Stardock Launches Impulse: Steam's biggest competition

[ihira]

shio said:

ihira said:
Aren't they a little late to join?
So what are the advantages of this over steam?
Games selection is very weak compared to Steam/D2D.
Perhaps because its only launched 2 days ago but no ones going to jump unless theres a clearer reason too.

There are several advantages (and disadvantages). The biggest advantage however is that when you buy a game on Impulse, if you pay $5 more they will send you a retail copy of the game!

Or I could go to a local store and not spend the extra $5.  At that point this is no different from shopping online and totally defeats the purpose of digital copy.

Eitherway they need something revolutionary to steal customers from Steam / D2D which have established a fairly good reputation for digital downloads.  Steam is simply very easy and nice, and D2D while I've never used it seems well known and has a decent line-up of new and popular games.