Nintendo isn’t against emulation. They’re against piracy, which Yuzu was facilitating. None of the emulators that don’t have specific support for unreleased games have been touched so far.

That’s generally how it works, yes.

Or it’s the day before March 1.

A buddy of mine gifted me a copy of Helldivers 2 the other day, so I’ve been spending some time spreading Managed Democracy across the galaxy. Mostly going back and forth between Helldivers and The Finals lately.

It’s copyright infringement to do so. No need getting the Beehaw admins in trouble; Google paywall bypassing tools and read away.

I’m glad Project L is going to dethrone every single one of these games.

Yeah, Riot would never add MTX to their games, right?

I wish. I’ll bet Blizzard pays good.

I’m not sure why any of this is a hot take. I get the feeling that most of the people in this thread aren’t even Tekken players, or fighting game players at all.

These games only work with continued funding. If that’s not for you, then that’s totally fine and understandable. But these games require labor, and labor requires payment. And the community is willing and eager to pay.

You wouldn’t work for free would you? Why should anybody expect software developers to?

If they’d announced this before launch, it would’ve been the only thing anyone talked about.

Not really. It’d hardly have been mentioned, at all. MTX are a part of every major fighting game, so it’s hardly a newsworthy tidbit. They’re completely expected in this genre. Any major competitive game that gets developer support after release is going to be funded either by microtransactions or subscriptions. The people who actually play these games know this.

Yeah, I’m sure Blizzard’s really dumping a lot of resources into “shitposting on a Reddit clone with under 30k MAUs”.

Doesn’t it, though? This is what the players wanted, and the industry listened. They asked for support for the game after its release, and the industry said “Sure, but in exchange at least some of you should pay extra”.

This isn’t forced upon anybody. Just because Mazaratis exist doesn’t mean that you have to buy one if you want a car. It only becomes a moral problem if somebody’s choices are circumvented, but that’s not really what’s happening here.

Some people wouldn’t bother with a game at all if they knew there would be this.

Perhaps if this was unusual for the genre. But it’s a AAA fighting game. Anybody who is familiar with the genre knows that MTX is normal and expected, because it’s going to have several years of support from the developers. I’d have a hard time believing that any Tekken fan bought this on the premise of it remaining MTX-free.

I’m not seeing why that’s a problem, if it’s still just cosmetics.

Also, anybody who expected a AAA fighting game to not have cosmetic MTX in 2024 probably isn’t that keen on the fighting game scene to begin with. That’s just how the genre works these days; the players want continuous balance patches as new tech and exploits are discovered, and that comes at a cost. If you think $70 is enough for potentially years of continued support and updates, then you haven’t been keeping up with the economy’s effects on the gaming industry.

I don’t get it, it’s just gonna be skins, right? Pretty much every fighting game has paid skins these days, that’s what funds continued development for balancing and new content.

Unless there’s something really egregious being offered for sale, I don’t see the issue. Cosmetics are one of the few MTX I’m okay with, for the most part.

Been playing a lot of The Finals lately. Normally my time would be spent in Destiny 2, but the current D2 season is gonna last for a looooong time, so I’m not in any hurry to grind it out just yet. But The Finals has absolutely blown me away so far. It can be buggy and unbalanced at times, but it’s so damn fun. Demolishing an entire building to bury the cashout station in rubble and prevent a steal is so satisfying.

Embark has also recently said that they’ve got a lot of updates in the works, so I’m really excited to see how Season 2 plays out.

Your job is automating electrons, and now some automated electrons are threatening your job.

I have to imagine this is similar to how farmers felt when large-scale machinery became widely available.

Fuckin’ A.

This is cringe.

So you’re just confirming that you’re a psychopath/sociopath.

I like how you had to use both terms because you don’t actually know which one is accurate for the absolute fivehead accusations you’re making. Another amazing conclusion from the World’s Smartest Man.

FYI, psychopathy and sociopathy aren’t remotely the same thing. Please, quit taking about things you don’t understand, it’s becoming a bad habit at this point. Literally nobody here is fooled by it and you’re only embarrassing yourself.

So, you may have known this if you played the game or perhaps even spent two minutes researching the thing you’re pretending to be an expert on, but you don’t have to spend money on the game. Like, at all. And other people spending money on the game doesn’t impact you, as a player, because there is no multiplayer.

Anyway, thanks for the live demonstration of my point about informed opinions and such. This concludes the “ridicule” portion, now begins “dismiss”.