 How's it going everybody? Dato Doi here with another news update for Dragon Ball Fighters and this time around it pains me to say this but this is not going to be an exciting update video like the other ones we have done on this channel in terms of the future of this game. So right now if you follow a lot of Dragon Ball Fighters personalities on Twitter or if you've even gone to a fan forum for the game or the subreddit you've probably seen a lot of reports of Dragon Ball Fighters getting shut down at tournaments you know small tournaments across the world this isn't exactly something new for Toei they've done this in the past but two recent big examples have been Evo Japan they could not run it due to rights issues and anime ascension which also recently announced that Dragon Ball Fighters would no longer be allowed to play there due to unforeseen circumstances. Adding to this air of confusion is also the fact that we have no DLC announcements at all or any plans for a season 2 announced publicly so that's just adding to the air of confusion people don't know if there's going to be a future for this game and fighting game players don't know if they should take the time out of their day to seriously compete in it and practice and get better and sit out for these events that might just end up getting cancelled and on top of all this you also have the head of Evo Mr. Wiz over on Twitter saying it's sad to see what's happening to the Dragon Ball Fighters community it literally might be a one and done this of course is a huge thing to read from the head of Evo up for the future of Dragon Ball Fighters and the last thing you want to see if you're a player that seriously competes in it but now you might be asking why does all of this matter if they only shut down the small side tournaments and the tournaments they're not interested and only stick to their world tour and their own events why does it really matter well for starters that's not really something the fighting game community is a big fan of you know we like having our small independent events where people where people local to those areas get a chance to you know maybe they don't get to travel all the time but they like Dragon Ball Fighters they want to practice they want to compete and these local small tournaments are all they got and some of these local small tournaments I'm saying small but you know they can build quite a name for themselves like anime ascension is one of them so when you shut down these tournaments you're essentially taking away chance for people to go and compete in those games and saying hey make it to the one make it to one of the world tour events and also the world tour is coming to an end very soon and with no announced plans again air of confusion very scary time to consider playing Dragon Ball Fighters and another thing I should really talk about is competition in terms of fighting game people play fighting games to be the best and because of that the best get paid a lot because everybody's competing and the best take all their money pretty much but it is the spirit of competition and the want to be the best that really drives it so if you minimize the player pool and you only sit out to these very big events what's stopping it from people just okay well I'll just play Street Fighter or Tekken or anything else because I just can't go to any fighters events there's none near me they all get shut down and as that player pool dwindles the prize money dwindles top players check out everybody checks out dead game pretty much that it's pretty much you have to like think of games that have failed in the past and why they have failed and it's pretty much either they don't have a significant enough base or they don't have any events to go to and if they don't have any big events to go to because nobody can get the rights to do so small fan events pop up and immediately are axed as well so it's a very confusing situation to be in and I think it's definitely something they have to talk about the heads at Toei that are doing this or whoever is behind this they have to come out and talk about it at least ARXIS has to address it or Bandai somebody behind this game should address this because this is a huge issue for the future of this game and the stability of its player base or at least the ones going to tournament online it really doesn't matter that's another thing I know I mentioned this earlier and this is kind of scatterbrained but no DLC so not only are we just in this for the world tour and you know jump fest is coming up the world finals are coming up but we've been in a very long period of time where no big content has been announced so they're keeping it to themselves which is a you know it's a marketing strategy maybe you want to hold it to yourself wait for a big event let it all out but this is the risky run when nobody knows what's coming it's it's always around the corner we don't know if it's there we're just waiting to get to that corner to find out and right now we've hit a road bump where tournaments are getting cancelled and we have one or two more stops on the world tour and then that's it that's all we know what's behind that corner that's all we know but the signs the signs around us are pretty much saying danger at this point why did I choose to bring this up well because I don't only want to cover the good of dragon ball fighters I want to cover dragon ball fighters okay I love this game I love watching the high tournaments playing I love watching mid-level play for dragon ball fighters mid-level plays surprisingly fun to watch but this kind of stuff this attitude towards canceling tournaments that I don't know why are you shutting these tournaments down they've proven themselves in the past to run good events like I get it if if I say I'm gonna run a big tournament on twitch and I have like these you know random like signs that say all sorts of things and say yep this is my dragon ball fighters a tournament official then yeah shut me down but anime ascension evo japan what's the risk what's the point of shutting those ones down I don't know guys I'm sorry if this video hasn't been a bit scattered or a bit scared I think they are going to let me just end on a positive note I'm pretty sure they're going to announce something in terms of content wise out either jump festa or later on at the world tour finals if they don't I'd be very much surprised but I really think they are going to as for the rights issue though I really don't know what they're gonna do we have to have events outside of the world tour stuff we just you have to okay so Toei if you're listening very surprised you sat through an entire English video okay just let me know your thoughts down in the comments I gotta end this video if you like these videos make sure to like them and leave me your thoughts on that tournament stuff if you want to watch a happier video there are four on your screen right now make sure you give those a watch I'm gonna go ahead and get out of here though guys I'm Dr. Doia I'll see you in the next video