Batman: Arkham Knight has been removed from Steam

Following the terrible PC port for Batman: Arkham Knight, the game has been removed from Steam due to bugs, performance issues, and it being no where near the bar PC gamers expect ports to reach at a minimum. With all the delays, it was logical to think the game would be a perfect release, incredibly polished and a fine conclusion to the Arkham series of games. For console gamers, this may be the case. However, the PC port has an awful array of bugs, most notably that the game can delete itself whilst verifying the game's cache.

As a result, Warner Bros. has decided to suspend sales of the PC version of the game, here's the full statement:

"We want to apologize to those of you who are experiencing performance issues with Batman: Arkham Knight on PC. 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. 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.

Thank you to those players who have already given valuable feedback. We are continuously monitoring all threads posted in the Official Batman: Arkham Knight Community and Steam forums, as well as any issues logged with our Customer Support (support.wbgames.com). If you purchased your copy of the game and are not satisfied with your experience, then we ask for your patience while these issues are resolved. If desired, you can request a refund at help.steampowered.com (Steam refund policies can be found here: http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds) or the retail location where you purchased the game."

- Yorick, Community Admin for the Warner Bros. Games Community Forum

This is a very rare incident indeed, and most surprising as well considering that in the past Warner Bros. has showed little care for PC games as a platform, such as with Arkham Origins and the recently released Mortal Kombat X. They may have realised that ignoring such huge issues will cause irreparable damage to their brand name. At least we can now we expect a proper release for the game, with no bugs and expected performance levels. No PC hardware can currently run this game at full details, even PCs that literally blow the hardware requirements out of the water.