Yea, I found out about this a little while ago and its just dumb...
I mean, really... online Shenmue? With fireballs at that? First of all how can a game like shenmue be a MMORPG? What are you going to do? Walk around town endlessly? For this to be good it can't stick to the classic shenmue formula at all. Shenmue is set to mimic real life which, quite frankly, sucks (unless you are ryo, of course).
So, they added fireballs and all this magic stuff so it can be interesting, and fireballs is not shenmue...
If you dont know what I am talking about, check out a trailer
here. Its shown during the middle.