The Inevitable Death Of Dragon Ball: The Breakers Has Been Confirmed In The Weirdest Way
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It looks like Dragon Ball: The Breakers really is as dead as we all feared, as a recent advertisement notably leaves it out of the "active" Dragon Ball games lineup.
With FighterZ and Kakarot as legacy games, Sparking Zero about to get its big expansion that could fix all the problems everyone picked with it, and Xenoverse 3 officially on the horizon, Dragon Ball has simply never been more back when it comes to games. That's just the cream of the crop, too, as there are even more active games in the franchise that don't instantly jump to mind.
Gekishin Squadra and the multiple Dragon Ball mobile games are also going strong, but there's one fairly recent online release that sadly never made the impact that it deserved. I am, of course, talking about Dragon Ball: The Breakers, an online asymmetrical game that has seemingly been on its way out for a while. Thanks to a recent update, it looks like the time of death has been all but confirmed.
Bandai Namco Doesn't Consider Dragon Ball: The Breakers An "Active" Game
With Less Than 100 Concurrent Players On Steam, That Might Be Fair
As pointed out by Twitter user TheHomiErikMod, an advertisement flyer was recently handed out at an event where Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 was playable to the public for the first time. The flyer is clearly just serving as a reminder that there are plenty of other Dragon Ball games to play while you wait for Xenoverse 3, but it's interesting to note which games aren't included.
Alongside Dragon Ball Z Kakarot, which makes sense since it recently had its last DLC and CyberConnect2 seems to be moving on to its own things, Dragon Ball: The Breakers is notably not mentioned at all on the flyer. Considering even FighterZ and Xenoverse 2 (which just had its true final DLC) are included, it's pretty telling about the state of the game.
In fact, as pointed out by Twitter user SLOplays, this is pretty much the closest thing we've received to "official" confirmation that The Breakers is done. It's seemed that way for quite some time now due to dwindling player counts, but even more so with the game's last major content drop releasing a little less than a year ago.
It's been theorised for some time that The Breakers acted as a sort of testing ground for Xenoverse 3 features so, if true, it did manage to get that right.
It seems unlikely that Bandai Namco will outright say that The Breakers isn't getting any more content until it confirms that the game is outright going offline but, for now, this is pretty much all the confirmation that we need to know the game is done. At least it marks one of the most interesting Dragon Ball games of the bunch, if not one of the most successful.
Dragon Ball: The Breakers
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OpenCritic Reviews - Top Critic Avg: 55/100 Critics Rec: 9%
- Released
- October 14, 2022
- ESRB
- T For Teen Due To Cartoon Violence, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes
- Developer(s)
- Dimps
- Publisher(s)
- Bandai Namco Entertainment
WHERE TO PLAY
- Genre(s)
- Survival
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