I was a longtime user of Object Desktop. For many, many years I subscribed and enjoyed getting new skins to apply to my computer. I still use Xav73's skins to this day. The lack of update to some programs was an issue at times but things generally got done. Then Impulse came out and we were told it would be wonderful and great and a new version of OD would come out and it would be world changing.
Not so much.
Impulse did keep things updated but I never saw much change in what was available that I wanted to use. Windowblinds still worked pretty well but the Mycolors stuff that attempted to take over for suites never worked right on Windows 7 for me and then several things started breaking that I'd been using for some time. I'd say it was my system except this happened on all windows 7 installs I tried it on. I found I had to do more fiddling to get things skinned properly. Personally, I still use suites and prefer them. It's too bad some of Xav73's objects he created for the desktop won't work under 7.
Impulse always seemed like just a way to push users to get games and advertise to us and get us to buy buy buy when nothing was really changing to make for a new GUI experience. Desktop X can kinda sorta make a complete change to your experience but it's not any different from what I can see from it's XP incarnation. Screensavers are sorta animated now but nothing earth shattering.
So, all this is to say, I didn't see much changing after I changed to Win 7 and installed OD. Really, it's nice and all but it's not moving forward. Things still take a lot of work if you want to skin your computer like the Enterprise (but why would you want to?) for example. And if I have to do lots of work to get everything just right it's not worth the $35 to re-up every year. Therefore, last year I let my OD subscription lapse for the first time in a long while. Today, I went back to see if anything new had been done by Stardock only to find the latest releases of new on the website are still TWO YEARS OLD! If the website is posting news that's that old, then I'm willing to bet the products haven't moved forward at all since I let my sub lapse. So, it would be a total waste of my money to re-subscribe.
What I want to hear from all you guys out there is this: give me a reason, give me several reasons why I should buy OD again. Why should I buy Stardock's stuff now? I don't want Impulse pushed games; that's not what I'm here for. I see Impulse is, mercifully, going away after the corporate <scam> buyout that I found rather revolting anyway. What I want is new skins that do new things to my GUI. What I want is the EASY ability to do wholesale changes to my GUI, not so it looks like OS/X but looks completely different, unique and fun to use and look at. I want that new GUI to make the use of my computer easier. That's what I want. Is Stardock and OD going to move forward and provide this?
Anyone, Bueller, Bueller?
I must admit that having read posts like this I've had some reservations about buying an ODNT subscription, so I've considered doing the same as Bebi and just buying one or two programs, then getting ODNT when things are better. But reading Frogboy's recent post has given me hope that change is just around the corner, so I will buy ODNT because I'm a bloody idiot with no financial sense I want to have that change on my computer, plus I'd like to become a bigger part of the community and contribute in some way.
Hell no! I'd rather subject myself to a lemon juice eyebath.
Hey, I resent that, my programs are PURFECT! lol
Alomst.
Not at all...as the OP refers to himself in the past tense..."was a longtime user". That infers he is no longer a user.
"Last year I let my OD subscription lapse" subsequently confirms the OP is no longer a customer.
"I see Impulse is, mercifully, going away after the corporate <scam> buyout that I found rather revolting anyway." is what I find both insulting AND ill-conceived. If ANYTHING guarantees the future prospects of Stardock's GUI software it IS THIS SALE.
Being a past anything entitles you to an entry in a history book, not an opportunity to demand [want] things differently.
It's curiously amusing that 'nothing has happened in 2 years' and yet we now have the "best windows program ever" [or some such quote] which is Fences.
WERE this in a Stardock Support forum asking for future prospects/whatever we ALL are required to respond courteously and provide assistance where due.
This instead is 'General Discussion" and 'generally' I for one am tired of the attitudes of several respondents here. <-- underlined for POLITE effect.
For the OP with his 'wants' [Beuller or otherwise], the sale of Impulse is causal AND effect of 'things are happening'.
I can be patient. It's a virtue, apparently.
....and a rare one, clearly.
Well, I guess I havent experienced SD telling me I was going to get something I didn't, that I remember anyway.... but If that had happened, Im pretty sure that entering the fray repeatedly saying I want this, I want that, It wouldn't get me far. This is true of most businesses I have had dealings with over the years.
I've always found you catch more flies with honey... and to me, again, Imo...for what SD charges for most of their stuff, it's a pretty good value for the dollar.
Perhaps the post to me, seemed a little on the.. 'I'm entitled'.. side.. when anyone not happy with a product, service, is free to stop paying for it.
Again, just my personal views, folks are are free to act however they want in public, this is just my advice... for what its worth.\
.. and I'm always going to want that bag of hundreds, although I know, no one is going to just hand it over.. so I don't demand.
I don't agree with Jafo on much, but I do here.
"Professional"? Wasn't aware Super Wizop is considered a "Profession".
And just what's wrong with what he wrote? That you don't like it? That's apparently the "standard" for for something, but just what?
A guy in Oz got an arts grant for $20,000. He used it to withdraw....$20,000 ... 2 packs [taped] of 100s.
He presented them to auction as 'art'.
They sold for $21 and a half thou.
Ah....taking a loss for your 'art' ....
I think the call that beating the system.... or.. selling out.
Either way, someone is going to complain.
I dont see a demand for anything. I see an informed oppinion and a request for answers. I see a long time member being attacked for speaking his mind. I see alot of assumption but no real answers to a valid question that has been shadowed in angry response.
Quoting and replying to your #32.
As for your #38?
Read Jafo's #33.
Going to see the debt now. you kids have fun.
Repeating.. I want.. over and over.. does come across, to me at least, and apparently others as demanding.... maybe I'm missing something.
No your not. Your trying to be clever and insulting.
To whom are you responding?
I'm really not, I'm giving u my (non-biased, as this has no bearing on me, no horse in this race) opinion on the OP.. that's all.
Don't take it the wrong way please... but to me, the entire post was demanding and entitled.
just calling it how i see it. Nothing more.
Yep.
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