Team Dosu has not been forgotten. And seeing so many people agreeing with me... to all of you who’ve agreed with me about my Dosu argument, who’ve put up with all of my ranting – thanks. I love you guys.

...and in typical forum fashion a bunch of the images broke.

Tiami x2

I am not alone.

So I’m going to ask the mods some direct questions regarding Dosu to help clear up this fiasco. Some of them kind of overlap with each other, so please bear with me here. And I apologize beforehand if anything I say offends you – I'm trying to share my perspective on this issue here.

Question 1: What reasons do the devs have for NOT releasing Dosu?

Is it because he won’t be profitable? So what? Just release him with some P2W events! Introducing Dosu as playable won’t lower your income AT ALL! And it’s not like you have a limit to how many events you can do, right?

Is it because Tencent won’t let you? Why won’t they? Why can’t they? I learned recently that Dosu was actually playable in the Chinese alpha/beta version but was removed for unknown reasons. Why?

Why did they remove Dosu? I can’t think of any logical reason why.

I mean, it’s not an issue of resources. They have all the Dosu sprites they need. In another Tencent game that’s China exclusive and uses the same graphics as Naruto Online, Dosu is a fully playable character and has waaaaaay more sprites than Naruto Online uses.

So why make him playable in one game and not the other? It's absurd.

Question 2: Why wasn’t Dosu released at the beginning of the game?

As far as I can tell, you guys’s general pattern with releasing content is vaguely chronologically. It’s kinda like FGO, in that characters are released in a pattern that follows the story.

In N-O, first came Sage treasure, then Kage, then Edo Tensei and Lightning, et cetera et cetera. If this was the case, then Team Dosu should’ve been playable right at the start.

Why weren’t they?

Question 3: Why is Zaku the only one playable in the international versions?

I’m talking like in CN and Germany. Zaku’s the only one playable and that leaves me completely confused as to what the devs were thinking. Why release Zaku and not the other two? As I keep saying, again and again: it’s so bizarre.

Question 4: Mods, when you said that you “passed my suggestion to the developers”, did you just tell them that “a guy on the forum wants you to add Dosu as a playable character” or did you tell them my entire arguments?

You guys are moderators. It’s your job for Kami’s sake to communicate between the developer team and the players, and if you aren’t passing down everything…

Well, I don’t expect you to copy/paste the entire thirty or so pages of arguments that I’ve already written. But, at the very least, you could provide a synopsis or TL:DR of what I said, just to show that I’m taking this very seriously instead of just randomly suggesting something without thinking.

Question 5: Did you guys even pass along my suggestion to revamp the Plot Instances? Did the developers even read the suggestions I left for changing Dosu’s, Zaku’s, and Kin’s dialogue, or did you not show them that? What reasons do they have for not fixing the grammar and how characters are presented, and for brushing it off like it’s not an issue?

As I stated above, Daiske’s initial statement makes it sound like he didn’t even report my suggestion of editing the plot. I can’t help but worry that my entire argument isn’t being communicated accurately.

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