Comment on Tekken 8 replaces their entire balance team after disastrous Season 2 update

jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Diablo 2 came out in the year 2000 it has ladder seasons.

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• OrgunDonor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In this context, Tekken and other fighting games have competitive and content seasons. Where over a year winners from large international events earn places in a final, and new characters/stages are released

  After the final there is normally a very large update to the game which comes with new game mechanics and large balance changes, and the start of a content season pass. With enough time before the first tournament kicks off(street fighter is being weird this year though)

  For Tekken that season patch dropped recently but was a massive let down(fuck up) and the community wasn’t happy with it at all.

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• Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pretty much for as long as online games have gotten updates. DOTA kinda codified it with the Battle Pass system but WoW battlegrounds/arena had seasons way before that. They’ll wait and do content/balance updates in chunks and that effects the meta in waves defined as “seasons”.

  It’s everywhere now. It can be weaponized FOMO or a clean way to provide regular novelty without being tied down to legacy content.

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