IMO, this game has a good chance of being the top dance game of 2010 in terms of new dance games (Not counting ITG and the older DDR games mind you)

The Pump Pro 2 Team have been listening to the feedback and suggestions of the community and should they play their cards right, this game would be very successful. Maybe even become the top game in US and Canada. =D

I know DDR X2 is coming and all in Japan but I'm holding my breath on that game until we know what's happening with the US Version. And to be honest I heard nothing on a US Version.

And even if one does comes out, if X2 is going to a wrack like X1, then arcades and players should turn their focus on a game where the makers does care about their US and Canadian Players which would be this one.

I will keep posting until this unjustice of excluding players based on age is eliminated or addressed with an educated answer!

Sadly all you are doing is risk getting yourself banned for spamming if you keep making the same topics over and over. 

There is really nothing you can do in terms of this. Konami didn't listen then, they won't now.

The next two months should decide whatever or not X2 will be a World Release or a Japan Only Release IMO.

It's very likely things won't change for Future Tournaments, if any National Tournaments did happen again.

If you read up on the tournament on Bemanistyle and Aaron in Japan, you would find that many of the players that took place in that tournament believe it was not a very successful one and that none of the player's feedback was taken seriously. (When it comes to Konami and North America, this is nothing new)

So in short don't be surprise if your idea on the removing of the age limit (or anything on that matter of DDR Arcade in the US) doesn't get heard.

vilepickle, I wouldn't count on Konami of Japan reading your feedback.

The Japan Team are the ones that handle DDR and the arcade releases, sadly from what I understand they only listen to the players in Japan, they don't even come to this site.

We mighy not even get X2 due to the failures of X1.

This is why..

(From Bemanistyle)

The 4th regional tournament for the official Konami US championships was held yesterday which resulted in foreseeable mistakes of both pad quality and differing from posted rules by Gameworks and tournament officials.
The day before the tournament players were already seeing the effects of poor pads. After complaining to the Gameworks technicians it was said that there was nothing more they could do and that’s the best they were going to be for the tournament.
Ryan Iyengar aka DukAmok attended all previous qualifiers, but due to Konami’s finances he was unable to make the MN regional. This is where most players knew that without the expertise of a skilled player present for each regional things would begin to fall apart. Being that Ryan was that skilled player, making sure the pads were working to the best of their abilities before the event and maintaining proper posted rules, without his help things were left in the hands of Konami’s 3rd party tournament organizers and the event turned out to be unanimously awful.

• 1st Travis K (reboman)
• 2nd Mike L (Bluemystic)
• 3rd Tim L (Cartoonhero)
• 4th Jayson M (Jay Goemon)

During the tournament the left 1P side of the pad was performing terribly for everyone and it was said that anyone who had the right 2p side was going to have a higher chance of winning. Only until a player had 18~ misses and dropped holds was the problem looked into by a GW tech. Players were offering to help fix the problem, but were then threatened to be disqualified if they touched the machine. GW came to the conclusion that they were just playing the wrong way.
Confusion then occurred with the correct songs to be played for each match and how random songs were to be selected. Mike and Tim had to redo their match after a misunderstanding after they had played songs outside of the tournament list. Players were also using the machine’s Random which makes it impossible to tell what song is about to be played, modifiers were guesses.

EvilDave saids

The songs for randoms were only supposed to be the 5 used in each rounds, they were never supposed to use machine random because there's no way to determine what song you're playing. On the final round where you can pick anything, the random comes from the group of 9s used in the tournament (which for this would have been Afronova, Brilliant RED, iFuturelist, Xepher, and Electro Tuned).
All best of 5 matches meant you were allowed 2 picks each and random on the 5th song if necessary, not 1 pick each and then random the rest.

Overall players felt that many matches could have been determined by a coin toss instead of skills due to inconstant pads. The outcome of rounds would have in all likelihood resulted differently if the correct songs and randoms would have been enforced.
To recap here are the winners from each of the four previous regionals:

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What happen in the Minneapolis Regional was uncalled for and was unfair to the Community, it's a prime example on why the more and more the hardcore players are dropping DDR in favor of other non-Konami Dance Games and stopped supporting Konami, the lack of connection between Konami and the Hardcore Playes have been a problem for years now and along with the poor DDR X release and now this, It is clear this problem is still exists and it's now harming this tournament.

Many players from Aaron in Japan agree that any tournament that will not have Duk Amok (A Person who understands the community and keep in touch with the Hardcore Players) there will suffer the same fate.

My only problem with this is that it seems like Canada is out of luck in terms of this event due to the fact that only US Gamework locations are being used for this tournament.

It kinda sucks....If Canada can have Regional Tournaments, I was going to see if I can get one up in Edmonton, Alberta since we have a SN1.

Guess we'll see in a few days.

Or at least for alot of people it seems.

http://www.bemanistyle.com/index.php/news/no-plans-for-ddr-x-us-upgrade-kits-1484#comments

Betson/Konami just mention that there will be no plans for upgrade kits, which was pretty much the one thing that could save DDR X AC on the US. Good job on killing off any chance any smart arcade owner/chain will buy this game and future DDR games.

Get used to seeing arcades supporting/going for ITG, Pump It Up and soon IDance AC over DDR Konami because of your decsions as well. Because I don't think DDR AC has a future now and this was pretty much the final nail.

ps: Yeah I'm pretty upset atm and morelikely will edit this later on more detales such as on why the upgrade kits problem is a bad thing and such.

Seeing how I just got a Xbox360 as a gift, I guess I'll give the new DDR (360 Version) a try when it comes out.

Going by what I am seeing over at Aaron in Japan over at the DDR Accomplishment Thread, I found something about the tournament.

Yeah, but like Andy said, no date, no nothing. The only thing I remember hearing that had a definitive time frame was December, but that's a really short announcement time, especially considering we have to do qualifying seed tournaments all over the country.

I trust Duk enough to stop playing ITG to practice on a far more expensive DDR machine. That much is certain .

So a few things.

-December could be the time of the tournament.

-There will Qualifying Seed Tournaments taking place all over US (and hopefully Canada) before than.

- More expensive DDR Machine? A hint of Japan Version Based DDR X Machines on their way? 

Anyways take note this should be taken in as rumors until Duk Amok confirms what is going on.

If the tournament does happen in Decemeber I would recommand to Duk/Konami to confrim the detales before the end of September in order to allow those to plan such a trip.

Indeed the editor does run abit slow and I'm on a High Speed Connetion =O

Sadly I still believe that DDR AC doesn't have a good future in arcades due to this.

Supernova and Supernova made some mistakes that harm the fanbase of the DDR AC Scene but X pretty much landed a mortal blow on this and while Konami's very overdue  reply on SOME of the problems may have stop the bleeding, the damage was still overwheming. I think over the last two months we may have lost a good number of people to ITG, Pump or other games (or just quited) due to X.

My local community and arcades for example refuses to support X in any shape or form (Arcades won't buy it and Community will not play it) and instead are focusing on supporting their ITG Machines and outdated DDR Extremes. The only new dance game my local community may be getting in the future could be that new PG IDance game or a Pump game.

Big things/change need to happen  or the AC Games fanbase will not be here for not much longer. Period.

I don't mean to bump this or anything but there is rumors that Duk Amok was discussing to some players during the very recent Rocky Mount X tournament about a "upcoming" DDR National Tournament.

Now I don't know if this is the Konami-hosted National Tournament  that we have been discussing here but if it is, it would be a good sign that this event will be happening =D

I guess we'll know soon enough if this is the case.

If you want a  chance to send your feedback on the crap on DDR X to Konami in Japan, a admin in Bemanistyle is making a report on DDR X

Konami didn't listen to the fanbase when they complained about Betson, and now they get to reap the fruit of $10,000 DOA cabinets and very angry arcade owners who are never going to buy DDR again. If they're lucky, drop Betson right away, and issue a public notice/apology/recall, they MIGHT be able to recoup the huge damage this has done to the game.

I argee very strongly with this. The fate of future DDR ACs in US/Canada is going grim due to this.

Very good chance, DDR AC could reach it's end due to this.

I can see arcades going to stick with ITG or even start buying Pump over DDR due to this, with the rumors of a AC Version of IDance coming as well, Konami needs to get their crap together cause this type of crap is what killing this game in the arcades.

Most smart arcades owners will not buy these crap machines and most players will not play on them.

So with my poll question done, it seems like alot of people would like to see this event happen.

Which pretty much leads to the question, are these polls gonna to submited into Konami.

I am pretty sure most people would take part in these polls would like to see the results as well =D

In my community, ITG followed by PIU are the most popular dance games.

This is largely due to the fact there is only one Supernova machine and Extreme Machines at are in working shape are very rare in our city :(

And sadly due to the bad news around DDR X US, it's very likely gonna stay that way for awhile. 

Why would you make dance pads out of WOOD? O_O