Tekken 8 began off robust with widespread vital acclaim and spectacular gross sales proper out the gate, however Bandai Namco’s post-launch monetization strategy for the fighter has irked a good few in its participant base. The corporate’s resolution so as to add an in-game microtransactions retailer a couple of weeks after launch was met with important backlash, and the latest resolution to introduce a battle cross has provoked the same response.
That’s mirrored within the recreation’s Steam consumer evaluations. On the platform, the sport’s latest evaluations present a Blended score, with 40 % of over 3,100 evaluations within the final 30 days being damaging. Unsurprisingly, nearly all of damaging consumer evaluations for the sport name out its in-game microtransactions retailer and newly-introduced battle cross, with a number of additionally mentioning that the bottom recreation value $70 to start with.
Somewhat over a month in the past, within the speedy aftermath of the announcement that Tekken 8 was including an in-game retailer, director Katsuro Harada defended Bandai Namco’s resolution to take action, citing quickly growing growth prices, with Tekken 8 apparently having value almost thrice as a lot as its predecessor, and stating that constant post-launch help for the sport requires but extra investments.
Tekken 8 is out there on PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, and PC.
