Tekken 7 releases June 2nd

[The Fury]

 

Hiku said:

As for the Season Pack, I'm not sure what's in it but I imagine it will be new characters.

And to be honest, I don't agree with Harada's previous policy on no character, stage or move DLC's.
Because that never meant that you'd get extra characters for free. It meant you got none. The characters we got in Tag 2 were all under the initial development budget. But when players asked for new characters after those were out some months later, in particular Eliza, Harada responded that they could not add her to Tekken Tag 2 because it would cost them money to implement her into the game. And since he decided there would be no paid character DLC, they would not make a profit on that investment. That to me is not a good business model for fighting games. Because these games can be appealing for longer periods of time, and players may want additional support and updates for the game, rather than buying an entierly new one. For example, Street Fighter 4 saw sseveral upgrades over the course of 6 or 7 years, and that worked out really well.

I find it bad to release character as paid DLC in fighting games in general. The whole purpose of these games is the characters to fight with, locking them off just seems wrong. KI is free and so far the SFV new characters have been free (tigh?) but the latter has it's own issues.

I can understand your point on Harada's policy, previously he said any DLC was free for all (obviously with things budgetted for as you mention) but Eliza was made and developed for Revolution as an incentive to get you to play it, I think. So she was made for that not Tag 2, developing her and releasing her for an 2 year old game (at the time) would have cost money. 

I don't mind DLC and updates it's just the idea of locking characters behind paywalls, hails back to the on disc DLC crap that Marvel vs Capcom 3 pulled. But i'm just moaning for moaning sake, really looking forward to the game.