Can't update via Impulse

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So, I installed Sins last night and set myself up and tried to get the patches.  Whee, now you have to get patches through Impulse, so I have to install another piece of 'we own your life if you want to play our games'-ware on my system.

Fine.  Whatever.  I'll just uninstall it once I have the patch.  Or so I think.  So I retrieve my account info, sign in, download Impulse, set it up, start it, authenticate, and go to the 'Updates' tab, where it says there is an update for Sins.  And I tell it to update.

It takes five minutes to 'prepare download'.  It then started to download, and then stuck at 2.1% downloaded.  I left it for eight hours.  When I got back it said 'invalid token'.

I restarted everything, changed a few network settings, and tried again.  It has now been going for about 60 minutes, and has downloaded a total of 14.9 megabytes.  It says it is downloading at 250 KB/s, which would imply that it should be done in around negative 45 minutes.  I'm honestly not sure if the thing actually managed to fully download last night or if it just hung somewhere and timed out.  In any case, we'll see if this one finishes too.  Or maybe I won't live that long.

This reminds me why I never, ever, ever buy computer games from dev houses larger than two or three people.  I want to buy your game, and you assholes think you own my computer, and then your product never actually works well anyway and I never get any kind of satisfaction.

Edit:  Oh, and 'gee, do you want support because our product isn't, y'know, working?  Well, ask your fellow players if they've figured out anything because we can't be bothered to have a support team to answer email or anything fancy like that.'

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Never mind.  This time, after about two hours, it suddenly started downloading at a reasonable speed.  And then the update apparently worked.

Whatever.  I don't insist things make sense any more, as long as they work eventually.

 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

so I have to install another piece of 'we own your life if you want to play our games'-ware on my system
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No - you only need to install if to PATCH the game. You can play the game (at whatever version you are currently at) without Impulse. This is NOT like Steam...

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top


This reminds me why I never, ever, ever buy computer games from dev houses larger than two or three people.  I want to buy your game, and you assholes think you own my computer, and then your product never actually works well anyway and I never get any kind of satisfaction.

Edit:  Oh, and 'gee, do you want support because our product isn't, y'know, working?  Well, ask your fellow players if they've figured out anything because we can't be bothered to have a support team to answer email or anything fancy like that.'

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Ironclad is a little bigger then 2-3 people, by about 6. Last I head they had 9 people working. Also, Stardock's support is some of the best around. Not only did the respond to my problem the same day, they even checked up a few days later when I didn't reply because I had been play Galactic Civ pretty much the entire time.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Ironclad had 9 when Sins came out, and are currently up to 11. :P