The TEKKEN SHOP, a new in-game store for TEKKEN 8 that allows players to spend real money on various cosmetics, including brand-new UT x TEKKEN collaboration customization items, is now available with the release of Patch 1.02.01, Bandai Namco has announced. Players do not seem to be happy with the shop, with some blaming Bandai Namco of “hiding” it to ensure that microtransactions weren’t figured into reviews for the game and/or other reasons.
TEKKEN COIN packages:
- 500 TEKKEN COINS: $4.99
- 1050 TEKKEN COINS: $9.99
- 2120 TEKKEN COINS: $19.99
- 3210 TEKKEN COINS: $29.99
- 5500 TEKKEN COINS: $49.99
Patch highlights:
- TEKKEN SHOP implementation
- The TEKKEN SHOP is now open! In the TEKKEN SHOP, you can buy various customization items, such as legacy character costumes and avatar skins of specific characters. New content will be added to the shop monthly with the latest trends of the King of Iron Fist Tournament!
- Purchasable items in the TEKKEN SHOP include both free and paid items. Paid items can be purchased with TEKKEN COINS obtained in each platform’s store.
- In-game UT x TEKKEN collaboration items
- To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the TEKKEN Series, UT t-shirts corresponding to their real-life counterparts sold in UNIQLO stores will be available for free in the TEKKEN SHOP. These customization items are available for both playable characters (2 types) and avatar customization (1 type).
- Measures against players discovered cheating in RANKED MATCH
- High ranking players who were reported multiple times and found to have been cheating were removed from the LEADERBOARD, and their ranks have been reset to BEGINNER.
- Feature improvements
- In the TEKKEN FIGHT LOUNGE, matchmaking after finishing a match with the Match Anywhere option selected will continue without needing to select it again.
- In the TEKKEN FIGHT LOUNGE, My Profile can now be selected when accessing the customization shop’s staff or terminal.
- The status of members in a GROUP in a PLAYER MATCH is now displayed.
- Maximum number of consecutive wins displayed increased from 99 to 999.
A look at the TEKKEN SHOP:
Care to fight in style?
— TEKKEN (@TEKKEN) February 29, 2024
The #TEKKEN Shop is now open in #TEKKEN8 ✨
The first available items are:
👕 UT×TEKKEN free customization items
👗 4 Legacy alternative costumes
👯 4 Avatar Skins
🎆 8 Fireworks
The TEKKEN Shop will be updated monthly with new items! pic.twitter.com/7ibwTNsTcM
Critics are saying:
- “Harada the issue many of us have is that the existence of this shop was kept hidden until a month after launch. If we were told it was coming before buying the game and you gave this reasoning, people would be less up in arms about it.”
- “…Tekken 8 is already a $70 title with a $100 deluxe edition a $300 collectors edition, and a season pass at launch…”
- “…obviously no one is forcing me to buy. But it bothers me a little that everything you used to have for free on Tekken 7, now on Tekken 8 you have to pay for”
Katsuhiro Harada has defended the shop:
Development costs are now 10 times more expensive than in the 90’s and more than double or nearly triple the cost of Tekken 7. Even the Fight Lounge servers are costly to maintain. In the past there weren’t so many specs and there wasn’t online. Plus they didn’t have such high resolution and high definition. Now, So many people want the game to run and be supported for a long time. It costs money to continually update the game for that reason. However, he probably only keeps good memories of the old games he experienced as a boy and does not pay attention to these changing times and increasing costs. The economic situation and everything else is changing. If we simply do nothing as he suggests, the game will simply stop running in a few months. I think that is what he wants. So there is no point in talking to him about these realities. He wants us to stop economic activity and stop updating and supporting the game.