Comments on: Sins of a Solar European Release Schedule

By: po

po — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:54:26 +0000

It costs extra for a vendor to support Visa Electron in addition to plain Visa, so a lot don’t bother. Barclays finally realised Electron is crap and switched to proper Visa for their debit cards, so I can finally get rid of my credit card. Paypal works OK if you have a bank account that can do direct debits though, and it’s a pretty poor online seller who doesn’t support it these days.

By: Saskwach

Saskwach — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:40:07 +0000

Sweet! Thanks MeestaNob.

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:14:10 +0000

Nice. Now, correct me if it’s already here, but is there a confirmed date when it will be on retail Down Under?

According to dstore.com.au it should be out today (24/4).

JB’s, EB etc should all have it then, assuming the date hasn’t been pushed back.

By: Saskwach

Saskwach — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:41:09 +0000

Nice. Now, correct me if it’s already here, but is there a confirmed date when it will be on retail Down Under?

By: Lightbulb

Lightbulb — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:15:46 +0000

Because you don’t need it running to play games?

By: Cigol

Cigol — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:48:49 +0000

Oooh, quite nice! Certainly a lot neater and easier on the eyes. Loads up faster, seems zippier… all in all quite impressed.

I still had to enter my sins serial ( :) ), but I guess that’s my fault as it was registered to my paypal email address. I’m hoping it will now be linked to my account in future as it picked up my GalCiv purchases fine.

Only complaint so far; why do Stardock not implement any minimise to system tray option?

By: Cigol

Cigol — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:27:29 +0000

I wasn’t aware the Impulse beta was open, downloading it now so I’ll check it out thanks.

By: Mr. Brand

Mr. Brand — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:26:57 +0000

Impulse lets you download the game by simply logging in with your Stardock account. At least it didn’t ask for any serials to let me install Sins, GalCivs and Windowblinds. Check out the beta.

I’ve never had a place reject my Visa debit (Visa Electron/Visa Classic), even if it was in the us. Perhaps RPS should do an article on online payment :)

By: Cigol

Cigol — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:09:48 +0000

Being picky, I don’t like the way Stardock do purchases. You have to have your serials to hand, unlock the game manually, then download. With Steam I just login to my account and it’s as simple as that. Hopefully this new Impulse they are going to roll out (eventually) will do something similar because it’s a bit of a ball ache at the moment – enough to warrant a physical copy.

…but I still paid for mine over the internet! :D

By: Janek

Janek — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:52:12 +0000

I assume that’s what other folks are talking about. I suppose there are ways to pay without either, but I would think they’d be pretty convoluted.

As I say, some debit cards occasionally have problems internationally, which is where the perception of needing a credit card came from, I guess.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:41:23 +0000

When you guys say you don’t use a credit card, do you mean that you use a debit card instead? Because while they obviously have different back ends, for the vast majority of online purposes they’re indistinguishable to the website.

And I can’t think of very many sites that don’t want one of the two.

(I don’t have a *credit* card myself, but I’ve been doing “credit card” payments with my debit card for years now.)

By: Janek

Janek — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:28:48 +0000

I have run into problems before where (generally international) sites don’t like a Maestro debit card, even if they do accept, say, a Visa Electron.

But these days, even if they don’t accept it directly, you can go through third parties (PayPal or whoever) for most places.

(I can’t remember how I bought stuff with Stardock. Think I went through Paypal. Didn’t have any problems, though)

Regardless, it’s always nice to have a physical product, if only for the classic smell of new manual. Mmmmm.