GTA 4 Patch Incoming
Downplaying the tragedy that is the PC port of Grand Theft Auto IV, which has been plagued by bugs, graphical glitches and slowdowns of various sorts, developer and publisher Rockstar has announced that it has completed work on the first patch. They note that since the game is a Games for Windows Live title, the patch has to be certified by Microsoft before release; they expect a “speedy approval.”
Continuing, Rockstar notes that “roughly around one percent” are having issues with the game. The statement is ironic seeing as how everyone is reporting problems of some sort or another.
“Going through certification with Microsoft and our external QA process, we didn’t run into the amount of problems that the boards seemed to be saying there are,” said development VP Jeronimo Barrera.
“We’re seeing some of the things that people are complaining about but they’re so peripheral of the target audience,” Barrera continued. “We do recognize that people are having problems with this but it’s not the disaster that people have it hyped up to be.”
Expect the patch to drop in a couple of days.