Tekken 8 Dev Responds to Disastrous Season 3 Backlash, Confirms New Update Schedule

I know some SF6 fans want bigger, more frequent balance adjustments but I'll gladly take the current approach they have compared to how chaotic Tekken 8's updates have been.

Feels like they can't settle on a direction they want to go in and so instead the game is needing emergency patches, announcements of emergency patches, hot fixes galore, etc.

Sometimes...less really is more.

I stopped playing this after the 2.0 update and then reinstalled after the promise of fixes for 3.0, yet to play it but guess I’ll be uninstalling again. I feel like they’ve really messed the game up, whatever updates they put out going forward the reputational damage for the game has been done. It’s a shame as tekken has always been my favourite of the fighting games, I enjoyed 8 before 2.0

It still sounds like they don't know what they're doing - unless they really don't want to go the way the players would like.

I think fans will take this with a pinch of salt now to be honest.
A lot of people feel stung by false promises previously so won't have particularly high expectations

@Voltan I think this is the big problem that looms over everything. It really feels like the dev team don't have a clear vision for the game outside of "aggression" and even that seems poorly defined at this point.

Personally speaking, I believe Tekken 8 needs a bit of a reset, but it's like they went too far with Season 2 and now refuse to walk most of it back, so the spiral just continues.

Crazy mismanagement of a game that had insane potential.

@ShogunRok Yeah I fully agree.
I can appreciate that "we recognize this was bad and we're back tracking a whole year and trying again from there" is a hard thing to say and do but at this point it's what a lot of players would be happy with.
I can also appreciate that balancing a huge game like this is an extremely hard task - but again, missing with some of the changes and going entirely in the opposite direction of what people want are very different things.

@Korgon SF 6 is definitely due some kind of update to change things up a bit, but I definitely prefer that it's kept itself consistent over the years and not blown it every time like Tekken has.

Yeah I think it's salvageable, but then again I'm still having fun with the game as it is but a better balance is definitely needed for more fun online.

No wonder Harada-san left, he knew the game was going to *****.

Haven't jumped into T8 in what feels like years. Got it at launch, and it took a long time for the new "refined" controls to sit with me. Seems as soon as I got the hang of it, sweeping changes were made, and I never tried it since.
Still, can't help but feel that their push to make it more 'Street Fighter' like was a mistake, that watered down its very distinctive identity and feeling. Would rather they tried to take it back to basics, where combos were king, and not just locking opponents in heavy smash juggles ad infinitum.

I think i already said what i want to say about this game in previous news. But i'm pretty much agreed with what @Korgon said.

I'm just glad Capcom does the right thing with SF 6 balance update. The proof they did right is with this year EVO Japan where SF 6 broken the records with 7K participants while Tekken 8 and other games only got hundreds. And after Alex released, SF 6 on Steam got more than 72K active players, a bit more than season 1 numbers.

I think Bamco can learn a thing or two from how Capcom handle SF 6 balance.