{"id":77750,"date":"2015-06-25T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T08:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=77750"},"modified":"2015-06-25T10:50:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T08:50:56","slug":"batman-arkham-knight-pc-sales-halted-get-your-money-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/77750-batman-arkham-knight-pc-sales-halted-get-your-money-back","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Arkham Knight PC sales halted, get your money back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/77702-everything-wrong-with-batman-arkham-knight-for-pc-and-whos-to-blame.html\" target=\"_blank\">huge furore of issues with Batman: Arkham Knight<\/a>, Warner Bros. has pulled the plug on all PC sales of the game until things can be sorted out.<\/p>\n<p>The company has suspended any sales of the game in order for the performance issues to be addressed before the game will be available once more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to apologise to those of you who are experiencing performance issues with <em>Batman: Arkham Knight<\/em> on PC,&#8221; says a statement on the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.wbgames.com\/t5\/Support-for-PC\/June-24-Update-on-PC-Version-of-Arkham-Knight\/m-p\/575332#U575332\" target=\"_blank\">WB Games forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We take these issues very seriously and have therefore decided to suspend future game sales of the PC version while we work to address these issues to satisfy our quality standards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We greatly value our customers and know that while there are a significant amount of players who are enjoying the game on PC, we want to do whatever we can to make the experience better for PC players overall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The publisher also said that PC gamers who bought the game can request a refund through Steam if they want, or through the shop you bought the game from.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The<em> Batman: Arkham<\/em> fans have continually supported the franchise to its current height of success, and we want to thank you for your patience as we work to deliver an updated version of <em>Batman: Arkham Knight<\/em> on PC so you can all enjoy the final chapter of the <em>Batman: Arkham<\/em> series as it was meant to be played,&#8221; the statement closed.<\/p>\n<p>The problem stems from the PC version of <em>Batman: Arkham Knight<\/em> not being developed by Rocksteady but by an external studio. Iron Galaxy is mentioned in the game&#8217;s credits but that involvement still isn&#8217;t confirmed by Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/community.wbgames.com\/t5\/Support-for-PC\/June-24-Update-on-PC-Version-of-Arkham-Knight\/m-p\/575332#U575332\" target=\"_blank\">WB\u00a0forums<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=1069874\" target=\"_blank\">NeoGAF<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h4><strong>Article courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Batman: Arkham Knight news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/77606-batman-arkham-knight-review-roundup.html\">Batman: Arkham Knight Review Roundup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/76308-batman-akham-knights-latest-trailer-is-a-call-for-war.html\">Batman: Akham Knight\u2019s latest trailer is a call for war<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/75758-what-to-know-about-batman-arkham-knight.html\">What to know about Batman: Arkham Knight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The caped crusader&#8217;s current stint on PC has been put on halt until the creases have been ironed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":77608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[247,12065,14526,9330,1580,251],"class_list":["post-77750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-batman","tag-batman-arkham-knight","tag-batman-arkham-knight-pc","tag-pc-game","tag-rocksteady","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77750","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77752,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77750\/revisions\/77752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}