General Arcade Game Discussion

[Maxpphire]

Im fucking mad at pachinkos and how konami killed every single franchise i love to be converted to penny guzzlers

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Serious Question time, when was Konami not a shitlord?
Serious Answer: Never.

Biggest example that you might have ignored: Konami does it's best to have a monopoly on Music Game everywhere. There is more to this than Konami sueing Harmonix and Activision. A thing they have actually done before was take another companies upcoming idea and patented it before they could (The company went bankrupt trying to sue Konami over it). They tried to sue Harmonix and Activision because of the fact that Rock Band and Guitar Hero came out. They might have had a leg to stand on if only they actually advertised Gitadora (Formerly GuitarFreaks and Drummania) here, but they didn't so they lost. Think about it, if they won, we'd barely have any music games here, they would have seized their assets and never done anything with it, much like what they did with Roxor and In The Grove. The only reason why they won against Roxor, because they literally took Dance Dance Revolution Machines and upgraded them to be In The Groove Machines. If Kyle Ward actually bothered to build his own machines, he probably wouldn't have lost. The only reason why In The Grove became a thing because Konami was so mad at us for how we treated Dance Dance Revolution that they stopped making the series for several years. If Koren's Copyright laws weren't how they are, We wouldn't have Pump it Up anymore either (Not because Konami would have Sued over it's Similarities to Dance Dance Revolution, because they would have sued over it's Similarities to Pop'n Stage.) nor would we have EZ2DJ from AmuseWorld, which is Basically a mix of Beatmania and BeatmaniaIIDX and better/more interesting gameplay mechanics.

They've made Pachinko Machines for years, in fact BeatmaniaIIDX has two of them now. You act as if that was new? It's not. Konami isn't a shit company because of their recent issues. Oh no, it goes far deeper, and the fact that their music games still print them money is the only reason why they exist. A lot of people left the Bemani Franchise and have slowly been going since 2007. Akira Yamaoka was the first notible person to leave, but because he never bothered with another music game again, they've been slow on removing his music, instead of removing all of it at once. If you ever played DDR back in the days, you might recognize the name Naoki. He used to oversee the seires, and pick what songs go in the game. He left Konami and made his own Music Game called "CrossXBeat". Konami Responded by removing 90% of his songs in their game seires. When Jun followed him, they removed as many Terra Songs that they could without pissing off the player base. (Terra was a collab between Jun and Naoki)

That being said I love Arcade Music Games. I just wish I could buy out the Bemani Franchise from Konami, it's not like they would ever give us the chance to support that series anyway, so fuck it.