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The Dragon Ball franchise is taking over the world, and that includes the mobile game industry. Apparently, their popular mobile games with in-app purchases have cheat apps available in Japan, and the seven people behind it are now in trouble.
According to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in Japan (via Anime News Network), seven people involved with the cheating app for the Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle mobile game have been arrested.
Gifu prefecture's police arrested seven people connected with the sale of an illegal cheating app proxy service for the Dragon Ball game. Players can allegedly use the app to purchase the game's in-app goods for free.
The ages of the individuals varied from a high school student to 44-years-old, and each person was charged for a different reason. Some were arrested for buying or selling the app, one for selling information as to where people can find the app, and two who paid for the information. One was arrested for using the proxy service, and another for providing it for the purchases.
Fans make in-app purchases to get new characters used in the game, so Dokkan Battle players can pay real-world money for a virtual currency called Dragon Stones. They can be used to purchase character blind packs, which functions as a "loot box" system in which players can pay virtual currency for a chance to get new characters.
Dragon Ball Super is available for streaming on Crunchyroll Saturdays at 7:15 p.m. CST. Toonami still airs the English dub of Dragon Ball Super on Adult Swim Saturdays at 9:30 p.m. It's also available to stream on FunimationNOW and Amazon. The upcoming Dragon Ball Super film will be released in Japan on December 14 and Funimation will release it in North America sometime in January 2019
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