Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record

[Jul 25, 2012, 4:42 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

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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Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record

Jul 27, 2012, 19:40

NegaDeath

There's no need for a test. It's been tested thousands of times by other players, discussed on forums all around the internet and confirmed by the developer to be an engine issue to be fixed in the next generation. For the umpteenth time your experience is not universal, the fact that it runs "perfectly" for you is both great and a pointless statistic. Noone here has disputed your experience. You however continue to dispute us. My PC has no problem. It handles all modern games with no issues. "Needing more horsepower" is a pointless argument, because of the old nature of the engine the ONLY aspect that will help the game is a single fast CPU core. Know what the recommended (note: recommended, not required) CPU is for the game? A puny Core 2 Duo @ 2Ghz. Video card is irrelevant as it's a DX9 only CPU bottlenecked game. Ram is irrelevant as it's 32-bit only. If you feel the recommended CPU for this single core game should be an expensive Core I7 then maybe you should tell Ironclad. "I'm not being an ass about this" What do you call blaming us for the decline of PC gaming then? I noticed that post was deleted but it was so outrageous the comments stuck in my head. Or how about telling Prez he didn't know what game he was talking about when he only made a simple (and obvious) typo? I guess you just can't stop blaming us. I wash my hands of the conversation and regret that you turned a polite discussion of a great game into this. I will not respond to your comments any further, something I should have done much earlier.

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Jul 25, 16:53	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Keilun
	2.	Jul 25, 17:14	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	NegaDeath
	3.	Jul 25, 17:17	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Axis
	4.	Jul 25, 17:44	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Darks
	6.	Jul 25, 18:07	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	NegaDeath
	7.	Jul 25, 19:08	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Prez
	8.	Jul 25, 19:14	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Prez
	10.	Jul 25, 19:37	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	NegaDeath
	11.	Jul 25, 19:39	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Mashiki Amiketo
	22.	Jul 26, 10:18	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Jedi Master
	25.	Jul 26, 13:18	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Darks
	28.	Jul 26, 15:13	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	NegaDeath
	30.	Jul 26, 16:21	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Prez
	32.	Jul 26, 20:22	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Darks
	33.	Jul 26, 20:46	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	NegaDeath
	34.	Jul 26, 21:33	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Prez
	35.	Jul 26, 22:21	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Sepharo
	36.	Jul 26, 22:34	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Prez
	9.	Jul 25, 19:16	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Dev
	12.	Jul 25, 19:57	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Silicon Avatar
	13.	Jul 25, 20:14	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Beelzebud
	14.	Jul 25, 20:20	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Dev
	15.	Jul 25, 21:04	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Sepharo
	16.	Jul 25, 21:21	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Bet
	17.	Jul 26, 03:40	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	InBlack
	18.	Jul 26, 04:42	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Bhruic
	21.	Jul 26, 09:59	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Darks
	24.	Jul 26, 11:41	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	NegaDeath
	27.	Jul 26, 15:05	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Mashiki Amiketo
	29.	Jul 26, 15:53	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	NegaDeath
	37.	Jul 27, 00:38	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Bhruic
	38.	Jul 27, 01:11	removed	Darks
	39.	Jul 27, 01:44	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Bhruic
	40.	Jul 27, 02:06	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Prez
	42.	Jul 27, 07:28	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Dades
	41.	Jul 27, 02:10	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	NegaDeath
	43.	Jul 27, 17:05	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Darks
	44.	Jul 27, 19:04	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Prez
	46.	Jul 27, 19:56	removed	Darks
	47.	Jul 27, 20:20	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Prez
	48.	Jul 27, 21:12	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Darks
	49.	Jul 27, 22:17	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Dades
>>	45.	Jul 27, 19:40	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	NegaDeath
	5.	Jul 25, 17:53	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	Silicon Avatar
	19.	Jul 26, 06:16	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	theyarecomingforyou
	20.	Jul 26, 08:50	Re: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Sets Sales Record	SpectralMeat
	23.	Jul 26, 10:19	Anyone else noticed in the steam sale	eRe4s3r
	26.	Jul 26, 13:46	Re: Anyone else noticed in the steam sale	SpectralMeat
	31.	Jul 26, 17:37	Re: Anyone else noticed in the steam sale	eRe4s3r