The Tekken 8 group has been on hearth this month after gamers discovered a brand new stage coming to the acclaimed preventing recreation wouldn’t be included within the $110 Deluxe model they bought at launch. As a substitute, the DLC stage could be bought individually for $5. A Steam evaluate bombing marketing campaign ensued, and now Bandai Namco is giving gamers $5 value of free Tekken cash to attempt to get everybody to relax out.
“We apologize for not assembly the group’s expectations for the ‘Playable Character Yr 1 Move’ content material and the “Genmaji Temple’ DLC launch technique,” the Tekken account shared on X (previously Twitter) on Thursday. “After completely discussing the suggestions, the Tekken Challenge workforce has selected the next measures.”
To placate indignant followers, those that bought the yr 1 character move will get an upcoming winter battle stage without cost, whereas everybody who logs onto the sport between October 29 and November 26 will get 500 Tekken cash (which is equal to $5 of in-game forex) to spend on different microtransactions. And it appears to be working. “This can be a W for Tekken! Thanks for listening to suggestions,” reads the primary touch upon the publish.
Whereas there was by no means an express promise that future DLC levels could be included within the $3 character move, Occasion Hubs stories that current preventing recreation microtransaction tendencies in Avenue Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Tekken have conditioned followers to count on sure issues shall be included in annual passes. It didn’t assist that the Genmaji Temple stage was launched alongside the newest DLC character, Heichachi Mishima, who was included within the character move. Even those that already spent $110 on the costliest model of Tekken 8 nonetheless wanted to pay extra to entry the brand new stage.
In a now-deleted assertion, director Katsuhiro Harada addressed the outrage earlier this month:
I perceive that the group has some questions in regards to the launch of this stage DLC. Because the particular person in control of the Tekken franchise, I apologize.
It was made clear from the start that the Yr One Move (Season Move) wouldn’t embrace levels, BUT even so, when the Lidia Sobieska DLC was launched, the [Sea Side Resort Stage was a free update], and on this case, the [Even though the additional Story Mode, which should have had the highest development costs, is a Free Update].
BUT [the Genmaji stage was Sold Separately], and because of this, the discharge ended up being one which was NOT nicely understood or Accepted by everybody (a minimum of the just about all group was anticipating a sample much like that of Lidia).
Harada mentioned he would evaluate how Bandai Namco communicates with gamers and buildings DLC releases sooner or later to verify gamers are on the identical web page, however days later Tekken 8 was thrust into a brand new controversy when Chinese language professional participant Essence|XCC was disqualified from a current event for residing in an ineligible nation. “We perceive that this determination has trigger disappointment amongst some members of the group, and we’ll take into account adjusting the official guidelines for future seasons,” the Tekken esports organizers wrote earlier this month. Harada was as soon as once more additionally apparently confused in regards to the scenario.
However a second, much more extreme spherical of adverse Steam evaluations hit Tekken 8 anyway because of the participant’s ban. Issues have evened out in current days, however the recreation’s Steam ranking has nonetheless been damage. It’s at present at “combined” regardless of reward for the underlying recreation and its PC efficiency. We’ll see if the newest giveaway helps in any respect. Harada additionally beforehand introduced that Tekken would “make each effort to extend the variety of collaborating nations sooner or later” to keep away from conditions like what occurred to Essence|XCC.