Current Events > R.I.P. Dragon Ball FighterZ

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As the Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour is approaching its climax a growing rain cloud seems to have emerged over the competitive scene.

Multiple events have been shut down with little to no articulated reasoning. Many are turning their attention to Japanese animation studio Toei as the most likely motivator for said shut downs.

Maximilian has produced a video wherein he recaps the recent goings on and then offers a handful of his own thoughts on the matter, recalling somewhat similar situations with Nintendo and Super Smash Bros. Melee a few years back.

Max states that he feels the competitive Dragon Ball FighterZ scene is feeling the effects of this in no small way right now, and that the whole ordeal feels very unfortunate considering just how popular a tournament game DBFZ has become.

Indeed even EVO tournament organizer Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar took to Twitter on Friday to say, "It's sad to see what's happening to the DragonBall FighterZ community. It literally might be a one and done," perhaps implying there's a chance we won't see DBFZ return to the fighting genre's biggest recurring major in 2019.

The hit fighting game of this year, Dragon Ball FighterZ, is running into some issues recently in the esports world. Major tournaments such as EVO Japan and (most recently) Anime Ascension are not running tournaments for the fighter, leaving speculation as to why:

Many fans seem to be pointing the blame at Toei, the license holder for Dragon Ball. For those that arent aware of how protective Toei is, the company once had Japans Embassy write a note to Mexicos Government to prevent an illegal broadcast of Dragon Ball Super from being publicly displayed in Mexico. So the possibility that Toei could be putting the breaks on non-official Dragon Ball FighterZ tournaments to protect their IP, is not surprising.

Whats interesting is this is all happening in the midst of the Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour, Bandai Namcos official esports tour for the fighting game. That tournament series itself is getting some flack due to the fact you need to win a Dragon Ball in the tournament to qualify for the finals. That would be fine if the fact that player Kazunoko did some gatekeeping and won four of the possible seven. This resulted in now four last chance qualifiers happening simultaneously to get some players to fill the finals.

https://www.dualshockers.com/dragon-ball-fighterz-cancel-evo-esports/

Th-thanks Toei. Guess I'll just go back to Street Fighter...
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rip toei
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Japanese companies are notorious for veing overprotective of their IP. BandaiNamco did a really good job with the tournaments.
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Prestoff posted...

Japanese companies are notorious for veing overprotective of their IP. BandaiNamco did a really good job with the tournaments.

*Looks at Nintendo*
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3.5 million copies sold so far gents, what the fuck is wrong with Toei?
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What is their reasoning though?

Better exposure through tournaments means better sales right?
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Many Japanese companies are still stuck in the last millennium and why stuff like this happens.
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Kelystic posted...

What is their reasoning though?

Better exposure through tournaments means better sales right?

Control and liability, they allowed tournaments when BandaiNamco was hosting them because if anything bad were to happen at those tournaments, they can simply make BandaiNamco accountable for it since they have close partnerships with each other. Remember people running this shit are businessmen that dont understand the gaming (or this case the fgc) culture.
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Kelystic posted...

What is their reasoning though?

Better exposure through tournaments means better sales right?

Toei isn't getting any money from this. Bandai Namco bought the rights to use DB characters from Toei. Then, they hired ASW to develop the game. Bandai Namco gets all the revenue from retail sales. Toei got their money when Bamco bought the rights from them. However, all these events and tournaments being hosted is making everyone money but Toei. Toei can't go after Bamco because they bought the rights to use these characters so they're going after everyone else. Toei is probably issuing a licensing fee to use the DBZF IP but no one wants to pay the fee because it costs so much.

Basically, Toei is saying pay up or cancel the tournaments so everyone would rather cancel because they would lose money by paying the insane licensing fees.
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Never really had an interest in the game but it still sucks to see its tournament scene getting killed off so abruptly like this.
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Too bad street fighter blows
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Man, I feel sorry for Arc system works, they were really excited about the game, now all they have is the terrible Kill la Kill game, the Grandblue game, RWBY/Under night in birth/Persona/Senran Kagura or Hypderdiemsnsion Neptunia game, Blazblue and Guilty Gear.
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The_Scarecrow posted...

Kelystic posted...

What is their reasoning though?

Better exposure through tournaments means better sales right?

Toei isn't getting any money from this. Bandai Namco bought the rights to use DB characters from Toei. Then, they hired ASW to develop the game. Bandai Namco gets all the revenue from retail sales. Toei got their money when Bamco bought the rights from them. However, all these events and tournaments being hosted is making everyone money but Toei. Toei can't go after Bamco because they bought the rights to use these characters so they're going after everyone else. Toei is probably issuing a licensing fee to use the DBZF IP but no one wants to pay the fee because it costs so much.

Basically, Toei is saying pay up or cancel the tournaments so everyone would rather cancel because they would lose money by paying the insane licensing fees.

Well shit.
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More of the insanity of 2018. DBFZ gets mad... saves the fighting scene... Toei/Shueisha is like that's actually doing too good lol, let's destroy it. They just won fighting game of the year too :(
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._.
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guess that means no DBFighterZ 2

Toei gonna toei.
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God damn it. All that hard work to make a good Dragon Ball fighter and nobody except Bamco can make tournaments for it because of Toei. That sucks.
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Welp, back to MvC Infinite I guess.

Still, this is a damn shame.
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Was a shitty fighting game anyways
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I doubt this will last long. Nintendo backed down, Toei will too
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