To say the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight has had a rocky release would be quite an understatement. In the past year, the game has been released, pulled from Steam, had Steam reviews tagged as “pre-release”, re-released, then having to give refunds to players because the game was broken again, though not as completely broken as before. In that time, it was also revealed that Warner Bros. allegedly knew the game was broken.
Now, Warner Bros. is tagging the thousands of Steam reviews since the re-release on Steam as “pre-release” reviews - again.
What is odd is that not all of the reviews have been tagged as “pre-release”, so there seems to be no transparency as to which build that the gamers are playing is “pre-release” or “post-release”. Regardless of the reasons, the “pre-release” review tag is supposed to be for games on Steam Early Access, and not for games that have an official launch, much less a game that was proclaimed fixed and re-launched to the public.
Warner Bros. and Rocksteady have not responded to requests for clarification, and have yet to even release a statement. Stay tuned for more on the soap opera that Batman: Arkham Knight has become. The real question is: has the Batman: Arkham series been killed by this controversy? Let us know.
UPDATE: Warner Bros. has given a brief statement saying that the tagging is ”a mistake and it is in the process of being fixed.”
