I use my DS primarily on the bus to/from work, where stereoscopic 3d is impossible to use. I wouldn't use it much anyway due to the eye strain and in particular the difficulty I had adjusting back to normal vision after watching this fake 3d for a while (which would be rather bad when walking home). So for me its a normal DS at a much higher price tag with worse battery life. I haven't seen anything that gets me interested.
Don't recall anything ever being said about it, you could try emailing [email protected] and asking them. TBH with the amount of stuff that was talked about for Elemental that never materialized, I wouldn't get my hopes up too far. What you can do is go to Impulse Anywhere , grab the archive, and make a disk yourself.
[quote who="MxM111" reply="6" id="2916874"] It is just at this point, I wonder, if it is even smart for Stardock to spend resources on trying to improve the dead horse (I am a bit exaggerating here) and instead focus everything on expansion, which will be free anyway for most of the elemental players. Please Stardock, prove me wrong with patch 1.3![/quote] You're not the only one thinking that. Since so many people are getting FE free anyway, I'm not sure why they're
Wow, lotta passion on this subject. :) My owner on the left has a vet appointment today and I have to dig out of a snowstorm so I apologize to anyone I don't have time to reply to. [quote who="WhiteElk" reply="110" id="2916532"]Oops I do want to say one more thing today.... Quoting Tridus, reply 94 That's not Gamestop being evil, that's Gamestop not wanting to be on the hook for 50,000 boxes of something they can't sell and that just sit in a warehouse. If my
[quote who="StarReaper" reply="79" id="2916268"]What people are upset about Brad is you sold Impulse to Satan.[/quote] I thought Steamworks was the Great Satan around here? [e digicons]:omg:[/e] [quote who="WhiteElk" reply="88" id="2916363"] This move seems to be at such odds to much of what CEO Brad Wardell has been telling us, that it makes more sense to me as a prank. [/quote] He's also an owner of a business, and has to do what's best for the business
[quote who="Fistalis" reply="90" id="2916370"] With elemental and gamestop we were given no warning.. and only after we have purchased and supported it do we get to find out we are stuck in a contractual relationship with gamestop, not only with elemental.. but with ALL Our impulse purchases. Only options we have been left is to give up our games.. or accept whatever terms/conditions gamestop decides to add to impulse. Of course this is after we have given stardock/impulse our money so why do
The problem here is that the new threads about it are being made by new people, who just bought the game. So I don't know who your rant is aimed at. Those people aren't going to read it, since they're not here yet. (At least, the ones that aren't about Gamestop buying Impuse are... because those ones are a totally different can of worms.)
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="63" id="2916217"] Quoting Tridus, reply 56At the rate they're locking threads today, I kind of wonder if anything with a pony in it will be locked next. I just think some people have too much time on their hands. People seem to invest a lot of energy looking for something to be outraged about. I guess I shouldn't be surprised given how much vigor I put into debating the merits of OS/2 vs. Windows back in the day. Only
[quote who="Firgof" reply="72" id="2916245"]I was quite saddened. I really do like Impulse as a platform and its staff as we knew them were great. Yet, that is not enough I'm afraid. To be clear: The game will not be pulled just yet. It will not be pulled until the 'keys change hands' so to speak. That should be sometime in May. (All current users will still be able to update their game and et cetera. By Pulli
At the rate they're locking threads today, I kind of wonder if anything with a pony in it will be locked next.
[quote who="RogueCaptain" reply="96" id="2916119"]Okay, let's say hypothetically if it was true for arguments sake, then why would Brad do this? To give Steam a nice big middle finger, that's why. Steam has been using it's position to make life hard so Brad thinks okay I can do that too and joins forces with a major retailer. Thus any product who uses Steam loses out with Gamestop and Impulse can't be laughed at by steambois anymore.[/quote] He d
[quote who="onomastikon" reply="20" id="2915966"] Quoting onomastikon, reply 12Can someone explain to a computer idiot how to back up games to disk from impulse please? Thank you. Is this actually possible, or was that poster being facetious?[/quote] It's possible. You can either right click on the app in Impulse and pick "Archive" to make an offline copy, or you can use Impulse Anywhere to download an off
[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="83" id="2916002"]Are people actually taking this seriously? I guess you should go order that Starcraft motion technology console title they announced too. [/quote] Honestly, how bloody stupid do you have to be to think that a publically traded company would announce to investors a fake acquisition in the same announcement as a real
[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="41" id="2915996"]Way too obvious AF guys. Gamestop already has their own store with digital downloads, though you'd have to brain damage to support them and their $5-10 markups on everything.[/quote] This AF nonsense needs to die. It was posted on Gamestop's investor relations website. Publically traded companies, the stock markets, and the SEC do not have a sense of humor about making up fake acquisitions.
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="80" id="2915960"] Whether or not the transaction actually completed is irrelevant, the deal is already worked out and announced, the "when it happens" doesn't change anything.[/quote] Completely untrue. If Stardock decreases the value of Impulse before the transaction is completed by coming out and saying "Gamestop sucks, use Steam instead" it can lead to several outcomes including: a) lawsuits b) altering the transaction as the a
Okay, that fighter combat is pretty sweet looking. Keep posting updates here, it looks pretty good. :)
[quote who="Rebell44" reply="345" id="2915683"]1. Now, when Impulse is being bought by GameFuck eh... Gamestop, will Stardock sell its games on Steam? 2. Looks like non-gog version of Witcher 2 will use Steamworks http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showpost.php?p=13026222&postcount=501[/quote] Wow, good question. I still have that ordered on Impulse.
[quote who="Alstein" reply="26" id="2915823"]They got pissed once when the WWE did a storyline about an acquisition, so the SEC part is legit. That said, this should have waited until Monday to avoid the April Fools suspicions. [/quote] Gamestop has an investors conference call on Monday, and they've got both this deal and another deal at the same time. It makes no sense for them to wait to announce it until right bef
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="59" id="2915711"]If Impulse had to be sold for financial reasons fine, necessary evil. But honestly trying to spin it as if it's some great boon to the PC gamer community is more of a slap in the face.[/quote] The transaction hasn't actually been completed yet. If it was done for financial reasons, would you REALLY expect Brad to come out and say "yeah we had to sell it for the cash to pay for the FE team and those evil Gamestop suckers had what w
[quote who="ozo" reply="48" id="2915651"]I belive this only if this is kept up for a week at least. Really. Sometimes April Fools' are just done very convincingly. I don't belive anything said beetween March 31-April 2...[/quote] When it's posted on the financials pages of a publically traded company (like Gamestop), you should believe it no matter what day it's posted on. Investors and the SEC do NOT have a sense of humor. A friend of mine predicted
[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="26" id="2915554"] However in teh 2010 Consumer Report it stated Impulse made more money that their other business interests.[/quote] Hmm, missed that. Then to sell that they probably decided it was drawing attention away from the other parts of the business, and/or Gamestop showed up with a dumptruck full of cash. Gamestop is a $3 billion market cap company with $377 million in net profit last year. If they were serious about wanting Impulse they could
[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="27" id="2915561"]No no no No! At least steam is a privatly held company. I won't use steam and passed on Civ5 over issues of privacy, security, reliabilty, and license ownership. If I don't trust steam how can I trust a corporate entity!? Particularly one who just last month got slapped with a class action lawsuit for their handling of customer credit card info!?! And one who last year faced a suit for deceptive DLC advertising!?! &
[quote who="FutileEmotion" reply="13" id="2915528"]Smart move by Gamestop, but I get the feeling that Stardock just cut off its best performing revenue stream. Can't say I'm happy about Gamestop being the purchaser. In theory, this will let the Stardockians focus on developing their PC games and apps..we'll have to see how it plays out.[/quote] From what they've said in the past, I suspect that licensing their desktop tools to OEMs is the real core revenue
[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="18" id="2915541"]I thought Impulse was paying the EWOM and FE staff... does this mean they're toast? did you make enough money to retire and spend the rest of your life making computer games ... oh wait, that's what you do already?!?![/quote] No, that's Stardock Games, which is part of Stardock. Impulse is the distribution platform.
Could be a game changer if Gamestop starts saying "we won't sell games that aren't on Impulse".