yes i've used impulse. the point i was making is why do i have to have a dozen different download programs all installed and running just to play games.
out of all the services i chose steam because its what I LIKE - its that simple
its stupid really, a boxed copy is shipped to ANY company and ANY country reguardless of competition. But online thats a different thing....WHY? why can only certain providers stock certain games. the only ones losing out is the companies themselves by not making games available to all customers through their provider of choice.
so what if valve games don't come out on impulse its their loss for the people who don't want to use steam, is stardock stupid enough not to sell games to customers who actually are asking for the service.
and yes i use the word stupid since they made sins without copy protection and does not require applications to run it.
PS. I can understand people not liking steam and thats fine but i haven't read one valid reason from the list above to hate it.
And you can play steam games OFFLINE. If steam cannot connect to their servers it AUTOMATICALLY goes into OFFLINE MODE which allows you to play ALL and ANY games you want to BOTH ONLINE AND OFFLINE. OFFLINE MODE just means that you cannot use the shop, community or steam achievements. you can also tell it not to update games which does work
