I have been playing since Tekken 2 and to be honest with you although I have big gripes with the game if we had a neutral score in Steam I would still recommend you this game.
Tekken 8 is really pricy for europe and monetized in a money grubby manner. The MAP DLC, the Battlepass, but my biggest problem, the in map ads. Although the in map ads have no defense, The Map DLC has been adressed by the devs and they gave a compensation for it, while the Battlepass always rewards you with more Tekken Coins than its cost, and its not that hard (However I think its prizes are not that good either.)
What I want to focus on is the gameplay. And As someone who saw Tekken at its most basic AND Tekken at its most complex (TTT2) I love how welcoming to both casuals and pros, this game is. I am not great at Tekken, I think I am green or yellow rank? But I always have players better or worse than me that I can play against in online. I always have the greatest single player mode of any fighting game ever created: Super Ghost Mode available too. ( Not to mention how overly cheesily yet absolutely amazing Story Modes were) I love how the graphics, one of the single greatest achivements of the biggest Tekken Games (T3 and T5) are finally up to par and look incredible. (Compared to T7 which geniunely looked worse than TTT2) As someone who hates grapples (buffed) and loves parries (nerfed), I can STILL say I love the new techs and mechanics. I hate panic buttons yet I love how much opportunity Heat Mode creates, I love how Heat Smashes make you feel cool without you actually taking the game serious. I love the community that keeps creating around games like Tekken WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE A NOOB. Where you can go in ranked and not get your ahh handed to you by a skilled af 11 year old who does a %80 combo on you. Most of all I love that there are many things that I don't know or outright know wrongly about the game because I am only a green rank. I have so many more good things to say, such as Customization (without the paid skins :( ) or Jukebox (which doesn't have the Story Tracks)
As you can see every "good" comes with a lil paranthesis "bad". So in Tekken 8's general case the good are the developers who make and balance the game (while the publishers are the mones who make one of the worst monetizations ever) Let your voice be heard so we get some solutions like the last 500 coins but please don't review bomb this amazing game so hard that we stop getting new players.
-A fellow Asuka and soon to be Lee main

I have been playing since Tekken 2 and to be honest with you although I have big gripes with the game if we had a neutral score in Steam I would still recommend you this game. Tekken 8 is really pricy for europe and monetized in a money grubby manner. The MAP DLC, the Battlepass, but my biggest problem, the in map ads. Although the in map ads have no defense, The Map DLC has been adressed by the devs and they gave a compensation for it, while the Battlepass always rewards you with more Tekken Coins than its cost, and its not that hard (However I think its prizes are not that good either.) What I want to focus on is the gameplay. And As someone who saw Tekken at its most basic AND Tekken at its most complex (TTT2) I love how welcoming to both casuals and pros, this game is. I am not great at Tekken, I think I am green or yellow rank? But I always have players better or worse than me that I can play against in online. I always have the greatest single player mode of any fighting game ever created: Super Ghost Mode available too. ( Not to mention how overly cheesily yet absolutely amazing Story Modes were) I love how the graphics, one of the single greatest achivements of the biggest Tekken Games (T3 and T5) are finally up to par and look incredible. (Compared to T7 which geniunely looked worse than TTT2) As someone who hates grapples (buffed) and loves parries (nerfed), I can STILL say I love the new techs and mechanics. I hate panic buttons yet I love how much opportunity Heat Mode creates, I love how Heat Smashes make you feel cool without you actually taking the game serious. I love the community that keeps creating around games like Tekken WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE A NOOB. Where you can go in ranked and not get your ahh handed to you by a skilled af 11 year old who does a %80 combo on you. Most of all I love that there are many things that I don't know or outright know wrongly about the game because I am only a green rank. I have so many more good things to say, such as Customization (without the paid skins :( ) or Jukebox (which doesn't have the Story Tracks) As you can see every "good" comes with a lil paranthesis "bad". So in Tekken 8's general case the good are the developers who make and balance the game (while the publishers are the mones who make one of the worst monetizations ever) Let your voice be heard so we get some solutions like the last 500 coins but please don't review bomb this amazing game so hard that we stop getting new players. -A fellow Asuka and soon to be Lee main