In a press conference held in South Korea on February 14, 2008, NTL expressed interest in releasing the game to a worldwide audience. On May 12, the closed beta for the new Taiwanese server opened up and later ended on May 16. It was announced in early January 2011 that the next place of release would be Taiwan. Further delays set in until April, 2009 when closed beta testing began in South Korea.
īeta testing of Dragon Ball Online was initially announced to begin in South Korea, during the summer of 2007, though development was delayed by a year and it was then scheduled to go live in Korea by the end of 2008, and in Japan in 2009. The story created by Toriyama and the developers occurs 250 years after the events of the original manga. Toriyama was also working on character designs for Dragon Ball Online for the last five years prior to 2008.
The Dragon Ball series creator Akira Toriyama had a great deal of creative control over the project, both contributing to and having complete supervision of the story and art design, including character and location arrangements every single thing in the game from the usable in-game techniques to story elements had to be checked by Akira Toriyama, and if consent was given from him were then allowed to be placed in the game.
