Stardock announces that
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is smashing all the company's previous sales records. They offer some details on this, including some praise for the impact of sales on
Steam, clearly putting the rivalry over once having owned the competing
Impulse service in the rearview:
- The company has sold more than 100,000 copies digitally to date of Rebellion
- The company’s internal projections factored in a large “cannibalization” percentage of its own direct sales through its web site and sales from its former digital distribution platform Impulse (now owned and operated by GameStop.)
- Sale stats showed that Steam sales did NOT cannibalize those sales
- Steam sales instead replaced what Stardock has usually seen via sell-in at retail
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The summary here is a bit confusing. To clarify:
1. Stardock anticipated the release of Sins on Steam to cannibalize their direct sales through the Stardock store and Impulse. They expected Steam sales to share the same digital "pie" that their own sales and Impulse shared.
2. Instead, Stardock found that their direct digital sales and Impulse sales were largely the same. This one's a bit ambiguous in their announcement.
3. Their Sins Steam sales eclipsed their retail sales.
4. (And most importantly!!) As a result, Stardock plans to bring Elemental and The Political Machine to Steam.
I've always wanted to try Elemental, not that Steam really factors into this decision. I'm more inclined to support Stardock directly by buying direct from them. That said, seeing more sales through Steam only means good things for Stardock and hopefully that translates to more resources into better games. Elemental's initial release was marred by issues. |
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Anyone else noticed in the steam sale |
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