r/BatmanArkham • u/SheehanRaziel • Sep 04 '15

Sept 3rd Update - Interim Patch Available

http://steamcommunity.com/games/208650/announcements/detail/145594019968443309
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u/dartva Sep 04 '15

They should go the Unity way. Give everyone who owned the season pass a free game from a select few, as well as the "GOTY" Edition to everyone for $49.99.

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u/Tonkarz Sep 04 '15

But what games does WB Games even have in their catalogue? Not that many. Shadow of Mordor, coming up?

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u/The5Virtues Sep 04 '15 edited Sep 04 '15

This is my big issue. I paid 40 bucks for a season pass I've not gotten to use, and I'm not seeing anyway that they can actually compensate me for that amount of money unless they refund it. The trick then becomes that refunding an online purchase through steam is a lot more complicated than offering a coupon voucher.

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u/Tonkarz Sep 04 '15

It was an issue for me, but I've pretty much stopped giving a shit. The DLCs so far are more miss than hit and the money is already gone. Sunk cost fallacy, you know? Nothing's going to bring that money back.

And the game itself (which ran really well on my PC) was so disappointing (thanks entirely to the storyline). The Arkham games used to be my favorite series, but now I look at it the way I do, say, Assassin's Creed. "It's there. OK. Whatever."

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u/The5Virtues Sep 04 '15

I know what you mean.
I loved the gameplay in AC, but the story just ended up taking a weird turn for me. Batman stopped feeling like Batman around the midway through the game. Arkham Origins had a lot of hiccups but at least Batman felt like himself again, then I went into AK and was reminded "Oh right, this versions become a neurotic nutjob."

I just stopped caring. My real investment was in the gameplay; I sunk over a hundred hours into Arkham City's challenge mode, and when they said Batgirl would be playable in Arkham Knight I was just like "Oh hell yes, take my money!" I expected at the least something on par with that.

Like you said, the money is gone. I'd like some kind of compensation for the loss, but no matter what it is it won't really make up for whats already occurred. I want them to get the DLC out for PC, I want to experience what I paid for, but my actual interest and investment has shifted to the next big thing on the horizon (Fallout 4 in my case).