The Slow Suffocation of Dragon Ball FighterZ

With Dragon Ball FighterZ being one of the biggest fighting games in 2018, recent actions suggest it may not get a 2019 season.

[J-DARKnes]

Before they add any more characters they need to fix some of the game mechanics, looking at you auto combo autocorrect.

[ZaWarudo]

Toei Animations has denied being the ones canceling tourneys. So that leaves Shueisha, the manga publishers.

The real question is: WHY? What possible reason would that have for doing this? ridiculous..

[WitcheRivia]

Because ArcSys is the dev & they want to work on other games (rumors of another Guilty Gear is coming & they want it to be more accessible than Xrd). Bandai Namco doesn't even have enough money to put into their Tekken tournaments to make it worth traveling to so they're definitely not going to waste more money on other tournaments.

Regardless, the community can still create their own tournaments and at big events like EVO there will be side tournaments for the game.

[Servbot41]

Toei Animation's WESTERN branch denied it. We all know the Japanese HQ of these companies never tell the US/EU branches what is going on, so it very well could still be them.

That being said its probably that Shueisha.

[KaoSouL]

Just like BBTag, the mechanics are too simple to hold my attention for long. I dropped it a month after launch... I dropped BBTag the day it launched. I can't even watch tournament play, because its as excessively boring and repetitive to watch as it is to play. ArcSys is my favorite company, but now I'm afraid they're going to screw up GG and BB forever with this new "simpler is better" mentality.

Seriously, there are only about 1,500 people playing this game on Steam at any given time. How many of them compete in tournaments... 1%? Are there even enough players signing up for none official DBFZ tournaments? I think Toei and other license holders have nothing to do with tournament cancellations, and it's the lack of interest in the game that's getting it pulled from the tournament scene.

[remixx116]

....the lack of interest?? It was the most viewed game at Evo and it's sales are phenomenal for a fighting game. Looking close to 4 mil, like what are you even talking about?? It also had I believe more entrees than any game at Evo. Not only that but non official tourny holders like nlbc and anime aluminati hold growing tournaments every week. How could lack of interest... guilty gear xrd rev 2 has an online community of like 300 on PS4 yet it's still a mainline game at Evo.

Arcsys isn't dumbing down their mainline e games, their only dumbing down their mass appeal games like dbfz and BB cross tag because they want it to reach the audience that enjoys it's content. Dbfz=dbz fans bbctb=rwby, persona fans

[CodeNameTBW2]

dbz died with majin Vegeta. Everything After that was a Cash grab