Since Stardock no longer has a stake in Impulse/Gamestop, why not release on Steam?

Impulse is somewhat annoying but I for one never ever have the program start except maybe once every few weeks or months when a new Sins patch comes out.

It's not a problem. Just take it out of Startup or autorun or wherever it is and forget about it.

It is believed Stardock had to keep their games Impulse exclusive for a while, perhaps a year. After that they might move elsewhere. But honestly I haven't seen Impulse change at all, the desktop adds were added while it was still under Stardock and can be disabled easily enough. Just full out "exit" the thing on the status bar and it should only start when told to.

Further, I advise that the Devs add custom map sharing to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.

Yeah, as GoaFan77 said, Gamestop hasn't really done much to Impulse so far. Impulse isn't adware, those ads can be stopped in the menu. Impulse is the least most invasive digital distribution I have ever seen.

Accidental double post, I guess I can't surf the internet and play Stronghold Kingdoms, apparently this machine is too feeble for that.

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WTF 

Is that the new Stronghold? If it is out you guys will not see me for a while. Stronghold was a favourite (except Legends).

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I did like the SteamID system where I could ban anyone from my games no matter what name [smurf] they tried. 

(soy argentino hablo spanish) trinity lo compre en impulse hace mas de un mes, y todo estuvo mas que bien, lo descargue , cerre impulse y me olvide de él, solo recuerdo el nombre. no me aparecio ninguna ventana emergente, ni nada en el desktop.

ok impulse, very good. (es mas si quiero enterarme de otros programas, etc, tengo abrir impulse e ir hasta la pestaña "explorer" porque si no no se de otros programas games)

Some people would complain if you hung them with a new rope.

Heck I would, the old one is more likely to break before it kills you.

Further, I advise that the Devs add custom map sharing to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.

This guy got Sins from Impulse and hasn't had a single problem with it. No pop-ups etc.

una ves hace mucho, para probar un juego tuve que instalar steam (needed steam installed) woooo! la instalacion tardaba million hours?! y lo que faltaba nada mas era una ventana "top secret" "warning" "copyng backup 2/3 for your security"

tambien no se entendia facilmente como se usabae  el software...etc...

despues de esa experience lo pienso más de dos veces antes...

recien open impulse y aperecio 1 pop-up small abajo a la derecha with game disscounts, que casi ni me di cuenta

Steam toma un tiempo para instalar, pero no he no he tenido ningún problema con el programa. Los dos Steam y Impulse están muy bien en mi opinión.

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en ese momento no estaba al tanto de juegos, etc, aparte fue solo una experiencia, capaz yo que no estoy tan empapado en esto y se poco ingles me resulte mas facil impulse

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in that moment it was not the so much of games, etc, separated was alone an experience, capable me that am not so soaked in this and you not very English it is me but easy it impulse

Yes, the new Stronghold MMO, well the beta version, which is better than nothing. I recently took a gamble on The Stronghold Collection, and was impressed which led me to Firefly Studios and what they are up to, Stronghold 3 and Stronghold Kingdoms.

When Stardock released SOASE originally, they put no copy protection, and essentially allowed players to "obtain" the single player mode for free (Assuming you didn't want to buy the game legitimately)

Multiplayer mode required you pay them money.

I remember Stardock posting that if people wanted to pay for a quality product, they would.  Otherwise they were happy with their game simply being played (Although I'm positive they are more happy with playing and paying customers!).

If it were released on steam, that statement would become void as Steam, generally, extensive copy protection on its products.

And that's still how it is now.

Not really. GCF extractors can easily extract many parts from Valve-Steam games (sounds images models etc), and third party games are often put on Steam in the same exact format their original developer presented it.

That is, if Sins were put onto Steam, it would probably be accessible just as it is now, but would be in a different location on your file system: that is,

C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity

would probably correspond exactly to

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity

(if Sins was put on Steam)

It would very likely either be put there or here:

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\STEAMUSERNAME\Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity

and from that location everything accessible from the Stardock file path would be accessible from one of the above paths. No copy protection. Especially not for third-party games.

The only difference would be really you have to be log in on Steam while playing, vs. not even running Impulse or having installed on your computer to play as it currently is.

I do remember Frogboy saying he would put their games on Steam if Valve let them sell their games via Impulse. Dont know where he stands on this now that they dont own Impulse anymore.

Not even that. Third party games can almost always be run from their location in the Steam folder, I'm pretty sure. I think even the Valve games can be run that way, although if you aren't logged in via Steam you won't be able to connect to secured game servers.

Of course one would have to know that you're able to do that in the first place, and one would have to know how to create shortcuts, but it's still pretty easy.