{"id":82923,"date":"2015-10-29T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T08:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=82923"},"modified":"2015-10-29T10:46:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T08:46:20","slug":"batman-arkham-knight-pc-buyers-get-all-arkham-games-free-as-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/82923-batman-arkham-knight-pc-buyers-get-all-arkham-games-free-as-compensation","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Arkham Knight PC buyers get all Arkham games free as compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a tough time for Warner Bros. and Rocksteady.<\/p>\n<p>After initially releasing\u00a0the highly-anticipated\u00a0<em>Batman: Arkham Knight<\/em> on PC, the game was met with a myriad of technical problems and <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/77750-batman-arkham-knight-pc-sales-halted-get-your-money-back.html\" target=\"_blank\">digital and physical sales were halted<\/a>, causing some seriously disgruntled PC gamers.<\/p>\n<p>The game is now back up for sale on Steam as of this week, and Warner Bros. (WB) feels a solitary apology for making their fans wait four months just won&#8217;t cut it \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/82816-batman-arkham-knights-re-release-for-pc-arrives-october-28.html\" target=\"_blank\">something we made light of ourselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, as compensation, <a href=\"https:\/\/community.wbgames.com\/t5\/Official-Announcements\/PC-Update-October-28th\/m-p\/864134#U864134\" target=\"_blank\">WB has announced<\/a> plans to give away free digital copies of <em>Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY<\/em>, <em>Batman: Arkham City GOTY<\/em>, <em>Batman: Arkham Origins<\/em> and <em>Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate<\/em> to players who purchase the PC version of <em>Batman: Arkham Knight<\/em> before to November 16th.<\/p>\n<p>The free games will also be offered to those who have previously purchased the title, and should appear in players&#8217; Steam libraries by December.<\/p>\n<p>Rocksteady will also develop a new &#8220;Community Challenge Pack&#8221; to be given away free to all owners in January. The pack will be available on both PC and console, but will arrive one week early on PC.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, <em>Team Fortress 2<\/em> players will also receive <em>Batman: Arkham<\/em> inspired cosmetic items designed by the community.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. says that the free items come as a &#8220;show of our appreciation&#8221; to fans who have been waiting for the game to return to Steam after issues with the PC version were discovered shortly after its release.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\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\"><strong>More Batman: Arkham Knight news<\/strong><\/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>Warner Bros. feels bad, which means gamers win. Sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":81620,"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":[12065,9527,16247,16249,11386,16245,15397,1580,85,4943],"class_list":["post-82923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-batman-arkham-knight","tag-batman-arkham-origins","tag-batman-arkham-asylum-goty","tag-batman-arkham-city-goty","tag-batman-arkham-origins-blackgate","tag-dc","tag-pc","tag-rocksteady","tag-steam","tag-warner-bros-interactive-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82923","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=82923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82927,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82923\/revisions\/82927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}