Tekken 8 Recreation Director Katsuhiro Harada has blocked high professional participant Arslan Ash on X (previously Twitter), infuriating the FGC.
Earlier on April twenty first, Arslan Ash shared a screenshot of Harada’s X bio, which confirmed that he’d been blocked from seeing Harada’s tweets. Arslan then put a bunch of query marks to specific his confusion.
Harada Responds to Backlash From Tekken 8 FGC
Arslan Ash is not any stranger to criticizing Tekken 8, particularly after builders made questionable adjustments in Season 2. Now, the esports neighborhood believes that Arslan was blocked by Harada for persevering with to voice frustrations with the sport.
Harada has lashed out at critics up to now, together with followers who voiced disdain for Anna’s new look. Harada accused one fan of ‘spreading toxicity’ locally and ‘disrespecting’ different Anna followers.
This time, nevertheless, the FGC felt that Harada had blocked the flawed particular person — an Evo champion who is taken into account probably the greatest within the scene. The neighborhood famous that the sport have to be ‘cooked’ if builders are blocking the ‘GOAT of the sport.’ It wasn’t precisely instilling religion within the recreation.
Mentioned one fan: “Harada and Murray are straight-up sabotaging their very own recreation at this level. Blocking the very best Tekken participant, zero communication, and ignoring actual points. As a substitute of listening, they’re shutting folks down. It’s embarrassing hey Namco y’all f—ed up large time.”
Added one other: “The face of Tekken being blocked by the top of Tekken. Insane, particularly if you realise that Arslan might legit cease enjoying Tekken and go professional in [City of the Wolves] extraordinarily rapidly, particularly with [Esports World Cup] not far away.”
In response to the continued backlash on X, Harada responded to the drama in a tweet. He claimed he by no means meant to dam Arslan Ash, including that it was an ‘operational error.’ Harada then acknowledged that he spoke to the professional in a DM.
Whereas this could possibly be the case, Arslan Ash and different Tekken 8 gamers are clearly sad with the state of the sport and received’t cease talking out about it.
