Harada thinks free-to-play will be valuable option for Tekken, fighting games
Whenever a new way of monetizing or releasing a product comes around there are always long periods where some of the biggest names in a market will sit back and watch. That is what is happening right now for fighting games with free-to-play models, though that doesn’t mean big names like Tekken aren’t keeping tabs on what is going on.
While attending a Tekken 8 preview event (all Dot Esports travel expenses to the event were paid for by Bandai Namco) series director Katsuhiro Harada and producer Michael Murray gave Dot some insight into the current game’s development and how things within the industry may have impacted the series.