It’s already been a month since Tekken 8 was launched on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, with a roster starting point composed of 32 playable characters, which will be extended throughout its first year of existence by the arrival of four additional fighters, starting with Eddie Gordo during the spring. During its recent financial report, we learned via Takashi Mochizuki that the game had sold 2 million copies worldwide. It was only at the beginning of the week that Bandai Namco formalizes and confirms this great performance on its networksgreatly exceeding that of its predecessor Tekken 7. This is even more good news for the community. versus fighting if the appeal of the game is important. Competition enthusiasts will also be able to take part from April 13 in the Tekken World Tour 2024 through various events around the world. On the other hand, everything is not so rosy and a recent announcement has the potential to spoil this beautiful picture.
Now that the critics have returned their very positive verdicts with a score Metacritic around 90 and many of the players fell for it, it was announced that a store will be integrated into the gameallowing you to obtain costumes for fighters from previous episodes, skins avatar (mode Arcade Quest) and various licensed collaborative objects. Yes, microtransactions will therefore make their debut in Tekken 8…
The subject was precisely addressed in a recent presentation when an update was given on the future big updates, planned for the end of February or the beginning of March (rather the latter unless there are any surprises in the coming days) and in April immediately. The next one (Ver.1.02.01) will add the Tekken Shop and collaboration in-game with Uniqlo which will be freein addition to modifying certain character behaviors and their moves. Real t-shirts are already on sale at the price of €19.90 on the brand’s website.
Naoya Yasuda having heard the dissatisfaction of certain players, he then declared that the store is mainly there to “maintain a feeling of novelty” rather than simply making money, in the same way that the additions in Tekken 7. Well, in any case, we know very well how this will end, because it will only take one skin very classy so that many players take out the credit card. The video shows that these skins will be sold for 400 Tekken Coins. Without much surprise, producer Michael Murray clarified that this should be equivalent to $3.99. More surprising and which will not help anything, celebratory visual effects, here fireworks of different colors, will be sold for 50 or 100 Tekken Coins. Except that the visual says “x10”, suggesting that these are limited use items… These Tekken Coins can be purchased via the platforms on which the game is available (PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store And Steam). On the other hand, there will be no sharing of this currency between the platforms despite the presence of cross play.
Katsuhiro Harada then added the following (translation by Michael Murray at 56:55), clarifying that in addition to a certain profit, the money from these microtransactions will be used to pay for the continued development of the game and its free contentrather than drawing on the accounts of Bandai Namco.
We would like to ask everyone to update their thoughts on the current game development environment and how they are consumed etc. Games made now are way more expensive than even Tekken 7 was, it’s several times that when you think about current gaming platforms.
The presentation also highlighted numerous derivative products and, above all, of gameplay ofEddie Gordo (from 1:14:10)with its different costumes.
If you wish to obtain Tekken 8it is sold from €62.99 on Amazon And to the Fnac, with €10 offered on your loyalty account with the latter. On PC, Gamesplanet offers it from €59.49.
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