DBZ MMO, Why? Options

[Knightsword]

http://kotaku.com/gaming/dragon-ball-z/nex...ll-z-245440.php

Mark your calendars. In 2008, a MMO Dragon Ball Z will be hitting Japan. Being beta testing in Korea this summer, the game is set 200 years after the manga's end. The plot? An evil organization has divided up the world, which players set out to reunite. What's more, players start off as kids, grow into adults and can select any of the major races — Saiyan, Nameks and Humans. Just as you'd expect with any MMO, players can also make their own avatars. Artist Akira Toriyama will be lending a hand to design characters, backgrounds and generally make sure the game looks all Toriyama-ey. Brian Ashcraft

Dragon Ball Online [Japanator]

Why cant DBZ stay dead, its an awful anime and Akira Toriyama's art hasn't had any originality to it for years, its always the same characters over and over again.

[Crushinator]

I don't get how this will work anyways, as far as the concept goes. Isn't the whole point of DBZ the fact that there are only like 5 guys that are super strong in the whole god damn universe? If you're playing an MMO with thousands of other people, and you all have the potential to be super strong (over 9000 if you will), then doesn't that take away what was interesting and special about the DBZ universe to begin with?

I have the same problem wrapping my head around the forthcoming DC and Marvel MMOs. Not everyone can be fucking Superman or Wolverine or whatever, how the fuck are they supposed to work?

[Sieranis]

I don't get how this will work anyways, as far as the concept goes. Isn't the whole point of DBZ the fact that there are only like 5 guys that are super strong in the whole god damn universe? If you're playing an MMO with thousands of other people, and you all have the potential to be super strong (over 9000 if you will), then doesn't that take away what was interesting and special about the DBZ universe to begin with?

I have the same problem wrapping my head around the forthcoming DC and Marvel MMOs. Not everyone can be fucking Superman or Wolverine or whatever, how the fuck are they supposed to work?

I agree wholeheartedly Crush. The idea of creating a MMO off of the realm of such franchises is pretty absurd. The catch around the marvel and DC universes is that the heroes there are superhuman, now in a MMO how can there possibly be THAT many with superpowers? I'd think that would unbalance the overall premise of being humanly normal. Especially since I doubt that there are more than 1000 supers in either franchises, if there are that still doesn't factor in that MMO's may have over 10000 people playing at a given time. But I'm over-analyzing things, seeing as these are probably factors that will just be overlooked, because all that probably does matter is gameplay. That said, it really is pretty fun playing a super-hero though. (I've played CoH and CoV and enjoyed them both for a good while)