Most guys probably wish their wife/GF had a nag 'turn off' button as that appears to be on by default...

I love these little notifications! I woke up today and saw that I could buy Space Rangers 2 for almost nothing.

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I don't understand why I have impulse, but no impulsenow? Can't find it anywhere on impulse or in program files.

I hate these 24-hour offers. No, not because the pop-ups annoy me or anything, the opposite in fact: it's far too easy to miss the pop-up the first time and then you have no way of knowing unless you actively remember to right-click on the tray icon and select "View Promotions...". Perhaps they could add an opt-in feature where it annoys you even *more* about the promos? a big click-through message when you start Impulse or such, maybe, keeping the current "small tray bubble" as the default of course.

I can't believe I missed Space Rangers 2 hopefully they'll have a "second round" for all promos on X-Mas, otherwise I'm gonna hate myself. Or build a time machine, dunno really.

Probably EST given thats the usual timeframe that SD works in.

"D:\Program Files\Stardock\Impulse\Now\ImpulseNow.exe" is not there. Maybe I uninstalled it.

I agree that it's pretty spammy.  But I personally am glad to see the deals.  In my opinion, each and every company that I've installed software from (and I mean by explicitly running its setup program, not bundleware) gets a free pass to throw up one advertisement, once, after that it's opt-in.  Here's a solution I suggest would make everyone happy:

Add a dialog box version, that doesn't go away until dismissed.  Numerous people have said that the current system flicks by too fast (if you were distracted you missed it) and want something that will still be there when they come back from coffee.  The deal is naturally a hyperlink to the purchase page, there's also a Close button and the usual 'X' in the corner.  Actually the current "list of promotions" accessible via right-click on the Impulse icon could probably be used for this.

Put a "don't show me advertisements like this again" checkbox on that dialog.  This step is ABSOLUTELY NOT OPTIONAL.

Put a link to the ImpulseNow settings on that dialog.

Add a larger customize ad delivery window which will be used for the first ad after installation.  This window will explain about the special offers, using the currently available offer as an example.  Instead of a 'Close' button, ask the user to select how they want to see ads in the future:

* Don't show ads

* Show ads in a window that waits until I click Close

* Show messages using a notification bubble that disappears after 10 seconds

Showing pictures of each option to help with the choice is a good thing.

If the user closes the window (e.g. using the 'X', or by killing it with Task Manager, or logging out) without making a selection, no more offers shall be presented for let's say 90 days, then the customize ad delivery choices would be presented again.  There'd be a button on the main settings window to revisit the customize ad delivery window(e.g. there's a dropdown list to select between None/In Window/As Balloon with an "explain..." button to the side).

Of course the user preference would be kept across Impulse updates.  Everyone who is currently opted out would be kept opted-out.  Everyone who currently has the default setting (show notifications) would see the customize ad delivery window and positively opt in or out as they desire.

This would be less annoying than pretty much any other piece of software you care to name that has online registration.  I think it's the right balance between opt-in/opt-out for a company I've already chosen to do business with.  The key is that the opt-out button must be on the very first unsolicited window shown.

Comments?  People want to call me an idiot for this idea?  People want to boycott the special offer system until Stardock adds this customize ad delivery window?

No, Steam allows you to see all sales through their website, under the Specials tab. It does show notification windows for some deals, but no deal is ever announced through there that doesn't also appear on the Specials so don't worry about keeping the client open. Besides, nearly all sales they've done last for at least two or three days so you don't even have to visit daily, the only exception was the special TF2 sale during Halloween which only lasted for 3 hours but I don't think they'll be repeating that model soon.

And bvoigt, while I understand your point, I think most people would find a small bubble far less intrusive than even a single click-through window, even with a "don't show me this again" option. Counter-intuitive? perhaps, but people are weird like that. Still, it's not a bad idea either, specially as it'd inform people of what exactly are those deals, and it'd solve my problem of missing them quite nicely as well

Well as a greedy gamer, the reason I like the 24 hour Impulses is that someone (i.e. someone not me) is helping subsidize these special deals that you just normally wouldn't get. 

Anyone remember when Buy.com first came out? If you weren't there, you missed out. It was a fabulous age of the .COM's and they were selling below cost. Good times.

The Impulse Now deals aren't quite like that but they're cases where people are "eating" it a little bit to give customers a better deal and I like better deals.

I hope I don't sound like a cheapskate here but I'll buy whatever gives me the best deal -- even if I'm buying it off Steam or somewhere else. I know I should be loyal to Impulse and all and truth be told, Impulse usually does have the better deal (i.e. Steam will do a 25% off right after Impulse does a 33% off) but if Steam does a better deal, I'll buy it there instead.

What I won't do, however, is buy from a website.  I'm done with that.  Between iTunes and Xbox 360 there's no way I'm going to a website to buy stuff that I'm downloading. But that's just me.

Verkinix, no deal has shown up for me either for the last 48 hours or so, but I suspect it is just because there is no sale available for my region. I certainly hope that there is no bug when the Christmas sale is on. And I also hope that there will be sales available for me, or else I will just have to go and buy stuff from Steam or D2D. Not something I want to do.

*Prays for full Sins sale, Demigod sale...*

Demigod is $7.50 today: https://www.stardock.com/media/mailers/Demi.htm