Here's a great article about Stardock from a local website.

http://plymouth-mi.patch.com/articles/plymouth-based-software-game-development-company-looks-to-future

In lieu of a front-desk receptionist is a young, bearded man in a purple t-shirt, cut-off shorts and flip-flops. This is Matt Bertsch, a technical adviser for the independent software company. On his desk sits a variety of emptied craft-beer bottles, statuettes, a variety of props and an opened deck of playing cards.

Bertsch explains that the usual receptionist just moved to Dallas for other Stardock-related duties as he retrieves Brad Wardell, the president and CEO of Stardock, who occupies a top-floor office with his dog.

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on Jul 13, 2011


Quoting navigatsio, reply 26

And obviously Stardock is a business (WC is a website) and if desktop enhancements no longer prove profitable (and I'm not saying they aren't), shouldn't more emphasis be placed on products that are? If it were your business, what would you do? Skinning IS changing and will continue to change and although it's a hobby I love, if it ended tomorrow I'd be disappointed but it wouldn't be an earth shattering event by any means.

k10w3: I agree with you 100%, however, right now, I don't see the point to renewing my ObjectDesktop software if it's just going to stay the same.  I can always renew when/if something new and improved happens with it.  I renewed last time out of hope/faith that it was going to be improved.  Fool me once....

I'm with you. Just went to Registrations to see when my subs are up, which now redirects to the new Stardock MyAccount, and I don't even know when my subscriptions expire. Previously Impulse would let me know when my sub was about to run out, now how will I know?

I've been a Stardock/Wincustomize supporter and customer for over 7 years, and it makes me really sad to see how steadily the quality and service had declined over the past few years.

on Jul 13, 2011

I've heard some rumblings about Stardock Central, or something new coming up soon that will be Impulse for just Stardock stuff, mostly for the desktop side- but that was a while ago.  Unsure what's going on there.

 

 

on Jul 13, 2011

Bebi Bulma
Previously Impulse would let me know when my sub was about to run out, now how will I know?

You can go to My Account-->Past Orders-->and then add a year on to the date of your last order.

on Jul 13, 2011


Quoting Bebi Bulma, reply 31Previously Impulse would let me know when my sub was about to run out, now how will I know?
You can go to My Account-->Past Orders-->and then add a year on to the date of your last order.

Imprecise, but I guess it works. Although...it doesn't help if someone else purchased the subscription as a gift.

on Jul 13, 2011

Alstein
I've heard some rumblings about Stardock Central, or something new coming up soon that will be Impulse for just Stardock stuff, mostly for the desktop side- but that was a while ago.  Unsure what's going on there.

You heard correctly. Didn't recognize you as a panda, you little monkey you! Missed seeing you around!

on Jul 13, 2011

Bebi Bulma
I've been a Stardock/Wincustomize supporter and customer for over 7 years, and it makes me really sad to see how steadily the quality and service had declined over the past few years.

So, an issue of the expediency of timing re the Impulse sale equates to a steady decline of quality and service?

Not all that long ago, Impulse was the spawn of Satan and reviled by all.  Now it's sale [which directly impacts upon the ongoing viability of Stardock's skinning apps and Stardock as a whole] equates to the sky is falling.

Now, I, too have been a Stardock supporter/customer, however for an even longer time [probably 12 years] and in that time nothing has changed at all. [though I did get older].

Every now and then products/delivery systems evolve.  Sometimes there are overlaps or gaps in functionality/success....eventually they are resolved.

No-one dies, the world doesn't end and the sky still hasn't hit the ground....

on Jul 13, 2011

Wasn't referring to Impulse specifically Jafo (and it seemed like it was only the gamers viewed it as the Spawn of Satan, and now who gets to keep it? They do.). More about the less frequent updates, new enticing features and incentives that were later abandoned (premium skins for subscribers, photo albums from the older version of WC), all the hype and eventual let down of new versions of favorite programs (OD2), and so on. To say that "nothing has changed" seems a bit naive or in denial to me. They keep bringing out "new fantastic tools" (Fences, etc) that are cool in their own right, but then the products that originally brought us here (Windowblinds, OD, DX) are now ill-fated step-children.

on Jul 13, 2011

I will just have to wait and trust the Old Experienced ones, like. No I'm not going to say it, why not. 

Sorry Jafo.

on Jul 13, 2011

My main concern with all of this waiting is as old as I am I will probably be taking a nap when the news of updates and new programs gets announced and I will miss the party. 

on Jul 14, 2011

Philly0381
My main concern with all of this waiting is as old as I am I will probably be taking a nap when the news of updates and new programs gets announced and I will miss the party. 

on Jul 14, 2011

Philly0381
My main concern with all of this waiting is as old as I am I will probably be taking a nap when the news of updates and new programs gets announced and I will miss the party. 

John, just keep making those great suites and leave us to worry about updates for the programs that make the stuff for you.

Now I see you have just read this so go take a nap.

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