Mafia II: Definitive Edition Developer Working with 2K to Fix Poor Remaster

“Continued support”

What a joke. How about releasing the game in working order in the first place instead of ripping people off with shoddy products.

How do people at a game studio not even take 1 disc and put it in their ps4 to see how it looks and plays.

Honestly all countries should make a law that games can be returned for actually being a broken product. It also should not matter if bought the game digital or in a store.
This should teach game dev’s and studios to not release broken products. This is truly unacceptable.

You don’t even need to be a graphics junkie to notice the difference between a stable frame rate and a frequent unstable framerate.
And I’m not even talking about game testers...

Thanks for all the feedback-'cos its not like we paid any attention ourselves or ran this by a team of QA testers before 2K sneaked this out on PSN for a quick cash grab! "Oops,was that our inside voice talking?!"

Imagine re-releasing a game and it being worse than the first version of the game.

They've somehow made Mafia 3 worse than it was originally lol

Not only did this mess pass through QA and testing, but there are reports Mafia 3 was messed up. Geez. Will it all git fixed? Maybe?

Seriously passing on this as i have the original PS3 game.

And these companies wonder why people are so untrustworthy of them these days.

2K make Bethesda look like competent video game developers these days

@BrintaPap Agreed. It's been the same with SnowRunner on all platforms.

It's unbelievable how standards have slipped recently for many devs. The fact that games can be patched/improved after launch these days is great, but the increasingly unfortunate downside is that too many seem to feel that they can push out any old crap and fix it later.

You expect some bugs in a game, certainly... but too many are releasing with game-breaking flaws, several of which it seems are too glaringly obvious to have gone unnoticed if they had performed even the most basic play-testing.

@Paranoimia I also agree with you.

This BS needs to be picked up by the autorities. It really is not first time that happens but it should not be expected at every game to be (maybe) patched afterwards.

@BrintaPap Let's just hope none of these devs ever move into aircraft autopilot or nuclear reactor control systems. Cripes, imagine that! "Just push it out... if anything goes wrong, we'll fix it post-launch." 😱

So excited for the mafia trilogy never played the first 1 enjoyed the 2nd one despite the technical issues and I never noticed until mentioned earlier that the pro patch is non existent for 3 have high hopes for the first one in August if it's an issues likes these two I'll be gutted

Now we know why they didnt dare too release it physical. 😆

Yeah I'm just gonna play this on my ps3

@BrintaPap Often times it's out of the hands of the developer and is instead something mandated by a publisher or other controlling body. They (this governing body) don't care if it's broken, they just want it out to start making money. Developers often know how bad a state a game is when released too early, but they're working on a contract and often time can't contest a ship date (especially so when you're a small team remastering something As opposed to a massive AAA studio that's bringing in mega $$ for the above mentioned governing body).

2k release horribly broken games?!?!?

Never.

It’s their gimmick. Is there any surprise... if they actually fix it that will be the real plot twist.

Cant wait for the Mafia Remake to be released only to be revealed they forgot to remake it

Little interest even though I got it for free will stick with the classic version on steam , which is better in nearly every way, with it being ten years old makes this remaster look even worse.

A ten year old game that's a quarter the size that's runs a hundred times better than a so called remake

@carlos82 It's actually easier to name the good publishers. Namely, Sony, Nintendo and CD Projekt (and I personally like Focus Home and THQ). Everyone else comes in two forms, have-always-been-scummy and fallen-from-grace.

And it's a real shame because some of my most favourite franchises are locked up in the vaults of those scummy and fallen Publishers.

Time to start giving us refunds.

So.... No quality control then?

@Dodoo total *****

How did this happen? Unrealistic publisher deadlines. Would have been better to hold off till the first one is complete and release the trilogy all at once

@djape speak for yourself

@stuzster But they have managed to brake Mafia 3 few years later without even remastering it 🤣 I got it since release date, but didn't play it more than two hours in total. Because it was too low quality (for me) same as Fallout whatever. Textures popping and all the time the game looks pink - sky, buildings, tarmac -all freaking blurred and pink. And they told me to ef off with my complains.

@Dodoo no I was just agreeing with you and saying its BS how they release game in the state it is and still ask for $50 AUD... its just pathetic from 2K

Can I just say that D3t ltd have a record of poor games they did the Sega Mega Drive Classics on Steam and even made it with a 3d bedroom you can scroll a round and your games are on a 3d shelf in the original case. When it first launched it would brick systems because it was so poorly optimised it took them 2 years to get it working properly.

The game was a money grab for take 2 simple as that get it out asap fix it later

@djape ah my bad, misunderstood you, sorry pal...

@Dodoo my bad too mate, I didnt put any info in the first place too.