>the following:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I talked to the dev team about controller support for BioShock 2, and I want to let you know that we won&#8217;t be adding this into the game in a patch. The decision not to support the controller was not made lightly, and to add it now would take a complete re-envisioning of the UI that the team worked so hard to create.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#8217;m sorry for those of you who are disappointed, and I want you to know that your comments and concerns have been heard and will be taken in to account when we are planning in the future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This revelation may come as a shock to some, considering that Bioshock offered PC peripheral support when it was released.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/62364\" target=\"_blank\">Shack News<\/a> 2K Games abandoned gamepad support in order to get &#8220;the mouse and keyboard control absolutely right.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2K Games has no plans to release peripheral support patch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}