History WMG / Maimai

* '''Game & Variety:''' Likely safe, as the BMS songs aren't big-name songs and neither are the game crossover tracks. The crossover festival songs are from companies that do have amusement divisions in the US (such as Creator/NamcoBandai) or at least officially export their games there (such as Creator/{{Taito}} and Creator/{{Konami}}).

The game won't be well-liked by more "hardcore" rhythm game players due to the atypical scroll style and mechanics, but it will build up a decent fanbase amongst casual rhythm game players due to its beginner-friendliness.

SEGA will declare the loctest a success and move forward with a proper release, including the songs that were gutted out as well as All.net support. However, the game will [[CultClassic only have a marginal dedicated fanbase]], simply because [[FandomRivalry the game isn't CHUNITHM]].

* '''Game & Variety:''' Likely safe, as the BMS songs aren't big-name songs. The crossover festival songs are from companies that do have amusement divisions in the US (such as Creator/NamcoBandai) or at least officially export their games there (such as Creator/{{Taito}} and Creator/{{Konami}}).

* '''niconico & VOCALOID:''' Will likely make it intact, as far as songs go. SEGA already [[VideoGame/HatsuneMikuProjectDIVA has experience exporting VOCALOID-themed rhythm games to the West]]. The videos will be another story, as many of them consist of dances performed by fans, which will likely require separate licensing from the songs themselves.

* '''niconico & VOCALOID:''' Will likely make it intact, as far as songs go. SEGA already [[VideoGame/HatsuneMikuProjectDIVA has experience exporting VOCALOID-themed rhythm games to the West]]. The videos will likely be another story, as many of them consist of dances performed by fans, which will likely require separate licensing from the songs themselves.

* '''Pops & Anime:''' Gutted heavily or outright removed, due to all the licensing fees SEGA would have to pay for all of the big-name songs. Thanks to companies like PONYCANYON that seem to have a thing against songs under their rights getting exported, you likely won't get to play songs like [[Manga/AttackOnTitan "Guren no Yumiya"]] and [[Manga/IsTheOrderARabbit "Daydream Cafe"]].

Though then again that wouldn't explain they they didn't just use something like ''[=ViOLET=]''.

SEGA will declare the loctest a success and move forward with a proper release, including the songs that were gutted out from the SEA version as well as All.net support. However, the game will [[CultClassic only have a marginal dedicated fanbase]], simply because [[FandomRivalry the game isn't CHUNITHM]].

[[WMG:SEGA titled the fifth main version as ''MURASAKi'' rather than ''PURPLE'' because they didn't want to have two subtitles starting with the letter 'P'.]]

* ''maimai NERO'' (Italian for "black")

[[WMG:Future title names]]

* ''maimai AZURE'' (blue)

[[WMG: ''maimai'' (and also ''CHUNITHM'') not being exported to the West is actually an act of [[CruelToBeKind cold mercy]] by SEGA.]]
* Think about it. [[AmericansHateTingle American]] arcade management generally can't be bothered to get cabinets fixed and deal with internet connections. American customers casually dismiss arcade games past roughly the 90's for being overpriced casual novelty trash, and some of them like to be rough on arcade machines, especially children and some adults (particularly drunk customers after curfew hours at Round 1 and Dave & Buster's), which leads back into the whole issue of management shuffling their feet when it comes to keeping cabinets well-maintained. \\
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To those of us who have played or want to play ''maimai'' and live in the West: Would you want to deal with having access to ''maimai'' machines, but not being able to play your best on them because of rough customers damaging them and apathetic staff refusing to do a thing about it? \\
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Most likely, SEGA knows that all of this will be a pain in the ass at all levels and decided that us living vicariously through [=YouTube=] and niconico videos is less of a pain than "there's a ''maimai'' cab pair near my house but this button keeps triggering by itself and now I don't wanna play at all." \\
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[--Okay yeah, the more realistic guess would be that Pony Canyon licenses prevent SEGA from being able to export the game to Western territories without [[BadExportForYou heavily gutting the songlist]] or paying massive licensing costs. But hey, WMG is dumb theory zone anyway.--]

SEGA will declare the loctest a success and move forward with a proper release, including the songs that were gutted out from the SEA version as well as All.net support. However, the game will [[CultClassic only have a marginal dedicated fanbase]], simply because [[FandomRivalry the game isn't CHUNITHM]].

SEGA will declare the loctest a success and move forward with a proper release, including the songs that were gutted out from the SEA version as well as All.net support. However, the game will only have a marginal dedicated fanbase, simply because [[FandomRivalry the game isn't CHUNITHM]].

[--Okay yeah, the more realistic guess would be that Pony Canyon licenses prevent SEGA from being able to export the game to Western territories without [[BadExportForYou heavily gutting the songlist]] or paying massive licensing costs. But hey, WMG is dumb theory zone anyway.--]

[--Okay yeah, the more realistic guess would be that Pony Canyon licenses prevent SEGA from being able to export the game to Western territories without [[BadExportForYou heavily gutting the songlist]]. But hey, WMG is dumb theory zone anyway.--]

[-Okay yeah, the more realistic guess would be that Pony Canyon licenses prevent SEGA from being able to export the game to Western territories without [[BadExportForYou heavily gutting the songlist]]. But hey, WMG is dumb theory zone anyway.-]

Most likely, SEGA knows that all of this will be a pain in the ass at all levels and decided that us living vicariously through [=YouTube=] and niconico videos is less of a pain than "there's a ''maimai'' cab pair near my house but this button keeps triggering by itself and now I don't wanna play at all."