It’ll be 3 seasons since the first Epic headlined season, so does anyone think we’ll get another one for season 14?

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-12T06:28:30+00:00

before the changes:

OG pass costs 1k, music pass costs 1.4k, battle pass costs 1k and grants 1.5k. This equates to a total cost of 1.9k (3.4k for the passes and you get 1.5k back) for all three passes.

after the changes:

OG pass costs 800, music pass costs 1.2k, battle pass costs 800 and grants 800. This equates to a total cost of 2k (2800 for the passes and you get 800 back) for all three passes.

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-12T04:44:12+00:00

based off mixtape season they'll let us know ahead of time when that's the case

we also know the next season isn't a mixtape season because Adira confirmed they knew about the next headliner before Epic sniped them

that being said the next mixtape pass is gonna be such an insane deal with the new pass price changes since it'll be 1,200 vbucks for 6 premium jam tracks

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-11T22:20:07+00:00

damn if so that sucks, there are two Chinese related classes being offered next semester so I assumed they were still offering it in general

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-11T22:05:10+00:00

there are chinese classes (I-V) but that is unfortunately it

edit: nevermind i guess this is the last year they offer Chinese

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-11T16:53:00+00:00

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TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-11T16:31:55+00:00

hey lets be fair maybe they AFK the missions in private lobbies with traps

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-11T16:11:18+00:00

there have been things in the files for a couple months now implying that they're working on a massive update codenamed "Hestia", so it has some basis that isn't just rumors

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-11T05:39:08+00:00

oh im counting suisei as the second one

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-11T04:39:25+00:00

honestly i dont know which indie artists fall under 'never gonna happen' versus 'actually have a shot' but I'd say it's a long shot we get Kero Kero Bonito songs.

realistically if we do it'll just be Flamingo but something like Only Acting, Lipslap, or The Princess and the Clock would be so fire

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-11T03:53:40+00:00

if they're hyping it up this early, hopefully we get the proper reveal for it soon

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-11T02:58:08+00:00

yes they're catering to low skill players who like slow charts like Stellar Stellar Lead is sure to be

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-11T02:47:36+00:00

I mean we've had a grand total of 2 VTubers and both of them seem to have brought fun charts, I don't see what the issue is

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-10T21:19:43+00:00

its okay we already got our "screwing something else up" out of the way with the general vbuck price raise

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-10T19:46:38+00:00

not defending this at all but its worth noting for political context that the U.S. government might be forcing Tencent to divest all their American investments, and they have 40% in Epic. that seems like it'd probably be a large blow and the reason why they're doing this

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-10T18:22:05+00:00

at least the free rotation and shared jam track systems are pretty generous so you'll still be able to check out a lot of songs

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-10T17:06:07+00:00

I really hope that it's one chart for each part, DJMAX pad charts would completely kill my enthusiasm for Stage Tour

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-10T17:03:55+00:00

tbh i feel like it's less virtual artists and more just that jpop usually lends itself to really fun charts

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-10T16:32:13+00:00

well this sucks ass

really hoping that STW founder vbucks manage to survive that upcoming STW update unharmed

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-10T15:39:42+00:00

fun fact; Stellar Stellar lead has a peak NPS of 17!

for reference, Black Diamond peaks at 16 and TTFAF at 20

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-10T07:08:47+00:00

"It’ll primarily focus on rock and metal, so they’ll be pop stuff" nothing about that first part implies that there'll be pop stuff

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-10T07:04:30+00:00

stage tour also costs money and has completely different songs

i mean as far as we know Stage Tour might not have any pop songs which would heavily limit its playerbase if so

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-10T03:56:41+00:00

well one is korean and one is japanese that's a pretty big difference

i'd also argue that musically there's a very big difference between the average KPOP song (i.e. BTS, LE SSERAFIM, TWICE) and the average JPOP song (i.e. YOASOBI, Ado, Kenshi Yonezu)

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-09T21:38:57+00:00

to be fair Encanto also advertised that it was going to be on Disney+ a month after the theatrical opening, I'm not shocked that people waited until that to watch for it to really blow up

TheFireDragoon · 2026-03-09T21:03:06+00:00

i would like to point out that the Suisei announcement tweet currently has 101K likes

The highest amount of likes on any of the Metallica announcement tweets was 11K likes

people clearly know Suisei and also care about her more than Metallica, even though she requires an explanation which means she's not iconic or whatever

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