Thursday, November 19th 2015
SLI and CrossFire Support "Not Practical" - Batman Arkham Knight Developer
Batman Arkham Knight gamers' woes on the PC platform continue, as a patch that lets the game take advantage of multi-GPU technologies like SLI and CrossFire remains elusive. Responding to a distraught multi-GPU user on Steam Community forums, a developer stated that implementing multi-GPU support presented a too high risk of creating new issues for the gamers, to be "practical." The PC release of Batman Arkham Knight has been riddled with bugs, which caused its publisher to pull the Unreal Engine 3 based game off the shelves to fix those bugs, and a less than successful re-launch that ended up in distribution platform Steam taking refund requests until late-December. The developer, who goes by the username "wb.elder.pliny" stated:
Source:
Steam Community
We've been working with our development and graphics driver partners over the last few months to investigate utilizing multi-GPU support within Batman: Arkham Knight. The result was that even the best case estimates for performance improvements turned out to be relatively small given the high risk of creating new issues for all players. As a result we've had to make the difficult decision to stop work on further multi-GPU support. We are disappointed that this was not practical and apologize to those who have been waiting for this feature.
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But instead it's still more feasible to release a buggy game, eat few refunds and still make huge profit. And in the end, only ones who get screwed are gamers. Just don't. Refund and never look back. If words and criticisms never teach them, money always will.
"We've somehow succeeded in FUBARing an engine so hard, that even though it's running on hardware that's nearly a decade newer than what it was written for, we still haven't attained acceptable performance. All of this because we consider PC-gaming some kind of afterthought, and couldn't be bothered to invest any resources besides these overworked, underpaid codemonkeys.
We hope we can keep shovelling shit your way and that you mindlessly keep eating it up while paying through the nose."
Vote with your wallet, people.
These fat companies are full of lousy filth that doesn't want to make a decent product and would rather invest all their effort into a bloated advertising campaign to get back the sales.
I'm not going to talk to the wall that is gaming consumerism and say not to pre-order or not to buy broken games, because it will keep happening and the gaming industry will go to **** because of exactly that, but when it happens, I'll be elsewhere, laughing at the fools that were to blame.
shortest joke ever.
I thought about it initially, but people started to rant about it right away.
I didn't get it and I'm ~so~ glad.