Sins Of a Solar Empires Sold 500K Units
- Scribbled on September 5th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Industry News, PC, Strategy
Brad Wardell and Stardock Games have every reason to celebrate as their massive real-time-grand-strategy space game Sins of a Solar Empire has sold 500,000 copies.
The big sleeper hit for PC games in 2008 is without question Sins of a Solar Empire. The space strategy game from developer Ironclad Games and publisher Stardock spent a number of weeks early this year on the top 10 best seller lists. Today Gamasutra reports that the game has sold over 500,000 units; 400,000 of those sales came from retail stores and over 100,000 units were from digital download sales. The game itself cost less than a million dollars to create.
It might be important to note that the game has almost no copy protection - just a key for registration to get patches and the like. You don’t need a disc in the drive to play, and you don’t have to jump through hoops regarding protection. Just a note to the big publishers.
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