The second season update of "Iron Fist 8" led to unprecedented criticism in the series, and the development team responded quickly: all the teams responsible for making the S2 season balance patches were replaced, and Team A was recalled.

Although "Iron Fist 8" was widely praised in the early stages of its release, since the S2 season update was launched, many of the content not only failed to achieve the expected effect, but even directly destroyed the basic gameplay of the game, causing the ratings of "Iron Fist 8" to collapse on various platforms.

Despite the urgent release of fix patches and responses from developers, many veteran players are still worried that the direction of the second season is too tilted and may have deviated from the core of the series, which makes people worried whether the existing team still has the ability to save the situation.

The developers of "Iron Fist 8" also acknowledged this and decided to recall the core team that developed the original game.According to producer Katsuhiro Harada, the one responsible for the update of the second season is not the original team, but a brand new balance adjustment team.Now, they have brought the original developers back to their posts and made every effort to repair the game.

"Iron Fist 8" recalls the core development team and saves losses in the second season

For games that continue to operate, it is not uncommon to have problems with a certain version of the update."Apex Heroes" has also fallen into a trough due to major changes in the version design concept, but such a "trough period" is often regarded as part of long-term operations.

But the second season of Iron Fist 8 is different.

This is the worst-rated fighting game update in history, triggering an unprecedented "bad review bombing" on Steam, and thousands of players flocked to the comment section to express their dissatisfaction.Some well-known content creators directly gave up on "Iron Fist 8" and instead played the old version of "Iron Fist" to meet their creative needs.

Players are not playing while scolding, but completely "abandoning" and instead playing other games.This situation is very rare in games that focus on real-time services, and has also prompted developers to release hot patches urgently and apologize publicly.

Now, more than a month after the second season was launched, Katsuhiro Harada has finally confirmed that the development team has been replaced.

"Iron Fist 8 has a great challenge in combat and balance, especially with the new team's responsibility. We have restructured the development structure back to the original members. In addition, the familiar and loved director Nakatsu is now able to check and approve all the combat and balance content in detail (he was busy as the general manager and now can finalize every detail).

The question is: Since the original team is not responsible for the second season, who is doing it?

"Iron Fist 8" was jointly developed by the ontology development team and Arika.Arika has assisted in the development of late content in "Iron Fist 7", and now it seems that most of the work in the second season is likely to be Arika's responsibility.Of course, it is not ruled out that other teams within Bandai took over this part of the work.

It is worth noting that Harada had previously stated that "Iron Fist 9" will be his last work in the series and is scheduled to be released when the next generation console debuts.Judging from his recent social media speeches, the preliminary preparations for "Iron Fist 9" may have been in progress.

But now, the developer who might have been preparing for "Iron Fist 9" was recalled to participate in the restoration of "Iron Fist 8", which also makes people worry that the future direction of the entire series will be affected.