Konami wants your music for the next DDR

What a ripoff. You gotta pay $20 so that MAYBE you'll get $1,000? 50 entries alone would pay for a single winner, and even if your song is good enough to put in the game, then Konami basically just payed you only a measly $1,000 for your song, much less than what they probably pay for licensing or making any other song on the list.

cum-bubbly??

DDR is dead; people have moved onto better games and Konami hasn't done jack but churned out the same recycled BS for quite a while now.

#2: And yet games still come out. Funny how that works, eh?

There's a lot more great material from other Bemani games that could be transferred to DDR just fine. Or non-music game music by Bemani artists.

Maybe.

Konami needs it to be DDR because they'd lose their "it's a workout!" fire completely. PnM, IIDX and GFDM wouldn't really get anywhere on that level.

I prefer IIDX and especially GuitarFreaks because they're difficult and very fun, and the music is mostly excellent.

#2: in no way DDR is dead, as a matter of fact, it's currently Konami's bread and butter, alongside their
other massive franchises like Winning Eleven and Castlevania.

Anyways, it's really good that they're making the series more eclectic, granted it was already there when they had a Ray Charles track in Ultramix 3, giving everyone a taste of diverse music genres.

I'm gonna have to disagree with the original poster about the lack of originality in Bemani music. Most of their good tracks are created by various in-house artists such as Naoki, TaQ, DJ Taka, and Akira Yamaoka just to name a few. The contest is merely a way to give indie musicians some much needed exposure.

Konami's best stuff is found in Beatmania. DDR tends to get Beatmania runoff remixed. But hey, while we're bashing dance games, how about this?

Dear Konami,
please start sending the good Beatmania mixes stateside. While I am not suffering due to owning Red and Happy Sky mixes, many of my friends truly believe the pitiful mix dropped is the best you can do with this series. And while we're on the subject, please create brand new mixes of Dance Maniax. I mean, DDR is fine and all but I haven't been excited about a mix in a long, long, loooong time.

Dear Andamira,
Pump It Up is "teh rox." Seriously. This is a great series that lacks one major thing, US presence. Where is Exceed 2 for my PS2? Do you realize how many flaming hoops of hell I had to jump through to get my second mat that now sits by a played out mix? DDR music variety has nothing on you and while DDR tends to give the same artist 9-10 different names, I have no problem acknowledging Banya under a single name. Please bring more.

Dear Sega,
You've seen the Wii, right? You pretty much have a system begging for a maraca shaking monkey. Please, deliver us another Samba De Amigo. We want it, need it, and love it. Plus, unlike the Dreamcast, majority of the Wii's fanbase is ready and willing to make an ass of themselves with eccentric gameplay. You need money, right? Why else would you have shipped Sonic the way it was?

Dear NamcoBandai,
WHERE THE **** IS MORE TAIKO DRUM MASTER? I have two drums, eager for some more platsic drumbumping going on. Please deliver.

I would go out on a whim and say DDR is dead but since it's popular here in the US, it is far from dying. But I do have to agree that Konami is getting lazy with this series compared to thier other stuff like the GitaDora series, Beatmania IIDX, and Pop'n Music where they actually create new music and notecharts that are actually enjoyable, unlinke the new DDR game that came out recently.

I’m friends with Kristy of The Azoic.
They got on DDR a while ago with their song called Conflict. And I’m sure the licensing they received was about $1000. That’s pretty much standard for a video game unless you are a big time headliner. $20 is only yo weed out the people that are NOT serious, and deture fluff. This is infact a GREAT idea. If it were free do you really think someone would want to listen to 10,000 poorly done tracks made with Acid 3. This keeps it ligit, and fair.

Tilly and the Wall, man. Tilly and the Wall.

A contest got Ryu* in. But, a contest also got DM Ashura in. And now that some good artists are gone, we're going to need more contest winners like Ryu*.

Hey, you're with Joystiq now? Congrats buddy, good to see you're still writing!