The developer of Steam’s smash hit Black Myth: Wukong has apologized for any technical or performance issues players have experienced since the game went on sale early this morning.
Game Science released a statement on Black Myth: Wukong’s Steam page promising patches to address these performance issues. In the statement, Game Science warned that “despite multiple internal full-process tests of Black Myth: Wukong, severe issues may still occasionally arise given the game’s massive scale and variety of software and hardware environments.”
“We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause,” Game Science continued.
IGN’s Black Myth: Wukong Review gave it 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.”
As you dive into Black Myth: Wukong, be sure to check out our feature, 13 Things Black Myth: Wukong Doesn’t Tell You.
Game Science said that issues preventing players from playing the game “can mostly be resolved by resting at the Keeper’s Shrine or restarting the game.” There are also reports of graphical issues as well as PC-specific crashing issues.
Game Science then asked players to agree to the “Data Storage and Processing Agreement” so that “we can proactively address issues and save you the hassle of reporting them.”
“The development team will continue to focus entirely on the quality of each player’s experience and will promptly address any issues that impact normal gameplay in subsequent patches,” Game Science continued.
Black Myth: Wukong has enjoyed a tremendous launch on Steam, where it has overtaken Cyberpunk2077 to become the most played single-player game of all time on Valve’s platform. With an incredible 1,833,908 concurrent players at its peak, Black Myth: Wukong has already reached the third highest concurrent player count of all time on Steam, trailing only PUBG (3,257,248) and Palworld (2,101,867). The game already has over 55,000 user reviews on Steam, with an “overwhelmingly positive” user rating.
But Black Myth: Wukong’s launch is going to be even bigger than Steam suggests. It’s also been released on PlayStation 5 (Sony Interactive Entertainment doesn’t make PlayStation player counts public), Tencent’s Chinese gaming 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 confirmed an email from the Black Myth: Wukong The marketing team told content creators who were assigned a Steam key that they were not allowed to include “feminist propaganda” or use so-called “trigger words” such as COVID-19 in their coverage.
The Chinese studio Game Science has not yet responded Previous report from IGN Compilation of numerous sexist comments from studio founders and other developers over the last decade.
Wesley is IGN’s UK News Editor. You can find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can contact Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].
