Funny how Valve and Stardock fit together like that. Brad Wardell of Stardock even said “You would have to pry Steam out of my cold dead hands.” Good to know, and I agree.
Steam in my opinion isn’t perfect, but it does it’s job well, with Steam, for the most part, I don’t have to burn gas going to the store, sure I can’t resell anything on there right now, but honestly I could care less. Being the kid who’s mom made him get rid of Doom and Doom 2 because they gave him nightmares, and regretted it ever since, I have atleast two licenses for each game now, one of which is on Steam, just for the convienience of download and install without thinking about it.
Impulse does that too, like Stardock Central did, it includes everything Object Desktop, Thinkdesk, and Total Gaming, but they are opening it up, imagine one click download and install even Firefox when you switch to a new PC or reinstall Windows, they plan on it! I especially like the fact that Impulse doesn’t have to open itself everytime you open an app I downloaded on it, will I dump Steam? No, never, I’d still probably buy a game on Steam first if it was on both, mostly that’s just habit. I still call Steam a “steaming pile”, but I like the convienence nonetheless.
the biggest advantage Impulse will have, that tempts me, is the possibility of REFUNDS!
Most stores carry crap for PC games now. So many don’t even make it to stores.