George Foster from GamersFTW writes:
When you’re a fan of any long time game series, or simply excited for a game, chances are that you’re going to buy it upon release. Do you give the publisher and retailer your full faith and pre-order, or do you just wait for launch day and hope they have a copy in stock?
A popular Tekken 8 mods website has received a notice of infringement from Bandai Namco, but they're fighting back for the players.
I torrented the game on PC, and now will post the link right on their twitter account ripping them a new asshole and then say now you can't do shit LOL. Leave modders alone. Sooner or later the way the industry is going I will not buy anything anymore, and just take what I want. I'm buying very little now, as it is. The future does not look good at all.
Nope LOL. The game industry is going to get worse before it gets better. Actually I don't even think it will get better which is the sad part. Even if Bandai does not see that link, by me posting it I can influence people who don't know much about torrenting can now maybe get interested and learn about it. 😁
But I do this often, 😁 I'm sure companies must be pissed because they know they are helpless with taking down torrents, and maybe I can teach some people how to do it by posting links, they might take an interest LOL
Why are publishers cracking down on mods all of a sudden? It’s like if you bought a coloring book and then drew over the art and made the art look like something popular. Are the coloring book companies going to pull this sh*t?
Why is industry going more and more full r*tard?
Why? Because they want to nickel and dime customers with cosmetic microtransactions. It's hard when the modders do a better job then them plus at no extra cost.
A lot of it has to do with copyright infringement. Something similar happened with Little Big Planet back in the day. Where Nintendo wanted created levels pulled from the game because people made almost full blown Mario Levels.
Just take the games for free on PC. I'm having no respect lately for any game company. ID Software was the best in terms of modding they wanted you to mod their games, total conversions etc. Now we have shit.
Only a handful of publishers are pro-mods like Bethesda, CDPR, and Larian; the rest either don't care like Sony or anti-mods like Capcom and the extreme being Nintendo-level of BS.
They want you to believe their nonsense about development cost being sky-high and taking weeks/months, and then you have unpaid folks who do this all for free as a community-service and just because they enjoy creating and sharing stuff, and they come out with gorgeous new outfits and skins etc etc, within days.
So free mods expose the BS these companies spout in order to justify their excessive greed.
I believe this started with Tekken 7 when the Elden Ring mod came out. They were shocked by the quality and gave a warning to stop modding the game because people were coming at them asking how to get those characters in the game.
The modders will have to be strategic.
Absolute stupidity. The hell are they even thinking? Damn, this game was looking so good when it was about to launch. Now, it's just been downhill for everything since then.
Popular videos from Tekken 8 mod creators have begun getting struck by Bandai Namco, even getting some channels deleted entirely.
Bandai Namco announced its financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year, related to the period between October and December 2023.
To be fair, they the only ones. Square and other Japanese devs been lacking is quality for a long time and they made up for it in good games.
Capcom, Nintendo, and Atlus are far better than Bandai, and you can't really count FromSoftware as one of Bandai's studios.
@silent yeah I know, i ment to put a few. Example square gives quality to FF, with SO and valkyrie nope. Koei quality been eh but there games are fun. Its not just Japanese though.
Good let’s hope others follow them before the industry get too close to collapsing again.
That's the most insane statement I have ever heard, it's basically saying "from now on we will try to make good games"
I mean, why in the f*ck wasn’t this the priority from the get-go? Now that you see consumers aren’t going to swallow up your dribble for full price you have to make the announcement that you’re focused on making “quality” games now? What a joke.
Quality should always be the focus and that will get you $$$$. Though I have to say Bandai Namco has made some great games but some of their anime stuff could be better quality
These times its like a race between publishers to come up with the worst season pass or pre.order stuff.
Nah, EA is still wearing that crown.
Square Enix with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was the worst
EVERYBODY is bad at preorder businesses. That's why I've stopped buying into this shit 6 years ago. And why Total Biscuit told us it's best not to give in to your impulses for something that may or may not impress you solely based on marketing.