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Slashdot Games Four Add-ons Planned For emSins of a Solar Empire/em
By News Bot - 10-23-2008 04:42 PM
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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."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/22/1951215amp;from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/10/22/1951215"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/22/1951215amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/2IGGhLRbFQRhiIUgfgVVcwsz2W4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/2IGGhLRbFQRhiIUgfgVVcwsz2W4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/OO_eMW1Dro4" height="1" width="1"/
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By News Bot - 10-23-2008 04:42 PM
Originally Posted at: Dead Parrot Tavern
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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."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/22/1951215amp;from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/10/22/1951215"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/22/1951215amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/2IGGhLRbFQRhiIUgfgVVcwsz2W4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/2IGGhLRbFQRhiIUgfgVVcwsz2W4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/OO_eMW1Dro4" height="1" width="1"/
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