The developer of massive Steam hit Black Myth: Wukong has apologized for any tech or performance issues players have encountered since the game went on sale in the early hours of this morning.
Game Science took to Black Myth: Wukong’s Steam page to issue a statement promising patches aimed at these performance issues. In the statement, Game Science warned that “despite multiple internal full-process tests of Black Myth: Wukong, given the game's vast scale and the myriad of software and hardware environments, occasional serious issues may still arise.”
“We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause,” Game Science continued.
IGN’s Black Myth: Wukong review returned an 8/10. We said: “Despite some frustrating technical issues, Black Myth: Wukong is a great action game with fantastic combat, exciting bosses, tantalizing secrets, and a beautiful world.”
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Game Science said that if players encounter any issues that prevent them from playing the game, “most of the time they can be resolved by resting at the Keeper's Shrine or restarting the game.” There are reports of graphics issues as well as PC-specific crash problems, too.
Game Science then asked players to consent to its 'Data Storage and Processing Agreement' so “we will be able to address issues proactively, saving you the effort of reporting them.”
“The development team will continue to focus wholeheartedly on the quality of each player's experience and will promptly address any issues affecting normal gameplay in subsequent patches,” Game Science continued.
Black Myth: Wukong has enjoyed an enormous launch on Steam, where it has overtaken Cyberpunk 2077 to become the most-played single-player game ever on Valve’s platform. With an incredible 1,833,908 peak concurrent players so far, Black Myth: Wukong has already seen the third-highest concurrent figure ever on Steam, and is behind only PUBG (3,257,248) and Palworld (2,101,867). Already the game has over 55,000 user reviews on Steam, with an ‘overwhelmingly positive’ user review rating.
But Black Myth: Wukong’s launch will be even bigger than Steam suggests. It also released on PlayStation 5 (Sony Interactive Entertainment does not make PlayStation player numbers publicly available), Tencent’s Chinese game portal WeGame, and the Epic Games Store. An Xbox Series X and S version is due out later (find out why here).
This week, IGN verified an email sent from the Black Myth: Wukong marketing team that told content creators who were granted a Steam key that they must not include “feminist propaganda” or use what are called “trigger words” such as COVID-19 in their coverage.
Chinese studio Game Science has yet to respond to IGN’s previous report compiling numerous sexist comments made by the studio's founders and other developers spanning the last decade.
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