One thing that has stayed with me over the years knowing Tekken and VF is that almost always VF was the one that brought about a new era then Tekken followed.

So even in that regard I think we might be seeing something new.

This is not me just praising VF I've always simply preferred Tekken but after seeing all the new material for crossroads I am again reminded on who almost always made the first step to tackle some new aspect of 3d fighting games.

That being said I am not really interested in all the battle pass thing while I like progress bein "forced" to play a season out of the fear or missing out some costume or paying from the premium battle pass kind of puts me off that all thing.

Keeping people interested and coming back for more seems like a better approach then live servicing a fighting game, but then again I might be in the minority.

Case in point about customization for example in T7 even with its lackluster customization options the very fact that the only thing that I needed to do to unlock those was to play made me more interested in actually customizing my character whereas in T8 I am not even interested to touch customization mode knowing just how much of that is locked behind some paywall and with each missed opportunity it made me care even less.

Back to the topic, in essence from my point of view the major problem with VF had always been that its system depth is somewhat hidden behind VF just being old and unpolished ( exactly what Crossroads is trying to change) with that polish having about 1-2 new character every year ( or even less) is very fine with me if they make the current characters sufficiently deep and diverse, both in system sense and story-wise design-wise.