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Galactic Civilizations II cracks the top 10 in sales

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Galactic Civilizations II cracks the top 10 in sales

April results in

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6148856.html
from GalCiv2 Forums

In various posts Brad (Frogboy) has said that there was no way Galactic Civilizations II could make the overall top 10 in PC games sales.

The reason for that is that unlike games released by the big 5 publishers, Galactic Civilizations II would only be at major retail outlets (as opposed to every store that carries any sort of PC game). 

Another factor is that Galactic Civilizations II is available for direct purchase and download which aren't counted.  Nearly 30% of the game's overall "sell-thru" has come from sales through TotalGaming.net (one can imagine the ranking if those sales were added in).

But thanks to strong word of mouth, great reviews, and other factors, GalCiv II sold so well at the retail outlets that it is at that it was able to still make the top 10 for April.

Thank you so much for your support! 

 

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Reply #27 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yup, well done you lot! I admit I'd never even heard of you guys until recently and I was kinda skeptical about about buying this because well to be frank I thought a small company like this wouldn't be able to make that was as good as some of the ones made by huge companies don't hate me! I downloaded the demo because well a lot of good things have been said about it and having played that I bought the full game asap... I'm now behind on several pieces of work because of this game... Oh man I've been woffling going "me, me, me"...


Okay I'll summarize: Great Game! You definitely deserve ever success you're getting... The quality of this company is frequently surprising me (cos it's so good lol in case you were thinking I meant otherwise).. Okay I'll shush now
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Reply #29 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm glad to see that good games can compete with overmarketed and mindlesss AAA titles. Congratulations.
Reply #30 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
GOOD JOB!!! i accually first heard about this game on a civ 4 site, checked out this site and saw it just came out a week ago (this was early march), Civ 4 left me itching for a good single player TBS game. ( I mean who has the time to play a multiplayer TBS game, good lord, espessially playing against ppl i dont know) well anyway I bought this and its great. Keep up the great work
Reply #31 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Woot! Grats Stardock!!! I was so excited to see that this great game has made the top 10 list... and it definitely deserves it! I was hoping this day would come, and it looks like it has!
Reply #32 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Congratulations to the whole team at Stardock. What you guys have accomplished is truly awesome!
Reply #33 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I love how they point how that Stardock broke into the top ten "dispite" not having copy protection. Congrats though and I'll keep buying BECAUSE there is no copy protection.
Reply #34 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Grats

... Its saddening to see so many SIMS titles still on the chart though..

Reply #35 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
GOOD, i'm glad to see a game like this selling well. I'm tired of these flavor of the week EA clone games they non stop release that is killing pc gaming. I want to see more flight sims, more tactical strategy, more turn based games, and shit from "dead genres" like that. I want a new x-com to be done well, for example. I dont want to play Battlefield 12 or endless cloning MMORPG 25.

The one thing I want that I know wont be made? A new Mechwarrior game.... because Wizkidz killed battletech