I'm guessing they chose Dragon Quest as the franchise for cost-saving reasons, since you can pretty much exchange all the DQ characters with any generic anime face from the past 60 years. I imagine this might have been fun to play, if I was still 13 or 14 and had a group of actual real life friends to get together with for a couple of hours. But playing online with faceless, anonymous nobodies will be just as bland an experience as connecting to somebody on Dynasty Warriors.