I have a bad feeling about this too. Data mining here we come. At least SD had ethics. Now impulse is going to turn into another steam-virus clone, complete with DRM and as much advertising as they can cram into it. Oh well, so long impulse.

This. Looks like I should just give up gaming. Pretty much lost all faith in brad and stardock.. .

This is why I hate Digital distribution. I entered into a relationship with impulse.. being ran by stardock. Now they decide to sell Impulse.. so i either have to accept whatever terms/conditions Gamestop decides to add or i'm SOL on the games i've purchased. GD I wish I could buy  MOFO DVDs of games with no internet strings attached so i wouldn't have to deal with this crap. But no DD is the "way of the future" and we have to just accept that any contractual relationship we enter into is purely one sided for the  company and a huge middle finger to the consumer.

Thanks alot for selling your end of our agreement to some arsehole corporation. Leaving me to bend over and take it for a new corporate overlord in order to access games i've already purchased.Hope the fat wad of cash you made from this deal was worth screwing so many loyal customers.

Recommend tempering knee-jerk reactions and remain cautiously optimistic. No need to go all Chicken Little yet.

I hear ya. On a side note my squid friends are rather sensitive and would prefer use of the term octopus-shaped.

Confused: Hadn't Brad just posted a number of optimistic upbeat posts in the last two months about how digital distribution would play a key role in game evolution in the near future? But now he, who had a large stake in it, isn't particularly interested in holding that stake anymore? Ah well.

Can someone explain to a computer idiot how to back up games to disk from impulse please? Thank you.

You are really being over-dramatic about this.  You do realize that the other digital distribution outlets are also "corporations"?  People have already said over and over you are not losing your games.  Relax.

SD is keeping a DDL for its desktop side of the business.  I really think if Gamestop goes evil, it wouldn't be hard for Brad to start sticking his games there also- that's how Stardock Central, which became Impulse, got started.

Really, if Brad just announced that his games would also be going there, I'd have no worries at all.

Another one of my concerns- what about Stardock's beta cycle- would that be dependent on Gamestop? 

Is this actually possible, or was that poster being facetious?

Yes, it is. He asks as I mentioned it is a good idea.

wow, that's what I called unexpected!