Dragon Ball FighterZ Beta Sign Ups Delayed Significantly

Today, many of you were looking forward to signing up for the Dragon Ball FighterZ multiplayer beta. Bandai Namco has been promoting today as the day that a lucky remnant would secure their place for the tests, and be among the first people in the world to play what looks to be the best Dragon Ball fighting game ever made. Sadly, Bandai Namco announced that we’d have to wait a while longer for sign ups, and even longer to actually play the game. Here’s the official statement from Bandai Namco’s official Facebook page:

“BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. would like to thank all its fans for their tremendous support for DRAGON BALL FighterZ. We recently announced at EVO 2017 that the closed beta sign-ups for DRAGON BALL FighterZ would begin on July 26, 2017; due to the volume of excitement and enthusiasm surrounding this announcement, we have decided to expand the capacity of the closed beta in an effort to enable more players to participate in the program.

“We are also working to bolster our background systems to ensure that the closed beta registration and selection process can accept the volume of anticipated sign-ups. However, these efforts will necessitate a slight delay for the closed beta sign-up date, which will move to August 22, 2017 with the official start of the DRAGON BALL FighterZ Closed Beta officially commencing from September 16 -18.

“We would like to thank all of our fans for their patience and understanding; we look forward to sharing more news about the DRAGON BALL FighterZ Closed Beta program soon. Thank you.”
That’s a pretty significant delay, actually. We were expecting it to be pushed back maybe a few days, or a week. Instead, we’ll have to wait almost a month to sign up, and we won’t actually get to play until mid September?! What a bummer.

At least it sounds like Bandai Namco is doing everything it can to ensure that as many fans as possible get to play. This delay, if BAMCO is to be believed, is to broaden the scope of this test. We like the sound of that. Stay tuned for all of the latest on Dragon Ball FighterZ.