Impulse still sucks

[Asher]

Who here was saying it didn't? Still have nothing but ****ing problems.

So I already owned Dragon Age: Origins through Impulse. They had DA:O Ultimate Edition on sale yesterday, which included the expansion + original game + all DLC for $5 less than the expansion alone. Even though I already had the original, I purchased this.

It downloads, installs...

Then it asks me to register. I get the cd key for the Ultimate Edition from Impulse, paste it in the EA Games registration thingy. It tells me THANKS! I've registered.

So I log in, and I don't have access to ANY content other than the original game. It wants me to BUY the expansion and DLC.

I poke around the Bioware site and try to register the key as a DA: Origins game explicitly. It tells me it's not a valid code.

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[N35t0r]

I think that the only clear thing here is that you can't seem to even copy-paste properly

[Asher]

The root cause of the problem is thusly:

Impulse did not properly install Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate. It never created the "Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate Update Service" in windows services. The code was correct, that's why the website said I had the content, but I wasn't allowed to play it because this background service was not installed.

I installed it manually using installutil.exe (from the MS dev tools) and then it worked.

Impulse is like 0/4 for successful installs for me now. It's ridiculous.

[N35t0r]

Piracy

[Elok]

So...I should get MOO 1+2 from gog.com instead?

[Asher]

I'm not familiar with gog.com. I thought it was bankrupt and going out of business...last I heard anyway.

[Felch]

Nah, they're in business. I think that was just some publicity stunt or something. Personally, I've never had problems with Impulse. I've got several games from them, including Civ 4, and they all work fine. What else did you get besides DA:O that didn't work?

[Asher]

Sins & GalCiv 2 both broke after some Impulse-provided updates. Had to completely reinstall several times.

MOO 1/2 are both apparently not installed according to Impulse...though the games work when launched from the actual executables.

[Felch]

Weird. I've got GalCiv 2, and Sins, and haven't had any problems. I guess that's just bad QA.

For those willing to risk it, Impulse has DA:O Ultimate for $25 today.

[Nikolai]

Weird. I have never had problems with my Impulse games. Granted, they are few, most games I own digitally is on GG and Steam, but still...

[BeBMan]

Impulse is teh evil and should be wiped from the face of the Earth. Just recently I bought GalCiv2. I know it's kinda old, but I never played it, and thought now's the time since I haven't played anything for months. So far so good, got the hardcopy (Ultimate Edition which includes the two XPs) from amazon, but updating it to the latest patch via Impulse is an absolute pain - the download just does never start (though the patch 2.03 is displayed as available, and my GalCiv version is registered correctly) angry:

I never had something to do with Impulse before, is this a common experioence or should I contact their support?

[Asher]

Of my many issues, haven't seen that one before. Good luck.

[Nikolai]

I've redownloaded that game perhaps some 3-4 times since I bought it. Never had a single problem. So I'm sorry to say I don't know. Good luck!

[BeBMan]

Today it suddenly worked....after only three days of trying

[Proteus_MST]

Weird. I've got GalCiv 2, and Sins, and haven't had any problems. I guess that's just bad QA.

For those willing to risk it, Impulse has DA:O Ultimate for $25 today.

Same for me...
I had more problems during my short time with Steam (well, more exactly one problem...with Mount&Blade: Warbands which didn´t get supplied with the correct registration code...was however fixed after 2 days)
than with my years long experience with Impulse (never ever had a single problem with Impulse despite having several games there ... GalCiv2, HoI3, Sins and many others and having many of them successfully installed on my laptop as well as my main computer [and those that were my main cmputers before])