Don't get so excited now that you can't speel.

I've nothing against Impulse. Though I havn't happened to use it to buy any new games, it's worked well to update GCII-ToA and SOASE. I've bought a number of games from GamersGate, several Paradox titles/expansions and some third party games like King's Bounty (great game) and Civ4: Colonization (a surprising mess). I have had minor to moderate technical problems with GG (primarily, it has a habit of timing out a lot, and a large DL often has to be restarted a lot), but overall it seems a good site and is gamer-friendly. Like Impulse, it permits you to re-download your registered games forever. I need this, since I am too lazy to backup, and had to redownload Stardock and Paradox games last Fall when Vista completely crapped out and required reinstallation. (Which is why I bought KB from them rather than Atari-who actually had the audacity to impose an additional charge for only limited downloading (a year IIRC) beyond an inital 30 days. Even better--GG had the current patched version of the game from the Russian developer, which Atari refused to release for weeks.)

So both GG and Impulse are quality services IMO, and while I'm glad that Paradox may get exposed to a larger audience through Impulse, I'll continue to purchase Paradox titles through GG. Given that GG is owned by Paradox, I assume they profit a bit more from purchases on that site--and reasonably supporting quality independent developers like PI and Stardock is a good thing. Please understand, this is nothing against Stardock and Impulse--all else being fairly equal, I'll purchase Stardock games (like Elemental) from Impulse even if they are also available on GG.

Just what I wanted to hear Zoomba... thanks for the heads up! 

Regarding Marlowe's post... I tend to agree with your position and it has been mine from day one. I want the guy who make the game to get the majority of the profits. With that said, an interesting thing for them to do would be to spinoff Impulse and both companies take a 50% stake in it that way they get the benefit of both worlds with would replication of overhead and a stronger market position in sum. But again more wishful thinking on my part...

Do you have a Gamestop anywhere?  I just got it there for $9.99 USD (in Michigan).  It seemed so wrong and yet . . . so right!  Now, to find an entire day of my life to devote to learning it.

Outstanding news!  Will keep my eye open for EU3 Complete.   

 

   "I'm in ur Base... Beating ur Dudes!!"          

haha, good news!!!

-Teal

 

EU III and expansions are now available on Impulse. 

And Hearts of Iron 3 later this year!

HoI2 was excellent but Supreme Ruler and Global Conflict are horrible.

Victoria beats them all. 

Excellent news!

Yep! Vici is the bomb for those type of games.

I think there's a misconception that Gamers Gate is owned still by Paradox.  Check out this interview with GamersGate CEO Theodore Bergquist, over here (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/the-gate-keeper).  Specifically:

"Q: Historically GamersGate was part of Paradox Interactive - do you still maintain that relationship?

Theodore Bergquist: Yes, it's both ways. GamersGate is a completely separate entity with separate management, budget, goals and so on, but it did start as a project under Paradox because their community demanded some downloading services, because they couldn't buy the games.

The first traffic came from the Paradox community, and they're still into GamersGate, but as we grow their relative size is getting smaller. Certainly there are fans still buying Paradox games on GamersGate though. "

Yeah, when will retail keys bought in-store work for Genesis Rising? Bit unfair they don't work. Same with SupCom (etc.)

When the original publishers stop being picky with their cd key database.