Four Add-ons Planned For Sins of a Solar Empire

With the first add-on pack for Sins of a Solar Empire arriving in just under a month, publisher Kalypso Media has announced that three more add-ons are on their way as well. Gamespot has an early look at the first add-on, Entrenchment, and a couple of additional screenshots are available at Shacknews. The game's creative director, Craig Frazer, also explained their reasoning for making small expansions rather than large ones: "If PC gaming is to survive, the industry will need to be open to change. We went out on a limb with our anti-DRM stance and it paid off really well. We tried an unusually long beta period and that worked as well. Micro-expansions are just another experiment we are trying out to improve the market. These small expansions give us the opportunity to provide highly focused, high quality content within a reasonable time frame. Micro-expansions also reduce the development risk associated with 1-3 year cycles. With lower risk, we can be far more progressive in terms of gameplay and content."

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Re:You can't knock Kalypso Media

[nschubach]

That's funny because I did the exact same thing and got this message:
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/5128/screenshotgalacticcivilex5.png

Yes, that's on my Wine box, but it also happened when I moved Gal Civ to my XP Tablet from my XP gaming box.

So, one of us is lying, one of us is lucky, or you have a different GalCiv than I do.