Petrell: I kind of get Déjà-vu from all this. Didn't Stardock/Impule go thru quite similar period with all the "Gamers bill of rights", "DRM is bad!" and "we'll never sell our games on steam!". They were (or was it just their director or something) quite vocal about it back then. Then they began give all of them up one buy one basically to appeal bigger publsihers and earn more money. Then they made Elemental: War of Magic and their house cards collapsed and had to sell their digital distribution business to avoid bankruptcy (GOG had similar moment when CD Projekt's former cash cow, the retail business dried up and CD Projekt RED had it's disasterous venture into console market, both around the same time.).

Obviously there were differences. The director, or who ever that guy was, was quite erratic person iirc and seemed to have as many haters as he had loyal fans. Iirc he quite vocally attacked anyone who questioned him or Stardocks products (with his fans fanatically supporting him ofcourse). And impulse can hardly be compared to GOG considering it was primarily US digital distribution service (half of the games only available in US, half of sales only in US and prices favored US and screwed everyone else) and had DRM from day one (althought they tried to make less annoying DRM to appeal both customers and publishers).