If you read yesterday's Tekken 6 review, where I go on for a bit about how the online part of the game falls somewhere between "unpleasant" and "unplayable," then you might be interested in this update. We received this note from the game's publisher today...

Hello,
 
To improve the online game experience for players of TEKKEN® 6, NAMCO BANDAI Games is developing a downloadable update which will be available as soon as it has passed rigorous testing procedures.
 
More details regarding the content of the update and the timing of its release will be announced shortly.
 
This is separate from the online co-op Scenario Campaign mode update which is scheduled for release this winter.
 
Thanks for playing TEKKEN 6, and keep on fighting.
 
- NBGA PR

If you read yesterday's Tekken 6 review, where I go on for a bit about how the online part of the game falls somewhere between "unpleasant" and "unplayable," then you might be interested in this update. We received this note from the game's publisher today...

Hello,
 
To improve the online game experience for players of TEKKEN® 6, NAMCO BANDAI Games is developing a downloadable update which will be available as soon as it has passed rigorous testing procedures.
 
More details regarding the content of the update and the timing of its release will be announced shortly.
 
This is separate from the online co-op Scenario Campaign mode update which is scheduled for release this winter.
 
Thanks for playing TEKKEN 6, and keep on fighting.
 
- NBGA PR

That sounds like a step in the right direction for Tekken 6. I may even buy it if they get the net code to the right level.

If the patch was substantial, would the game get re-reviewed? Or, does the site only review the game as is?

"Good."
 
I died of laughter just now.

I haven't picked this up yet due to the sucky online, so "good" is really all that is needed to be said of the matter :P

Would improved multiplayer be enough to bump it up to 4*?

I played over 60 matches online since Tekken 6 was released and very few of them were laggy.

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If the patch was substantial, would the game get re-reviewed? Or, does the site only review the game as is?

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If the patch was substantial, would the game get re-reviewed? Or, does the site only review the game as is?

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Rigorous testing, eh?  Well, if the retail on-shelves product went through rigorous testing as well, then I question this testing!

No one has clarified to me as to how there are mixed comments on the online play...
 
Some say it's fine, others say it's terrible. Which one is it?

 I've played over 40 online matches and only one of them have had any noticeable lag at all. 

Thank God for that. Tekken 6 has the best fighting yet so it was crushing to discover how unplayable the online was. Thankfully I have people to fight offline but still...

i played 4 and they were so bad i left online for good...
 
tell me when the patch is out.

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If the patch was substantial, would the game get re-reviewed? Or, does the site only review the game as is?

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Fingers crossed that this addresses the latency issues!

That's some good news to hear.  :)

i am now going to buy this game

I already decided to pick this up anyways, since i have a group of friends who are into Tekken. But this news is definitely a relief. Maybe Namco isn't so bad all the time.

I didn't get to online playing yet, just going through Scenario Campaign atm. Is online really that bad?

I've clocked over 400 matches online... Jeff's assessment is pretty much the reality; the process goes like this: select your character for online - wait a few seconds while it processes .... then maybe one third of the time you get a network error message and are kicked back to the online lobby. In the event you get paired with someone, there is maybe ten percent chance that there is hardly any noticeable issue with timing lag. The majority of the time the game is just different; playing online does not provide you nearly as much reaction time, and you have to enter combinations sooner to connect. Maybe twenty percent of the time the match will die halfways through. And oh yeah, my personal favorite- when I hit "lucky" to get to the second level of bonus roulette, I get a network error 100% of the time that makes PSN think that I disconnected, so it penalizes my record by taking away the win and marking it as a loss. Thanks.

This is a sign that the game was rushed to meet a certain release date. I just don't understand why so many devs still don't polish a game properly before it releases. 
Whats the point of trying to sell something early if it means people aren't going to buy it because its a broken piece of shit?   They should have delayed it, fixed the online, then released, wa-bam; better reviews, more sales.

Weird, the game should have better online stability, as Soul Caliber wasn't bad.  This patch should have also been ready at day 0, as well.

I'm still trading it when Modern Warfare 2 comes out, this is something that should have been fixed before the game shipped.  No excuse.  It was delayed a freaking long time to begin with.  I won't be buying another Tekken game unless it gets godly reviews (and I've bought each one since Tekken 3). 
 
Scenario Campaign is just not well designed, and the load times were extremely annoying.  Not good enough for me.

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If the patch was substantial, would the game get re-reviewed? Or, does the site only review the game as is?

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So I'll wait...