Impulse Phase IV Released
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
Stardock is excited to announce the release of the fourth phase of its popular digital download platform, Impulse .
Impulse enables users to quickly purchase, download, install and update any of thousands of available games, applications, and utilities to their machine. Once purchased, the program becomes associated with their account. If a user purchases a new PC or reformats an existing PC, a user can install Impulse, log in with their account and instantly re-download all their programs.
In the year since its initial release, Impulse has garnered widespread support from major game and application publishers. Most new PC games, for example, are now released on Impulse and a growing number of application developers are releasing their titles on Impulse as well.
“The objective of Impulse is to make it so that your software truly belongs to you,” said Brad Wardell, president & CEO of Stardock . “Anyone who has ever dug through boxes of CDs or looked through old emails to find a serial number can recognize the advantages of Impulse.”
In addition, PC gamers will soon be able to make use of a new Impulse feature called “Ready to Play”, a revolutionary new free program that allows users to create instant virtual communities based on profiles in order to quickly get multiplayer games going with like-minded people.
“Imagine Match.com or eHarmony for PC gamers where users enter in their gaming preferences and some profile data and with that data, Ready to Play can recommend other gamers with similar gaming preferences. My idea of what is ‘fun’ in an online game is probably different from that of say a teenager,” said Wardell. “With Ready to Play, now you can quickly get games going with ‘recommended’ friends.”
Ready to Play will go into wide beta as part of the Impulse Phase IV roll-out this week. To learn more about Impulse visit www.impulsedriven.com .
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Reply #44 Friday, September 11, 2009 8:20 PM
Reply #45 Friday, September 11, 2009 8:39 PM
Quoting MIK,
reply 41
Don't like it. Well like it but No useful change. Demigod Demo is still visible even with "show demo" unchecked.
right click the demo icon and click "hide"
I know. But what's the "show freeware & demo" option for then? However that was a minor thing, my greatest complain is how prices are shown.
Reply #46 Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:14 PM
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Reply #41 Friday, September 11, 2009 7:38 AM
Don't like it. Well like it but No useful change. Demigod Demo is still visible even with "show demo" unchecked.
Two things I think must be changed. Background. Why can't we choose skin, at least basic one, like steam? Just to avoid this killing white background as an imposed thing.
Most important, get back dollar pricing. I want to see the original price in dollar close to the euro one. Don't be like steam where I have to check sites to know regional prices and fake exchange rate and find out how much I'm being ripped off. I know most of your prices are in dollar and then exchanged to the user currency (whose exchange rate is no more visible), with few (but still there) cases of regional pricing. I think it's a matter of transparency. You are removing that and it's no reassuring.