OD purchased with 4 "Free" MyColors Themes - Have only received just one in a Year

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I purchased OD ultimate Aug 14, 2009 - it was advertised as getting 4 FREE Mycolors Themes anually...

I have only received (1) free theme and my OD subscription is set to expire in 3 days...

I received the free Music Theme back in October and nothing since...

So what is the deal?? How do we get our Free Themes?? And when will the other 3 free themes be available??

Also my Quest Theme does not show up in Impulse - it is available using the MyColors Program - but can not archive the theme through Impulse as it is not there - the registration number is in there - but not listed as installed or available in Impulse..

How do I get this to show up through Impulse??

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

They should be showing up in Impulse. You should probably contact Stardock Support.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

As my colors was pulled from OD10 because of no windows 7 compatibility, and because it would be too much time to update all the skins there have been no more since that music skin. As stardock have been spending all their resources on the games/impulse front the content in OD has been put to the back of the pile except for a few programs such as wb or deskscapes

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'd suggest sending a ticket to Sales from this page

https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=submit

Politely explain the situation to them.  Maybe they could set you up with some of the previously released bonus themes or something.  I don't know exactly, but surely some reasonable arrangement could be made.

(I really kind of miss those bonus themes.  Used to brighten my day a little bit.)

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

There is no OD Ultimate (It's Plus), and the version number is around 2 now. There is a Winstep Ultimate and it is at 10.6 now.......

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You are correct we were supposed to receive bonus Themes with an Object Desktop Ultimate subscription but it would seem that Stardock does not fulfill its obligations once it gets your money. A few previously released Themes would be be a great idea but I do not think we should hold our breaths expecting replies from Stardock.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

In this instance it would seem that the reference to OD Ultimate, the OD stands for ObjectDesktop and not ObjectDock

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Object Desktop Ultimate was discontinued.  In return, users were given an additional year subscription, so yours does not expire for another year.

 

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Island, reply 8
Object Desktop Ultimate was discontinued.  In return, users were given an additional year subscription, so yours does not expire for another year.

 

This is true.  Although I still miss the extra Themes.  Also, since upgrading to Win 7 I really miss not being able to use: Bootskin, anymore.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It would still be nice if what we did receive was updated to work on Win7/64 bit but I'm not going to hold my breath. Some just don't look right and most clocks don't work at all. Decrypted versions never did appear so the skinners coulds make additional skins for docks, DX, etc. either. As it is, MyColors is dead weight in ODNT, much like the other "Theme Mangler"

Seriously, when was the last time any of you ODNT subscribers even opened MyColors?

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Have to admit I don't use the "skin everything with a click" approach at all but I do apply the MyColors WB's regularly and some of the bits and pieces from time to time.  There's some nice stuff in them thar' themes. :sun:

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

lol not since last year before i got windows 7. It is a shame that the money i spent buying a MyColors skin before win 7 to get the icon pack to go with a wb that was publicly available, has since not been used to develop the software. I have been spending some of my spare time making new icons from that icon pack to cover the windows 7 ones taht were not created in teh first place. I would also have a go at adding to the WB to get the most from it, however i am a complete novice when it comes to skinning wb :(

Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Island, reply 8
Object Desktop Ultimate was discontinued.  In return, users were given an additional year subscription, so yours does not expire for another year.

 

Since it was discontinued - my subscription should of been refunded... As it was discontinued after my purchase... Thus leaving all of us with a paid suscription holding the bag.. Not everybody choose to upgrade to windows 7 - so the choice was not one I made or agreed to prior to plunking down my money for your software..

C/P of an email I received - only after my subscription has expired..

Hello,

These themes are now bundled with the ThemeManager application. MyColors themes will no longer be included with Object Desktop subscriptions.

The Quest theme is only available through MyColors, not Impulse.

Please let me know whether this resolves your problem or if you have any additional questions.


Curt Hendzell
Consumer QA Manager
Stardock Corporation

Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Island, reply 8
Object Desktop Ultimate was discontinued.  In return, users were given an additional year subscription, so yours does not expire for another year.

 

 

Although I did just notice the extra year... Thanks

But not really what I wanted anyway - so thanks for nothing...

As I did request a refund within 2 days of my OD purchase - but that was at a cost of 75% of the purchase price... Or basicly a 25% refund...

Would of preferred the 4 free themes, so I could have been done with Stardock and the way they conduct business...

I will accept a free coupon for the 3 other themes I was supposed to get with my OD purchase - and you can keep my "free 1 Year" OD subscription