Tek 8 Director Katsuhiro Harada has revealed that the “silly threats” sent to him and other members of the Tekken 8 development team by some alleged fans are having a significant impact not only on morale, but also on costs and even the inclusion of some characters.
The news came via a lengthy Twitter thread in which Harada shared an example of a “silly” threat in which the player said that if Eddy wasn’t included in Teck 8‘s lineup, he would “hit (Harada) with a flaming hammer”. The player even tagged Harada in the reply.
Harada revealed that even jokes can be problematic, causing “everyone (in the fighting game community) to suffer the following losses”.
Referring to the example he included, Harada said: “The event organizer overreacts and increases security, which increases operating costs and increases the burden on the players attending the event. ask to cancel my event.” participation in the event.”
But that is not everything. Harada went on to add that “founders, board members and lawyers don’t like to be intimidated,” so when they get threats — “jokingly” or otherwise — they even ask Harada to remove characters or features from the game, even if he feels that they “should have been included in the game in the first place”.
Harada says this is more likely to happen if “the person making these threats uses the word ‘we’ instead of ‘me’ to represent the fans”.
“A lot of them don’t understand this. I don’t follow the opinion of those who use ‘we’ when expressing their opinion. It’s up to the development team to decide whether the opinion is a majority or a minority, and the person who has the opinion says: ‘Everyone around me says so!’ (maximum 5-6 people around me) is irrelevant.
“Behaving outrageously, repeating these words and actions, or false information and hoaxes, or threats, will quickly decrease the motivation of the development staff, and as a result, the requests of enthusiasts will fall far short of being realized,” concluded he. .
When people make these silly threats, I and everyone at FGC suffer the following losses (see attached picture).—(1) The event organizer overreacts and increases security, which increases operating costs and burden on the players who attend the event increases . Worst case… pic.twitter.com/21dfMItVKeAugust 10, 2023
Did you know six unannounced characters from Tekken 8′s roster were leaked during the closed network tests? While the first Teck 8 CNT was exclusive to PS5 owners, another test – this time open to players on Steam – gave dataminers the ability to use a tool called Cheat Engine.
This is downloadable by anyone and allows the user to scrub the memory of games to reveal hidden content or even, in some cases, change the game to give players more resources, health or ammo.
Thanks to Cheat Engine, PC players could download the copy of Teck 8 and scrub its memory and data for unannounced content. While not all games work with Cheat Engine, players are especially lucky with single player Steam games and that’s how we were able to see some of them Teck 8the roster is ahead of schedule.
While the release date is yet to be confirmed, Tekken 8 will be available to play on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.