Less than a week after re-releasing the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight, which is amazingly still very broken, publisher Warner Bros. has thrown in the towel and begun offering full refunds to customers, regardless of how much of the game they have played. The refund policy is in effect until the end of year.

"We are very sorry that many our customers continue to be unhappy with the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight," Warner wrote on the game's Steam page. "We worked hard to get the game to live up to the standard you deserve but understand that many of you are still experiencing issues."

Worryingly, while Warner says it will continue to try and fix Arkham Knight's issues for anyone that decides to stick it out, it also notes it will talk to customers directly "about the issues that we cannot fix." Currently, the game still suffers from "a hard drive paging issue with some GPUs on Windows 7," while Windows 10 users require "at least 12GB of system RAM" to ensure the game operates without stuttering.

Digital Foundry's look at the latest version of Arkham Knight found that while there were a few improvements, the bar had moved very little from when Warner released its initial patch months ago. "This is a wholly sub-optimal release that remains one of the most disappointing PC versions we've played," reads the article.

"Assuming your PC is robust enough and you have enough VRAM, you can buy this game and get a decent enough console-level experience [read: 30 FPS]—but bearing in mind the continued lack of respect for the PC userbase, the question is whether the developers and publishers deserve your support at all."

The PC launch of Arkham Knight has been an absolute disaster for publisher Warner and developer Rocksteady; customers were already recommended to request refunds after its initial buggy launch. Despite being handled by a third-party porting house, how a game in such a bad state ever got released—particularly when major PC graphics card manufacturer Nvidia was ostensibly involved in development, too—is a mystery. While Warner promises it will continue working on the game, after being burned so badly by it, should the PC community even care?