In our Tekken 8 chat with franchise boss Katsuhiro Harada, he mentioned that there will be enforcements applied to the game to combat “pluggers” (players who pull the plug when they’re about to lose to avoid incurring a lose in their record). While the dev team has already issued bans, it seems they will also be rolling out the “pluggers purgatory” when we get a new update this coming week!

This was revealed by the studio in the latest Tekken Talk, where Harada and the dev team talked about putting pluggers in the same boat by having them compete against one another. Alongside that, the dev team will also continue account suspensions after April, and the studio has even relayed the infractions people can do in order to get their account suspended.

Harada also revealed the Tekken 8 character usage rate in online matches for rank Tekken God and above, which should give players an idea on the characters most often picked for high rank play.

In the same stream, the developers also revealed that Tekken 8 will be getting a Battle Pass called the Fight Pass, which isn’t sitting well with gamers.

In case you didn’t know, there’s an update set to be released this April 2. Thankfully, we don’t have to wait on what’s going to change, as the complete Tekken 8 update 1.03.01 patch notes are already available.

Thanks, Schnatch!