Konami has acquired In The Groove

[iPatcH]

Re: Konami has acquired In The Groove

CTRL + F: "NEWS FLASH: Konami has acquired In The Groove"

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CTRL + F: “acquired In The Groove"

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http://www.inthegroove.com

[Afrobean]

Re: Konami has acquired In The Groove

iPatcH, that's still wrong.

If you click that link, it clearly says that Konami now owns the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (which I suppose they owned all along and ITG was just infringing on them haha). Owning the intellectual property rights to something does not equate to owning the entire thing. All it means is that if RoXoR wants to make more ITG games, they'd have to get permission from Konami.

Why don't people understand things such as that? I just got done editing RoXoR's wikipedia article, because somebody added something saying "Konami now owns the ITG franchise."

[MixMasterLar]

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"INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS"

ok, I might be missing something here but that says to me 'if it has 4 buttons in a shape of a t, then Konami owns it.' so then SM,DWI,FFR, and countless others are illegal. This is not good.

And if that applise to DDR, then it goes with PIU,BM,ID,PM, etc. etc.

What can Roxor do that hasnt been done? ITG is dead and the chance that a new game will come are nill. my only Q on the matter is what will become of FFR? what will Synthlight do?

[Afrobean]

Re: Konami has acquired In The Groove

As long as Konami doesn't come after FFR (which they likely won't, due to what Synth said before), we'll be fine. Presumeably, the same can be said about Stepmania (like Synth also said before).

At least FFR and Stepmania have an ace up their sleeve anyway. ITG was essentially the same thing as DDR. FFR and SM tend to be played on keyboards and not on dance pads.

[nforcer06164]

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And to add to what Afrobean said, Konami would not profit in any way from attacking SM or FFR. SM and FFR promote DDR. ITG was a danger to Konami's profits, so it was logical to file a lawsuit. A lawsuit against SM or FFR would only cost money and slow the growth of a fanbase.

[Clocklover]

Re: Konami has acquired In The Groove

This is probably why ITG2 cs was "leaked" on bittorrent servers as well. ****ing america with our excessive use of lawsuits.

[WillTalbot]

Re: Konami has acquired In The Groove

Konami has horrible buisness practices. Instead of making a partnership deal with RoXor (which would lead to ITG being owned by RoXor, Andamiro, and Konami) they just rip the game right out of their hands.

[Eyoshi]

Re: Konami has acquired In The Groove

Konami has horrible buisness practices. Instead of making a partnership deal with RoXor (which would lead to ITG being owned by RoXor, Andamiro, and Konami) they just rip the game right out of their hands.

Actually, Andamiro has no ownership over ITG. They only made the cabinets for ITG2.

And there would be no deal because ITG is a rival competitor for dancing-game profits. At a random arcade, people won't care whether their machine is an ITG machine or a DDR one; they just consider it a dancing game. They might just buy one machine.

Also, if you were a chairman for Konami, would you continue a franchise that ultimately eats off your profits? No, you wouldn't.

[WillTalbot]

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My fault for mistakening the word "owned" with "co-owned" I do believe that Andamiro does have some ownership over ITG though, maybe it is unheard of but I think if I were Andamiro and I made the cabinets for ITG i would want a piece of the game itself.

[Neonatrias]

Re: Konami has acquired In The Groove

My fault for mistakening the word "owned" with "co-owned" I do believe that Andamiro does have some ownership over ITG though, maybe it is unheard of but I think if I were Andamiro and I made the cabinets for ITG i would want a piece of the game itself.

Andamiro only made the cabinets, end of story.

[duhh_]

Re: Konami has acquired In The Groove

all- in - all, this spells out the end for itg

[Snapps]

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im still so god damned confused

[MixMasterLar]

Re: Konami has acquired In The Groove

As long as Konami doesn't come after FFR (which they likely won't, due to what Synth said before), we'll be fine. Presumeably, the same can be said about Stepmania (like Synth also said before).

At least FFR and Stepmania have an ace up their sleeve anyway. ITG was essentially the same thing as DDR. FFR and SM tend to be played on keyboards and not on dance pads.

Yeah, your right, we're safe =P

im still so god damned confused

about what? Konami owns the button layout, AM dosnt own ITG, DDR is now king (but FFR.com is the real boss), and Roxor is gonna die.

the end.

[WarriorXero]

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So THIS is why everyone's suddenly posting vids on Youtube about getting the ITG2 beta on their PS2s. Because now that this happened everyone just HAD to get it. x_x;

Personally, I didn't like the idea of ITG until I stepped on the pad. Then I refused to get off until all my money was blown. Lots of songs on there have become my favorites, and damned if I'm going to let them not get released where I can play them on a pad! (I can't get a USB pad right now, so...)

[ape0]

Re: Konami has acquired In The Groove

well this sucks