The upcoming "Tekken 8" recently underwent a closed network test (CNT) that included a PC version, which of course meant that the game was quickly cracked, data-mined, and played beyond the time developer Namco Bandai had hoped. The publisher then issued a statement acknowledging that some players had accessed the game beyond the CNT, warning that unauthorized downloading and distribution was illegal, and threatening to ban any accounts found to have accessed the game after the CNT ended.

Katsuhiro Harada, director and lead organizer of the Tekken series, decided to take matters into his own hands, apart from making an official statement. Like Clouseau wearing sunglasses, the developer followed Twitch around, looking for streams of gameplay after CNT was no longer available. He thought.

The full text of the stream is as follows: Harada entered the chat at 8 hours and 12 minutes.

Crash was playing Tekken 8 CNT. The crowd went wild as "Hello Cracker" was Harada's opening chant (Harada meant "software cracker," but decided to interpret "cracker" in a racial sense for comedic effect). Harada sat and absorbed the chat for a few minutes, warning the streamers to stop. But this could lead to all sorts of misunderstandings, so it's best to end it." The Twitch operator contacted me."

Several people, including Joe Krush, questioned whether he was the real Harada. Harada replied, "Do you think it's a fake?"

"Okay, let me show you what I can do.

Harada then pointed to this Twitter proclamation, "Check my tweets now," to the core:

"TLJoeCrush, check this tweet. Check this tweet.

Upon seeing the tweet, Crush said, "Oh no," and soon thereafter logged out of CNT and lost access.

In other words, Crash was not using a cracked version of the game. He was in a sort of limbo after the CNT was supposed to be shut down, and he ended up hanging around the server longer than he should have. Harada seemed to realize this was a misunderstanding and deleted the tweet threatening a "permanent ban" and instead wrote, "Don't worry (about the ban). It was fun, thanks!"

Well, it's not every day you get your ass handed to you in such a humorous way, and by the big bookies. Except that Joe Clash is clean, and the important thing here is how Harada stepped from that unbeatable opening, like Robocop on a mugger, to the threat of a show of his power, to the (rather worrisome for an iron fist pro) prospect of a permanent ban! That is. Harada may have made a mistake here, but clearly he needed to vent about the CNT in "Tekken 8" being pulled off like that.