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[quote who="rivers_richard" reply="27" id="2921182"] As someone who bought WOM expecting it to be in working order, and after having waited 3 months for you to make good on the promises you made back in January to make WOM worth playing, I can say that I have no intention of "moving to FE" unless you're going to offer it for free to anyone who bought WOM.[/quote] That's already been done for everybody who bought in 2010. If you bought in 2011... realistically I'm not

[quote who="LujanD" reply="17" id="2921161"] An opinion I'm sure is shared by others. This doesn't explain your HOPING that Stardock halt all support on War of Magic.[/quote] Splitting limited resources two ways instead of focusing on one thing (FE) doesn't strike me as the best of plans either. The people working on WoM could instead be working on something like making MP in FE not-terrible (something which will likely never happen in WoM).

If you can't really afford it, then don't. You need to take care of your finances first. The expansion (Fallen Enchantress) is going to be the version to get anyway, and it'll be standalone when it comes out. So if your finances are better when that comes out, you should go for it then. :)

Maybe because the Impulse forums are going over to Gamestop, and these forums are shared across other Stardock sites. It's still there from the Elemental forums. :)

[quote who="Jubreau" reply="266" id="2920300"]Alright, so I read an interview from PC World concerning the sale and Brad says the following: If Impulse isn't best of breed technology, then what is, Steam?" says Wardell. "Steam is the most popular, to be sure, but technologically? Let me put it this way. The technology difference between Impulse and Steam is such that any objective developer who looked at the two would overwhelmingly...let's just say the gulf is signif

No. Odds are that will never happen in WoM. Possibly in the expansion because the MP details aren't out yet, but I wouldn't get your hopes up because the statements have looked like they're married to this "MP has to be a different game" mistake. TBH Stardock doesn't seem to "get" MP.

If you were to do a real poll, then you'd have to use proper selection methods. Forum polls are NEVER accurate due to selection bias. I mean, how many people interested in MP games are still here? Most of them gave up a long time ago.

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[quote who="shooter23843" reply="352" id="2916828"]This whole piracy thing is in the same topic of gun ownership. Gun ownership laws simply should not exist in my opinion, because criminals dont give a damn about the law, and will find ways around it. It is tragic when one man with an ak47 goes on a killing rampage and causes alot of shit for families and stuff, but you dont need to make it worse for innocent people who simply want to protect themselves. In the same sense, pirates will f

There was a big thread about this not too long ago, but the only answer seems to be that nobody knows. If they have plans to improve MP, they aren't telling.

They were active in the thread a few days ago .Was interesting because he admitted that Impulse had been good to them, then leaves anyway. I'm wondering if maybe a Gamestop employee ran over their dog. :P

The sales also mean people might buy games they wouldn't normally be willing to try, due to the lower barrier to entry. As for the question, Shogun 2. In large part because I don't have time to play it right now anyway. :)

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="1" id="2918645"]That's fair. Although I don't agree about the Bioware stuff entirely. After being purchased by EA, I just don't consider Bioware, Bioware any more. I know that's nerd-rage fanboi hyperbole and overly dramatic, but I AM a nerd, so that is how I feel [/quote] I think it went wrong when Mythic was merged into Bioware by EA. Then we got the fail of Warhammer Online infecting everything el

[quote quoting="post"] Derek Paxton is well known from the Civ IV modding community. At first it was thought that his role at SD would be as project manager, but as it turns out he is creating his own little game with the Elemental engine. From what we've heard apparently the developers are having a lot of fun using the new features of the system, at the consumer's expense. And the release time-frame of this 'game' (ie expansion) has been continually pu

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="202" id="2918468"] What if they'd sold it to Microsoft to merge into GFWL? Or Valve, to poach the users for Steam? It can always be worse. Both of those would be preferrable to me over GS, even though Valve isn't a realistic scenario. MS is much more realistic. There is nothing inherently bad about GFWL. It started as terrible as Steam, but it improved considerably. In DoW2 it still was iffy and ultimately Steamworks proved better - but at

[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="200" id="2918437"]One thing that keeps coming to mind... Impulse was the only option for some of us, who for various reasons, distrust ESD. Stardock was perceived by some as a trustworthy company. So Impulse provided us a way into the ESD market. The digital game market is growing but slowly. If more people had trust in it, developers might more quickly reap the rewards of gamers gone digital. Now that Impulse is

[quote who="Othello" reply="187" id="2917951"]Will there now be an option to download Elemental and SoaSE updates outside of Impulse? I'd much rather not deal with anything Gamestop. [/quote] Barring something very unexpected, no.

After trying to play Arkham Asylum yesterday and being delayed for 15 minutes by GFWL going through multiple "oh I forgot who you are, login again, oh patch!" cycles... yeah. Like my friend at Bethesda told me: "There's a reason we quit using it after only one game."

[quote who="onomastikon" reply="7" id="2917327"]I entirely agree with Alstein. So I was right in the assumption that Steam was needed, even if internet is not? Impulse seems much better![/quote] That's correct. Steam will always load when playing a Steam game. The game should work in offline mode though. Most people just leave Steam running in the tray and thus it's not noticable, which also lets the community features and the game auto-patching work. The Impulse tray

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EA's first attempt at a digital store did exactly that. It went poorly.

[quote who="FadedC" reply="160" id="2917180"]Speaking of annoying though, since I've installed Impulse on my new computer I've been getting constant pop up ads from them which interrupt me when I'm doing other things. I've heard you can disable them but they clearly don't make it obvious how to do that. They are way more annoying then anything Steam has. I never used to get things like that, it must be the new version.[/quote] Those have been in for quite a while,

[quote who="louist" reply="145" id="2917066"]How, exactly, are the hardcore anti-steam/pro-impulse crowd taking it? I've always been as skeptical of Impulse as I am of any digital service (that is to say, only very mildly), but some people on these forums have a fanatical drive to support Impulse and demonize the competition. I'd think they might be more shell-shocked than the rest of us. The faith they had in Brad's ethics no longer plays a roll, as Brad's ethics no longer pl

[quote who="bonscott" reply="123" id="2916657"] Gamestop - This is the other side of it is who bought Impulse. Gamestop is hated by PC gamers moreso then Steam. In fact much of the Steam popularity in the beginning was that gamers could get games *without* having to buy at Gamestop. (snip) So now for many gamers it comes down to the "lesser of two evils" between Steam and Gamestop. Yea there are other smaller players like GG but these are the

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="126" id="2916679"].but is anyone worried about the quality of Stardock's next release title? I'm not...let's all be thankful that at least Stardock will still be in the business of making good games...we could be facing a situation where Stardock flips like Firaxis did with Civ 5 and goes the mega-money, DLC, rush the release route...but we're not, we still got Stardock quality games and game support...[/quote] Well I am, but th