Cool. But please post the correct prices for the games those are the US prices but EU prices are different (and not only exchanged). Trine EU price is at least 10$ higher. I saw the price here and thought "cool" than went on the game page and thought "eww... same as Steam". Now Trine, in weekend deal, has almost the same price it should have normally (it's still higher however). I know (or hope) that it's not your fault but please remember that you have european customers too that pay even 30-40% more for the same game.

This is probably a dumb question, but does adding it to your cart and 'buying' it (since it says it doesn't charge you until release) count as 'pre-ordering'?  I pre-ordered Elemental in this way, but there is nothing to indicate I actually have a 'pre-order' (no preorder icon on Impulse, no key, no email, etc).  For all I know I'll just get charged on release day and recieve no pre-order benefits.

EDIT - It'd be pretty funny if people didn't get Majesty Gold until Majesty 2 came out; they don't get to play the original game until the sequel is out and they don't want to.

A short and sweet props for picking up Majesty 2!  I know a few of us made a mention of being hopeful that it would happen, and so it did.  I'll be sure to buy it through impulse.  Any info on that majesty gold bonus?  I don't mind being charged right away if I'm getting a special bonus.

That's a good point MIK - it would be nice if you could set a default currency on your impulse settings, and then they could use PHP to display the right amount.  Not so much here, but on the impulse store sale pages at least.

Wooo!  Trine's on sale! 

Strangely enough, I actually got Trine for the USD price, even though lately I've been starting to see a lot of the dreaded Euro pricing on Impulse as well. Perhaps they recently discovered Norway is not a EU member and changed it for us?

Not that I really care about the currency, but I do care about the 1:1 USD-EUR conversion ratio that has become the trend among game publishers.

As for taking it up with the publisher, I don't see why we shouldn't let Stardock know. I'm guessing they have a lot better communication lines to the publishers, and if Stardock says "this is costing a lot of sales you know", that might have more sway than the few mails from people taking the trouble to dig up the publisher's contact information. Where it would likely just end up ignored by first line support anyways.

Of course Stardock and Publishers can choose their pricing scheme. But what I don't like keeping this information from customers. Trine is announced to me for being on sale for $22.49 on the frontpage, as a new item, and through the mailing list. But when I try to add it to my cart it will show up as $32.27 . That's plain and simple false advertisement.

I was considering buying Trine at the price of $22.49, as that was an acceptable price for a small game like this.

It saddens me that Impulse is also going down the road of Steam with their pricing schemes.