With any online fighting game, there’s always the concern of disconnecting players. For example, some players disconnect due to bad internet connections, but most are plug pullers, meaning they either yack the ethernet connection from their console or PC or power off the PC altogether. This is something that has been plaguing Tekken 8, and the Tekken 8 team has mentioned they will be addressing this.
During a recent Tekken Talk live stream, Tekken 8 Project Chief Director Katsuhiro Harada, Game Director Kohei Ikeda (Nakatsu), and Producer Michael Murray laid down the plans to encourage players to stop ragequiting and killing their internet connection. While they are currently in the early stages, it has been mentioned that players who are purposing killing their internet connection due to losing will risk being banned from Tekken 8 for life. 
The team is compiling a list and placing players known to ragequit on it, and while they still need to formulate the actual plan, they will be looking to ban those players. It won’t be a lifetime ban the first time, but a few days. However, if this behavior continues, then a harsher penalty will be applied. The team is serious about the enjoyment of Tekken 8, and they understand that people who ragequit due to losing are hampering that enjoyment.
More news on the plan to handle ragequitters will be coming later. The team needs to be 100% sure about this so they don’t experience any legal repercussions while enacting this plan.
I’m not sure why this isn’t handled the way Netherrealm handles this with Mortal Kombat 1. For those unfamiliar with that process, for anyone who ragequitters, the other player gets a win. It also shows that the disconnection rate will impact their stats and perform a hilarious finishing move on themselves. Look up “Quatality.”
During the livestream, it was brought up why Tekken 8 does not have a tournament mode, which is something the Tekken community has wondered about. The Tekken team mentioned they looked at the data from Tekken 7 and noticed that not many people took advantage of the tournament mode in that game. As such, they decided not to put it into the game.
However, they have stated that while Tekken 8’s tournament mode doesn’t exist, the team is looking for other ideas, such as a 3 vs. 3, 5 vs. 5 mode, or something else. The Tekken 8 team asks that if you have any ideas, you submit them to the team via Twitter account.
Tekken 8 is available for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam). Check out our review of Tekken 8, which we think is the best fighting game that has been revealed these past few months.
