Harada said BNE executives are only interested in milking Tekken 8 & it’s obvious now.
- Overpriced ultimate & collector editions
- Charging $40 to play DLC 3 days early
- Selling Skins then killing completing mods
- Items that was free in past games locked behind battle pass
Tekken 8 should add daily challenges that gives players coin to spend in the shop.
For example:
- Break 5 throws
- Punish 5 rage arts
- Break 5 balconies on any stage
- Win 5 Tekken ball matches
Tekken 8 next update is confirmed to be a defense patch that focuses on addressing Throws, Heat Burst, Heat Dash, & more.
This patch will also nerf these characters:
- Victor
- Lili
- King
- Paul
- Yoshimitsu
Harada said BNE executives are only interested in milking Tekken 8 & it’s obvious now.
- Overpriced ultimate & collector editions
- Charging $40 to play DLC 3 days early
- Selling Skins then killing completing mods
- Items that was free in past games locked behind battle pass
After Tekken 4 sold 2m copies and was considered a failure by the company, Harada quit for over a year and later returned with Micheal Murray to make Tekken 5 which sold 10m copies.
An amazing story of overcoming failure to reach success. (Read below)
Tekken 8 Season 1 cost over $1M to make (free stages included) and would need to make roughly $4m to be considered successful.
- 1 stage cost $180,000
- 1 character cost $160,000
- 2 stages + 4 characters = $1m
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Tekken 8 DLC leak is now confirmed
The in-game credits list both Nadaka Yoshinari and Suakim along with their gyms. Both of these fighters did the motion capture for Fahkumram in T7. Also listed is of Capoeira for Eddy and Karate for Lidia.
Kazumi & Reina related
#TEKKEN8
Heihachi killed Kazumi when Kazuya was 5. He’s 50 in T8 so Kazumi died 45yrs ago. Reina went to Mishima high school so she is age 16-18. The only way Kazumi could be her mother is if Heihachi lied to journalists about her dying & she’s still alive
Here’s my breakdown for Tekken 8’s final DLC character leak:
Kazumi’s movelist was discovered in Tekken 8 game files by
@alikhalil809
who said “There's a really high chance that the last DLC is Kazumi Mishima.”
In May 1988 Namco released a movie called Mirai Ninja/Cyber Ninja. This is the predecessor to Yoshimitsu, The Mechanized Ninja in Tekken and Soul Calibur
Heihachi’s gameplay trailer (most likely) has been added to the Tekken 8 Channel but it’s currently private.
Harada confirmed earlier this week his trailer is coming soon.
Tekken 8 waits till the last minute to announce the release date for characters while other fighting games like MK1 & SF6 announce the release date well in advance. I wonder which of the two marketing strategies is more effective.
Tekken 8 is missing items that was available in past games. Wished the devs said whether or not they would add more items and whether or not it would go the shop or customization.