Tekken 8 releases in two weeks but that hasn’t stopped Bandai Namco from announcing the first DLC for the game.

Longtime Tekken character Eddy will be the games first DLC to release in Spring 2024 and will be followed by 3 more characters during the year.

Maybe I’m just being old fashioned but if DLC is announced before a game launches isn’t that just an admission that the game isn’t finished?

I’m a firm believer that any DLC that is announced prior to launch or worse, is included on the disc but locked until you hand over more cash should be included in the full game.

  • DrMcRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is unrealistic. The process from start to a fully finished character is huge, and if you didn’t start until the game shipped then you’d be bitching that there was too big a gap with no interesting updates after the game came out.

    Also a lot of the people working on this content won’t be the same people working on the last remaining bugs. As you get closer to release, you have a smaller and smaller group of people fixing things otherwise it causes too much churn and you start introducing more bugs.