Batman: Arkham Knight PC was outsourced and ported by 12 people, Rocksteady issues statement It's been discovered that only 12 people were in charge of handling the PC port of Batman: Arkham Knight over at Iron Galaxy Studios.

With the release of Batman: Arkham Knight, PC gamers learned the unfortunate truth that their version has been poorly optimized to take advantage of the platform. It appears the poor optimization can be directed towards the development studio that was outsourced for the project, Iron Galaxy Studios. If that name sounds familiar to you, it’s because it’s the studio that handled Batman: Arkham Origins’ PC port as well as worked on Killer Instinct Season 2 and Borderlands: The Handsome Jack Collection.

According to Batman: Arkham Knight’s credits, it appears Iron Galaxy Studios only had 12 of its employees working on the PC port of the game. Considering how ambitious of a game Arkham Knight is, having just 12 people working on the game seems a bit on the small side if you ask us. And after experiencing the many issues the PC version of Arkham Knight has, as well as reading complaints from a wide variety of Steam users, we have a feeling this amount of people just wasn’t enough to provide the kind of product customers expected.

Rocksteady Studios issued a statement regarding the PC version of Arkham Knight. Arkham community manager CODA wrote in the game’s official forum, saying “We're aware that some users are reporting performance issues with the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight. This is something that Rocksteady takes very seriously. We are working closely with our external PC development partner to make sure these issues get resolved as quickly as possible.”

In the meantime, Batman: Arkham Knight continues to receive mostly negative reviews on Steam, which has stopped promoting the game on its frontpage shortly after its release. Hopefully Rocksteady Studios will take matters into its own hands and help Iron Galaxy iron out many of the issues the PC versions have. In the meantime, check out our tips on how to better optimize the PC version of Arkham Knight.