10 Ways The Video Game Industry Takes Advantage Of Its Biggest Fans
9. Rushing PC Ports To Make An Easy Buck
For various companies, once a game has exhausted its financial potential on consoles, a PC port is great because it opens up a whole new, albeit smaller market for them. For PC gamers though, bad ports have become the stuff of nightmares.
Arkham Knight is probably the worst and most recent example of this tendency to release unplayable PC versions of console games, eventually leading to it being pulled from the Steam storefront entirely. Thankfully in this case, Warner Bros. were forced to offer refunds to anyone unlucky enough to purchase the game, but thats absolutely no excuse for their attempt to release the game in the first place.
The trouble is, PC gamers are often pegged as a community of tech enthusiasts who will willingly clean up after the industrys messes, making their own unofficial patches and modding the games into a state of functionality. I mean, its true; most PC ports are eventually fixed by fans, but thats hardly the point.