Recently, Tekken 8 received a new update with several changes. These were not well received at all by some players. The director reacts to this anger.
Tekken 8, released earlier this year, caused quite a stir in the fighting game world. Highly anticipated, it did not fail to meet the expectations of the press. We give it an almost perfect grade of 9/10! It has to be said that the software has several strengths: It is graphically the most complex of its colleagues, its lifespan is also one of the longest and it has become much more accessible for beginners. Tekken 8 seems to have everything, and yet! A patch recently surfaced that seems to be upsetting many fans.
Players are dissatisfied with the Tekken 8 store
Tekken 8 version 1.02.01 has just been released. The biggest new addition is the Tekken Shop, a cosmetics store. Nothing shocking so far, especially at the moment. But the devil is in the details. As usual, skins are purchased with a so-called “premium” currency, here “Tekken Coins”. The only thing is that the appearance of a character costs 400 Tekken Coins, while the minimum package with which you can purchase currencies is 500 and costs $5. So there is a surplus of 100 pieces, which means 20% of the price is paid for free. A common technique in free-to-play mode to get players to consume more by leaving them a little more money in their hand.
However, there is a way to have all the skins with virtually no surplus. The total price of the 8 skins available is 3200 Tekken Coins and there is a pack of 3210 for $29.99. There are almost no discounts here, except that the price is clearly not the same. Some players then get annoyed via social networks, such as on Reddit where we can read: “To say this is acceptable is to ask Bandai Namco to put up a paywall everywhere using methods that are anything but beneficial to the player. This will not save the license. That will kill her.
Katsuhiro Harada, the director of Tekken 8, answers!
After hearing about this controversy, Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada released a press release on Twitter. He explains the studio’s financial needs. In fact, the development costs for such complex games are very high. Video games cost ten times more today than they did in the 90s. For comparison, he explains that Tekken 8 cost two to three times more money than Tekken 7. Therefore, even the already huge price of 79.99 dollars when the game was released cannot cover the costs in the long term.
Because yes, games these days also need to receive content updates and their online servers need maintenance. It also costs a lot of money. For a game to stay alive, it has to bring in revenue. However, keep in mind that these microtransactions are still optional and do not affect the gameplay of the game.
