There’s never a bad time to get free stuff, especially free money — even if it’s just a premium game currency.
Tekken 8 players can now pick up a nice helping of free Tekken Coins as part of Bandai Namco’s apology to owners of the game.
Starting today, October 29, through November 26, players can receive 500 Tekken Coins as soon as they log in.
That’s the equivalent of $5 USD, which can be used in the Tekken Shop to buy premium in-game items — although it’s not quite enough to purchase the premium fight pass since that is 600 coins.
Players can also get a Tekken 30th anniversary hoodie for all characters free in the store now too after the Version 1.09.01 update.
The coins come as part of an apology from Bamco for how the company handled the Genmaji Temple stage DLC situation when Heihachi released.
Many players were surprised / confused when the new arena wasn’t free or included in the Year 1 Pass considering the beach stage that came alongside Lidia wasn’t an extra charge — though it was never stated to be part of the pass before.
Since the stage was priced at 500 coins, this basically gives players who bought it a refund plus some free currency for everyone else.
Owners of the Year 1 Pass will also receive the next DLC stage coming this Winter as well.
Bandai Namco had to make another announcement this week removing and banning a player from the Tekken World Tour Finals for breaking the rules.