Board Thread:News and Announcements in game/@comment-27996636-20170423115143/@comment-28010522-20170424151333

on-topic : re: Plus, why deliver the ALL SUPER & ALL EXTREME leaders now?

that got me curious, too, actually! I am guessing/speculating that,   i) in part it's gotta do with driving sales revenue;   ii) in another part, which might be unlikely anytime soon, but plausible.., they are considering merging JPN and GLB somehow or another.

off-topic : on what characters in-game are supposed to be called

if it boils down to personal preference, heck, one can call those anything one wants. personal preference is subjective/relative. it is not a vice vs virtue kinda thing. I think if anybody wants to call them  'units,' it's not an issue at all.

and, back to personal preference thing, I prefer calling them  'cards',   'coz I am already familiar with collectible Dragon Ball cards wayyy before Dokkan Battle came into existence. and I can recognize the similarities/patterns. which I have pointed out in the post above.

i) hologram from the collectible cards is ported to Dokkan Battle;   ii) Villain/Heroes originate from the collectible cards, which were changed to Super/Extreme and ported to Dokkan Battle;   iii) stats like HP-ATK etc. from the collectible cards got ported to Dokkan Battle;   iv) power level in the collectible cards got revamped, but the idea got ported to Dokkan Battle as the Ki meter/gauge;   v) characters' designs, backgrounds, and/or image arts from the collectible cards were recycled, reused, improved upon, and ported to Dokkan Battle;   vi) Carddass is a subsidiary of Bandai (before merging with Namco), and they specialize in printable collectible cards from various manga/anime franchise/brand, etc. it is not as if Carddass is a company totally unrelated with Bandai (before merging with Namco). it would make logical business sense that the management of BNEI (after merging with Namco) would want to make full use of whatever resources they currently have (after merging) to create new business opportuntiies.

voila! Dokkan Battle, is one of them.