Tekken 8 Comes Under Fire For Using Dark Patterns In Its Cash Shop

Tekken 8 has come under fire from fans following the introduction of a cash shop in-game that utilizes dark patterns.

[anast]

The game is for whales now.

[CrimsonWing69]

Hey, you feed them money with microtransactions and this is what you get.

[Kakashi Hatake]

Games are expensive and people are loosing jobs in the industry. Devs have a right to charge for DLC. It's not needed to play the game. Play a play to win game on your cellphone and then see if you feel the same in this situation.

[Huey_My_D_Long]

Look, I'm still going to play tekken 8, but I think its fair to call out unfair practices, like the dark pattern and only mentioning and releasing cash shop after reviews and people bought in. I still agree DLC is important for cash revenue for developers, but they dont have to have as exploitative practices, like phone games.
I won't play a to win game, I just don't play those type of games...and well its understandable if others feel the same way about tekken, even I personally don't.

DLC and cash shops are here to stay though, As much as N4G bitches about it, the money talks louder...I mean that is what happens where infinite money glitch is the prime motivator for a system.

[Kakashi Hatake]

I've been addicted to a pay to win phone game for about 5 years. Being in about 5k, I guess I see the situation differently. I just don't see 5 dollars for an outfit as a big deal if it's something the player actually wants. Most will just stick with the default outfits and customization. It's not being forced on anyone..

[Killa78]

If a game is going to add cosmetics, they should be fairly earnable in game and have reasonable prices for those that want to pay.

I don't understand these predatory practices that ruin your goodwill.

[-Foxtrot]

This is what games are going to do now, hold off their awful MTs until after the reviews come out and then put them in.

Where's the shitty "It's only cosmetics" people that think these things are nothing and won't spiral out of control?

[-Gespenst-]

Maybe I'm missing something here, and I'm not trying to defend microtrasactions etc., but if you do the math, buying 5 costumes (when the minimum amount of Tekken coins you can buy at once is 500 for 5 dollars) ultimately costs 20 dollars, same as it would if you could specify exactly how many coins you wanted to buy (assuming 1 dollar = 100 coins), i.e. 400 coins x 5 = 20 dollars.

Edit: Realised after posting that this pattern may push people to spend 20 in order to actually get their full money's worth, instead of just spending 4 once. So yeah, pretty predatory.

[Amplitude]

This generation is easily the least fun and least interesting one we've had in my 30 years of life and it blows my mind that people spend a hundred dollars on these heartless commercialized corporate wallet-drains.

This is why I've very much stopped buying new AAA releases and am going back and replaying PS3 and 360 games at 4K in an emulator. So many hundreds of games that are so much better than any of this. People seem to forget it wasn't that long ago when games were lower budget, more fun, made by smaller teams that really cared about the projects and were a one time purchase without ****ing seasons and cosmetics and daily login bonuses and always online requirements and predatory point-based pricing like this. I've refunded games after seeing the main menu a few times now. I could barely figure out how to get to the CoD Campaign in - i think it was Cold War? Good god that menu just harassed you worse than a broke stripper. It's really ruined gaming for me.

Shout out to single player Sony first-party exclusives, HiFi Rush, PC indies and the majority of VR gaming for doing better. It sucks how rare non-evil publishers are now though.