RedOctane End of Summer Sale

J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

RedOctane is holding a special sale to celebrate the end of summer. For a limited time, they are offering In The Groove (PS2) for 19.99, a $20 savings, and the ITG Bundle for $39.99, a $30 savings! Sale ends 9/30/05. Maximum 2 items per household.
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Heffenfeffer · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Location: Las Cruces, NM

I'm wondering why they've cut the price of ITG in half - possibly sales of ITG were slower than anticipated?
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Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

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DAF · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Location: In CP

man and i paid fourty for it. oh well. i guess this means the ddr fanboys (even though i am one) don't have a reason to at least try in the groove.
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yyr · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:12 am Post subject:

It was worth at least forty bucks, so I consider myself as having gotten a good deal already.

Seriously, if you haven't yet tried this game, and already have pads for DDR, give it a shot. If you don't like it, you can probably sell it or trade it in and get most of your $20 back, so it'll just be like you paid for a rental or something, no big deal. And if you do like it... congratulations, welcome to the future of dance games.
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Rainault · Trick Member Joined: 21 Mar 2004

Sweet! Now is definitely the time for me to buy this game. I've never played ITG before, so this will be a great opportunity. I also plan to purchase my first Cobalt Flux pad. This is gonna kick so much buttocks.

I just hope the horrid load times I've been hearing about don't discourage me from this game.

Looks like it's time for this DDR fanboy to convert.

Shoopufzilla · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: Slow ITG sales?

mavrik_055 · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:57 pm Post subject:

Cool, i was gonna buy this last week, but i decided against it. I need a new pad, too, so this works out great!
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MadTaco · Trick Member Joined: 26 Apr 2005

What was so bad about the game? I'll admit, it took me a little over two days to warm up to it, but I avidly play both DDR and ITG now. I really don't prefer one over the other most of the time.

Back on topic, I'd say Cutriss' post pretty much hit the point; they just don't want to be outshined by a new release in the already limited field of the genre. Then again, reports of poor sales have been heard, but I haven't seen any proof of them being reliable.
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Apu · Trick Member Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Plant City, FL

Well, I might as well try it out. It looks fun but it probably cant beat DDR, and besides I need a new pad XD. I theink ill get the fluxpad or something.
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YoshiFan · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jul 2002

Ordered. I wanted the game but I'm someone who never pays full price for any game and I don't think it will ever be less than $19.99 so I figured now is the best time to order.

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PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:01 am Post subject:

Actually, if you do the research and run the numbers, you'll find as I did that somewhere between 85% and 95% of DDR veterans will prefer In The Groove after trying it for a while. I was perhaps a bit biased earlier in quoting only the upper bound, but it's a fairly tight confidence range so I'm sure I'll be forgiven. That's not an anecdote, that's a statistic. (Admittedly, this is based on arcade, not console, and takes ITG2 into account, so the numbers for the console version might be slightly different, but the theory is the same, and it's unlikely that the numbers would drift drastically. I don't really care too much about console.)
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Apu · Trick Member Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Plant City, FL

Hey, Its human nature to have different oppinions. Cant we all just get along? Even if im a DDR fan over ITG. But its still a good deal for a game that was $40. I think DDR is the better game over # of fans and editions out.

stupidbarber · Trick Member Joined: 28 Feb 2005

Although I really like some of the tunes on ITG2 (the console version, that is) I hate the delay between songs so much that I almost never play it. Particularly depressing is the delay that you are forced to endure if you fail a level, get life depleted, and have to re-load the whole game. I timed it - minimum of 45 seconds to get back up and playing again. It would be great if I'm wrong and there is a trick to get around this - anyone?