EA Comes to Impulse!

By Island Dog Posted September 11, 2009 15:59:47

Impulse is proud to announce the addition of the Electronic Arts catalog to its growing library of games. Today sees the release of The Sims 3, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising, and Spore.

In The Sims 3, every Sim is now a truly unique person, with a distinct personality. Will your Sims be evil, artistic, insane, and romantic kleptomaniacs? It’s entirely up to you. Influence the behaviors of your Sims with traits you’ve chosen and watch how their traits impact their relationships and the neighborhood around them. Combine over 60 personality traits to create millions of unique Sims and control their lives. The Sims 3 is available for $49.95 at: http://www.impulsedriven.com/sims3.

Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 continues the alternative history strategy series with yet another tweak to the timeline. Facing certain defeat, with the Allies at their doorstep, a desperate Soviet leadership uses its own experimental time machine to save themselves. Going back in time, they ensure that the Allies never gain their technological advantage, saving their future selves. However, like all changes to the timeline, this has unforeseen consequences. Fight as the Allies, Soviets or the all-new Empire of the Rising Sun in this action-packed real-time strategy game. Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 is available for $29.95 at http://www.impulsedriven.com/redalert3.

In Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising, players learn what happened in the aftermath of Red Alert 3. This stand-alone expansion pack adds four all-new campaigns, more star-studded live-action movies to tell the ongoing Red Alert story as well as an all-new Commander’s Challenge mode where players must withstand the brutal onslaught of the world’s toughest commanders. Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising is available for $19.95 at http://www.impulsedriven.com/ra3uprising.

In Will Wright’s PC masterpiece, Spore, players take an amazing journey of creation as they guide their creature through five stages of evolution. Unleash your imagination as you make fantastical creatures, vehicles, buildings and spaceships. Players can show off creations and everything you make can be shared and used by other players. Explore your world and beyond with Spore, now available for $39.95 at: http://www.impulsedriven.com/spore.

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Ya, but think about it... Does DRM on EA games really matter? I mean, it's not like the quality of the games will have you coming back 10 years later to play them again. Heck, most of their recent releases would be lucky to see a week of play time if I were to buy them.

Tons of titles & publishers were already announced a few months ago... pay very close attention to Impulse swooping the distribution market(s), also.

EA somehow needed Ready To Play & Goo if only to refurbish their "current reputation" of availability without obstruction (yep, DRM principles... **AND SOOOOO WHAT**), anyway.

Superbly strange but wise alliance, SD.

While it's nice to see a larger selection of games available over Impulse, I'm not impressed that their DRM software has also come with them. I feel Impulse itself provides enough DRM that additional, third party software shouldn't be needed. I won't be buying any of them myself, however it's great to see Impulse expanding it's library and I look forward to giving you guys more of my money in the future. And Resident Evil 5 is bloody tempting.

What if I arleady have an EA game can I register my EA game with my Impulse account?

Coelocanth

reply 18

Quoting arstal, reply 14

Quick question: On Dragon Age, is the DRM not finalized yet or is it not using DRM?

Stated on the BioWare boards by BioWare devs that it's not SecuROM or Tages, but just a simple disc check. Now, seeing as that was the same thing used on the Sims 3 and it turned up here with SecuROM, my money's on Dragon Age getting SecuROM as well. But only time will tell. I'm sure the info will be on Impulse as soon as Stardock knows.

Well, it sounds pretty much official that the physical retail copies won't have anything but a disc check...sort of like the physical retail copies of Sims 3.

EA Comes to Impulse's North American customers!

Fixed teh thread title...

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you forgot the ONLY!!!!!

harpo

Well, the best way to show your displeasure at EA is to buy other games on Impulse instead.

EA will get a message from that, I'm just unsure it will be the right message.

EA comes on Impulse.

I hope that Stardock can eventually persuade EA to use GOO.

aLap

reply 31

EA Comes to Impulse's North American customers!

Fixed teh thread title...

Indeed. Europeans are second rate customers. I guess we're used to it. They'll probably sell it to us for €50 in half a year or so...

The only thing keeping me from uninstalling Impulse is my preorder of Elemental. I have bought GalCiv II and Sins, but I dont play em anymore.

Yes I am the undercast that is called European. I will not be looking among hundreds of games to find the few I am kindly allowed to buy.

Zoomba

reply 7

The Gamers Bill of Rights (what you're likely referring to) or our numerous statements regarding the efficacy of DRM solutions have only ever been in reference to the products we develop or publish ourselves.

Which is probably why Brad said in his blog post on Edge (second to last paragraph):

Brad Wardell

[H]ere are the steps Stardock and Gas Powered Games plan on taking: Announce the new principles and adhere to them (done); Try to get other publishers to sign on; Form a consortium;

Yes, trying to get other publishers to sign on and form a consortium really sounds like keeping it Stardock-only.

Fortunately that blog also states (last paragraph):

Brad Wardell

[I]t's the gamers who will end up driving something like this.

so I suggest noone buys any EA product from Impulse until they remove the DRM.

piderman

reply 36

Quoting aLap,
reply 31
EA Comes to Impulse's North American customers!

Fixed teh thread title...

Indeed. Europeans are second rate customers. I guess we're used to it. They'll probably sell it to us for €50 in half a year or so...

There are other channels to obtain the products they dont want us to purchase! The consept of publishing should be publish but then again maby they dont want us to pay for their products...

Rantoc

reply 39

There are other channels to obtain the products they dont want us to purchase! The consept of publishing should be publish but then again maby they dont want us to pay for their products...

NO! Do NOT pirate their products! If you pirate them all it shows them is that they really do need all that DRM crap. If you want them to stop putting DRM on games, stop buying them - and stop bloody pirating them too!

Kyanar

reply 40

My exact thoughts on this issue.

Concur.

Yes, notwithstanding the publishers' own unfortunate contribution to this, piracy should not be done. Period.

Sigh... Where's my Dragon Age?

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piderman

reply 36

Indeed. Europeans are second rate customers. I guess we're used to it. They'll probably sell it to us for €50 in half a year or so...

Here's some helpful hints on how YOU can fix that!

Make it so there's only one company responsible for distribution for every country in Europe.

Make it so there's only one ratings group for every country in Europe.

Set Stardock up with an office and staff in Europe.

Since I don't see any of those three happening, nothing to see here.

All the STEAM boys are crying.

Savyg

reply 44

Here's some helpful hints on how YOU can fix that!

Make it so there's only one company responsible for distribution for every country in Europe.

Make it so there's only one ratings group for every country in Europe.

Set Stardock up with an office and staff in Europe.

Since I don't see any of those three happening, nothing to see here.

Sure, look at Valve [e digicons]>_>[/e]

lokideath

reply 46

Sure, look at Valve

Yeah, I hear Europeans bitch about Valve all the time. I try not to listen.

Sadly, I don't know how to not listen.

Zoomba

reply 7

At no point did we ever say we wouldn't sell products on Impulse if they used a given DRM solution. Please do not confuse our own development and publishing principles with what we do as a digital store. They're two very different things.

The Gamers Bill of Rights (what you're likely referring to) or our numerous statements regarding the efficacy of DRM solutions have only ever been in reference to the products we develop or publish ourselves. It is our personal stance on the subject for products we have control over. We do not dictate to other publishers and developers how they must behave.

Impulse goes beyond just Stardock products.

Basicly it means the junk DRM methods EA use are still present on the games downlaoded form impulse. Enought said for me ot not want to buy anyhting.

I too will be avoiding any product containing SecuROM. It's a shame too, I really wanted to play Red Alert 3 after I participated in the beta. A shame EA doesn't wants to treat the paying customers as potential pirates.

Lets get one thing clear. DRM does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to stop all but the most casual of piracy. Any pirate who wants to copy the game and distribute it is going to do so, and they'll also end up with a nice clean version not containing any DRM. The paying customers on the other hand have to put up with the restrictions and inconveniences of DRM.

So lets look at the end result of DRM.. Pirates, no affected.. end up with a better product. Paying customers, inconvenienced and treated with distrust.

Ignore the word "doesn't" in the first sentence. A shame the edit button doesnt work. Get an access denied error in the script below.

http://islanddog.impulsedriven.net/js/tinymce/tiny_mce.js