More StarCraft II Sales Figures [Aug 02, 2010, 10:47 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
With StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty sitting atop the UK multi-format sales charts, the first PC-only title to top that list so far this year, MCV points out that Blizzard's real-time strategy sequel has sold more copies in the UK in five days that the original StarCraft has sold over its 12-year lifespan. This is all the more impressive when knowing this is purely based on physical copies, and does not account for digital distribution.
StingingVelvet wrote on Aug 3, 2010, 12:32:
Well I hope Steam is not in control of the indie scene already... and I hope it never will be. It depresses me when I see people who "only buy games on Steam" and act like that is perfectly rational.
Me too, monopoly on the Indie scene would be some kind of paradox and would kill it. There are some indies who will use Steam, like Natural Selection 2, but many others won't.
Come to think of it, the greatest threat to the indie scene is Steam or a platform that monopolizes the market. Indiedb.com, a site devoted solely to indie projects will have a shop open soon though, and I'm willing to bet that most Indies will start using that as a way to sell their games so hopefully more stores like that open up in the future to allow the indie scene to grow in a healthy manner.
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