Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record

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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Darks wrote on Jul 26, 2012, 13:18:
I think many don’t have a system capable of sustaining the game in a longer game. Which is why they are having the issues they do.

is a very different argument than

Darks wrote on Jul 26, 2012, 13:18:
Again, I am going to say this. The lag you guys are all talking about was something that happened with the two prior games. Rebellion for me has not had any of those late game slowdowns or lag. The original Sins was horrible about the lag with games after about 3 hours into a game. Rebellion does not have that, its been fixed.

Again, your experience is not universal. People have issues on medium maps not just large or huge. It's an engine designed for 2006 hardware, if it takes an I7 to run smoothly then there is still something fundamentally wrong.
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