Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31751771-20170421065855/@comment-26208209-20170421072739

Not really, considering that Japan is essentially a testing bed for Bandai to see how certain units work combat-wise, as well as how the players react to them.

When it came to Goku Black, he was buffed for several reasons; one, because he was underwhelming when he came out on Japan. He was essentially a discount Buuhan, and other than him there were no new units on his banner, which felt cheap.

Secondly, Bandai KNEW that players weren't interested in summoning for him; unlike on Japan, where Black was released right after his premiere in Dragon Ball Super; they didn't have that same momentum carrying forward on the Global version. This meant that even less people would bother going after him because the Goku Black hype had long since died out.

Third, the Global version had played second-banana to Japan ever since the game was released internationally; Global had generally worse rates, lower login rewards, and update times had dragged out months and months behind. Meanwhile, Japan was regularly getting newer and newer content with better rates, and was overall superior. Complaining just because Global one-upped Japan on one thing is a bit of a double standard if you never had an issue with Japan being better for so long.

Fourth, many of the non-Japanese people that got into playing the Japanese Dokkan Battle only did so because of how bad Global was at the time. They gave up on the Global game because they knew that the Global version was inferior (at the time). Now that Global has finally caught up a little, those players who made a conscious decision to leave Global are regretting that choice just because it came back to bite them in the butt.

There's something called commitment, and for the players who stuck out for Global in the long haul are finally beginning to have it all be worthwhile. Besides, after hearing countless Global players complain about their version fo the game for so long, I have no problem with the Japan players complaining about being shafted for once.