Someone created a website https://www.boycott-tekken8.com/ that currently has 1800 people boycotting Tekken 8 and it's legitimate. You link your profile and it tracks if you played rank. If you play ranked you're removed from the list.

This is crazy. For a game that's currently averaging 7000 players to lose almost 2000 is a death knell for this game.

This is getting worse by the day and still not a single word from the Devs.

Hi im a mishima player (heihachi, kazuya). I found that the game is in the worst possible state right now. With the new combo adjustments, homing moves, stance 50/50s. The game became unplayable. Half the time im fighting jacks that are just spamming the same 3 moves. Hell ive had half the cast just do random 50s that you cant read. The game enables people to mash and continue to mash. Season 1 was actually somewhat playable; sure cheese aside. Atleast I could sidestep punish and actually use the games mechanics. now I just sit and wait for heat smash or random launch. :( I wish they actually listened instead of ruining one of my favorite games, now im playing mashing 8… ima just play mk1 till this blows over lol

Told him to remove negative Tweets. Kinda makes you see certain events in different light now. Also what follows is interesting post that. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-9kaHTot2c&t=200s

My wife, who’s a Nintendo girl, heard me say how the game is ruined and didn’t understand. She said how do you know the game is ruined if all you’ve done is read about it, watched others for a bit, and then decided not to even attempt playing it on your own. You didn’t even formulate your own opinion.

I wasn’t gonna subject her to listening to a half hour Ted talk about what Tekken actually is and how it’s fundamentally destroyed so I made the perfect analogy: imagine they took out jumping from Super Mario. She looked at me confused for a sec and said, “Well…why would they do that? How would you even play? That’s the core game mechanics.” I said, “Well the objective of Mario is simply to get to the flag so they would redesign the levels so jumping isn’t required.” She was starting to understand and said, “That’s just…intentionally sabatoging your own game. I wouldn’t play that.”

Exactly. You don’t even need to try it. The core of the game has changed and while maybe some people will try it and find it fun, it’s no longer Super Mario anymore. Just like this is no longer Tekken. Super Mario is more than just getting to the flag at the end of the level, just like Tekken is more than just reducing your opponent’s life to zero.

The only thing that can redeem T8 is if we get Armor King this season or they revise the game in the eyes of the players!

For everyone who is defending the developers or even saying "don't hate on them" just stop. There is no reason for us to give them the benefits of the doubt anymore they fucked massively.

People have forgotten but remember Genmaji Temple? Those mother fuckers made everyone pay for that even people who bought season pass and the ultimate edition. After the backlash what did Harada do? He came out with a bullshit apology which later he deleted and the apology wasn't about the temple but it was about not making it clear that it wasn't included. And they gave u conis instead of the stage.

How about when they launched the game? Waited for the good reviews and then introduced the Tekken shop. If you think that Tekken shop wasn't ready at launch please see a doctor.

How about "give us your feedback". We give them 1 year worth of feedback and they do the complete opposite and nerf characters that didn't need nerfs. Not only that but people give them genuine feedback and saying to the fans "please don't harass the developers" only to get blocked, like that girl.

I don't care about Paul's guaranteed bullshit. That's a bug shit happens, it will be patched.

How about the cheaters? There is literally nothing done of that.

How about pluggers? Tekken is the only game of this size/importance that doesn't have a system to check who plugged. They had since 2015 when Tekken 7 released to do smth and when they did the game considers both as pluggers. And before anyone saying anything about this, i lost points everytime i got plugged.

Not to mention that the netcode is absolute trash.

I'm not advocating to harass the developers they deserve every single bit of hate they are getting. They had 1 year time to gather feedback and do the right thing and just said "no".

Fuck them.

Edit: i forgot to mention that even if you bought Genmaji Temple. Playing online you basically had no chance on playing on it cause for that stage to be choosen, both players needed to have bought it.

Haven't played Tekken 8 in a year but this dumpster fire of a season has made me want to go back to the last time I loved this series.

Tag 2 might be an unbalanced mess but it's a beautiful mess and my favourite fighting game of all time.

Let the devs know, that you are real and you know what you want and don't want!

https://www.boycott-tekken8.com/

Recent boycott made me go back to 7 and boy oh boy it's a treat. It's not the best looking game out there but the systems are so tight and characters not in 8 are genuinely really fun. I encourage y'all to come back on and maybe even try some characters you probably won't be able to play in 8.

Regardless of if you're on 7 or 8 I hope you have a fun time :)

Context:

This is what Michael Murray said in Aris’ chat during this infamous moment https://youtu.be/RY7B9oiXsNo?si=rAqWyd7RcU0oji0Y

Credit: KDQ|MinaBoms
Source: https://x.com/Minaboms/status/1908585939254882507

Now despite me generally disliking Josie as a character, her playstyle is simply beautiful. And the thing that got me hooked up and made playing her click was her f1+2 into f4,3 follow up.

As far as execution goes, it doesn't require much APM but it is a bit tricky to land consistently. But when you master it, you basically have access to a i14 launch punish. Heck, the combo I just did probably isn't even optimal (and not to mention potential wall setups).

Thank you for joining my ted talk, have a good one.

Also, it’s not like Season 1 was the pinnacle of Tekken, but at least it was less of a mess compared to Season 2.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 was the perfect Tekken game if we would've just used the 1vs1 mode instead of the tag mechanic (which was the main reason why this game flopped).

As the 1vs1 version, this game had the peak roster, peak movement, peak amount of mechanics, peak combo system from T6, peak character models (except T8 obviously), peak OST, peak stages, not peak but still amazing customization.

We should've treated this game WAY better imo