Audition Online is free to play, but earns revenue by selling virtual items such as clothes for the player's avatar.

Also players are free to have alternate and secondary dancers/accounts), and they compete in dance battles, against other players live, to popular Pop music songs, (in addition to original Audition exclusive songs), with the goal being the player must correctly input arrow commands, come up with their own freestyle rhythm commands, match sound effects in timing, or copy verbal dance commands from an NPC, (depending on Audition's many different game modes.)

[1] The North American/United States distribution of Audition, was published in early 2007, by Los Angeles based company Nexon USA.

Promotional material, included a commercial which was very frequently played on family networks such as Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, featured a young woman watching a music video on television, ("With Love", by Hilary Duff), and putting herself "in the Audition game", with other players, and an announcer in which he tells the viewers to "get into Audition".

[2] The release sparked controversy, as the music selection consisted of vulgar/inappropriate songs, lack of game updates/maintenance, and hackers using cheats during gameplay, and making their avatars deformed/glitched.

[9] The game was then also localised for the UK and European audience where publishers 'Alaplaya' and 'G4' had an agreement to have a joint server.

[10] Nexon, in 2009, decided to not renew its contract with T3 Entertainment in order to operate Audition Online, thus having the Japanese and American servers shut down.

In order to resolve this issue, T3 Entertainment subsidiaries Redbana and Hanbitstation published the game.

This decision was made in order to allow T3's subsidiary HanbitSoft the ability to publish Audition Online.

YD Online held the databases to Audition in South Korea, however, which prompted a server wipe.

While the "DJ" has the power to kick people out of the room and close the dance floor off, this generally has no benefit.

If a single/group game (not including NPC, One-Two Party and Beat Up modes) is full, a random event (also called a mission) may occur.

The Guitar Controller can be bought in the Korean version or earned from events in the North American regions.

Rhythmholic - Players hear a series of sound effects (cats meowing, dogs barking, etc.)

Shooting Stars - This mode plays similar to Beat-Up in which players strike notes when they move into their windows, but instead of a fixed two lanes, the notes are now all over the screen and it moves freely in many directions (an element similar to modern rhythm games like Osu!).

X-Beat (the Japanese version) seems to be the most distinguishable, with Hanbit Ubiquitous designing most of their clothing, limited to their server.

The Fashion Mall section is where users can purchase clothing, accessories or items that can boost their in-game experience.

These include clothing, pets, love licenses and rings (when users get married in game) and items such as the Date Planner.

(Other publishing portals include Daum and Hangame) (previously YDOnline/Ncucu) October 1, 2015 – present under HanbitOn Prev.

The North American/Global version of Audition Online recently had a Vote Up event, asking users to write reviews during their launch on the Steam platform in exchange for 40,000 BanaCash (equivalent to US$40).

Even though the North American/Global version is also known as the Fashion Capital of Audition regions, receiving new and updated Fashion Mall items before any other server and also receiving some X-BEAT (Japan's Audition) exclusive items, the North American region has had misfortune with patches.

The South East Asian version of Audition used to provide an unban system for hackers by paying real money towards the Asiasoft team.

The Vietnamese version of Audition almost underwent a publisher change back in 2009 due to a mistake from VTC Online, who failed to renew the contract with T3 Entertainment as of Sep 26 2009.

Even though VTC kept denying the claim, they eventually announced that it was indeed their fault and the three companies have worked behind the scene to solve this issue together.

[14] The Chinese and Hong Kong version of Audition has had trouble as well, some controversies including using the game and the game's forum board as a prostitution/sex service, using the forum board to sell drugs, having a child murder another child over 'virtual love'[15] and a 15-year-old girl getting pregnant meeting up a 20 year old guy on Audition.

Now, T3 Entertainment is hesitating to renew YD Online's contract or even make YD Online one of the portals toward Audition (portals are owned by different companies, allowing users to register or login to which company they want, and then connect to the one Audition server).

Because of T3 Entertainment's negligence towards the Korean version of Audition, the game will undergo a full server wipe with UI changes, new fashion items and more.

To compensate, Hanbiton is offering 100000 CASH (equivalent to 100000 WON) to players who pre-register their IGN (In-Game Name) before the 30th of September.

T3 and Hanbiton have done a very aggressive marketing strategy which was successful and has received a big percentage of their users back.