[July] A New Approach To Music

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Hello Everyone!

I hope you are all enjoying the summer! I have some very exciting news to talk about today so let's get started!

Audition was one of the first PC games released globally to utilize real musical tracks as part of our monthly updates. Through the years, we have seen many other games emerge and evolve the genre of online rhythm gaming. From Facebook games to Mobile App games, today's rhythm gaming market has expanded the oppurtunities for the gaming industry and music industry to cooperate in order to provide a top notch experience for gamers.

Redbana US Corp., will be launching our new affiliated music sales service at www.RedbanaMusic.com with the new patch in July. This service will be in Beta Testing for now as we work out the kinks. The objective of this site is to create a medium for the players to obtain music for download and play in game as a premium service. Audition players will be able to purchase play time on particular tracks from the website, and not only be able to download the track but also share the music with others on Audition. As the purchaser, you will be able to host rooms and play the premium tracks for everyone in the room to enjoy.

Along with this new added service, we will continue to update Audition each month with free tracks just like before. Audition will always be a free to play game, with new music released monthly to be played for free. Now players will have the option to purchase premium tracks to enjoy through our new Music sales website.

American Audition will be the first server globally to offer this feature. Although we are not the first Rhythm oriented online game to offer this type of service in the American market, we feel that it is time for Audition to adapt to the popular model of premium paid content as an option and not a necessity.

www.RedbanaMusic.com will be open for testing as of the new July patch. You will see a new tab during music selection as the room host titled "My Music." All premium tracks will be labeled with a "D" icon. To obtain access to premium tracks, you simply proceed to www.RedbanaMusic.com and log in using your Redbana log in ID. Once logged in you can browse through the tracks we have in our catalog and sample the songs you like. Charging your account through our billing systems, you can purchase, download and enjoy the track as you please. Your account on Audition will be credited with the track's play time, and you will be able to create rooms to enjoy the premium track with your friends!

The eventual goal of this service has always been to provide popular music for our players. The Audition community has time and time again, suggested that we find a way to bring back the mainstream music to Audition. This project has been in the pipeline for quite a while now, I am excited to see the finish line. As we finalize the business end of this new feature, we will begin to introduce more "mainstream" music to our catalog. Please check it out and help us test the new features!

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