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[Draugoth]

Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada confirmed that the next main installment in the Tekken franchise will not include the anti-piracy software Denuvo.

In a post on the social media platform X (spotted by PCGamer), Harada confirmed that the development team will not introduce Denuvo "or anything else" into Tekken 8. Harada made the statement after a now-deleted post pointed out that Tekken 8's End User License Agreement on Steam mentions Denuvo is being used under the third-party software category.

"[T]his EULA is probably simply a copy/paste of TEKKEN7 or something..." Harada posted. "Anyway, I've no plans to introduce Denuvo or anything else in TEKKEN8, so stop your tedious allergic reactions to every single thing & sit quietly (sit the hell down)."

 

[Fake]

Well, after DEnuvo kill their previous game in perfomance to the point that even he adressed in his twitter.

 

[64gigabyteram]

Makes sense too. Pirating a fighting game means no access to online, so are you really getting the full tekken 8 experience when you can't even play with other people? You're eventually going to get bored of fighting with bots.

Street Fighter 6 had denuvo, but I can better understand that considering that the game also had a much more fully fledged singleplayer mode.

 

[NeverYouMind]

This news combined with everything shown off really makes me want to buy Tekken 8 at launch for some reason...

 

[//DEVIL//]

If there is a game that needs one it's this one sadly.

Performance hit won't affect a game like this. But piracy will. Especially when someone is in to play the story and few matches with his friends / roommate or whatever.


But, I hope I am wrong and it sell lots on PC.

It seems they are asking for a big % cut in order to have it and Namco said fuck it not worth it.

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

What a gigachad. Might get the game out of principle

 

[Clintizzle]

Will the game have any players tho?