Even if the retail release is not simultaneous (it rarely is since Europe requires a lot of localization, and that would generally mean delaying the English release in order to do a simultaneous launch), anyone can buy the download version direct regardless of location. In Sins's case, it has not been released at retail in Europe simply because none of the publishers there (we have to subcontract international publishing) agreed to take it, saying the German market would not support a game of that type. We certainly did try. With Demigod though, it should be no problem since it is a entirely different kind of game from a well-known studio.

Anyway, all it takes to get games from us online is a credit/debit card or paypal. No funny international prices either--you just pay in USD at whatever the going conversion rate from your currency is. For most people outside the US, it's quite a deal compared to local game prices due to the weak dollar.

There's simply no excuse to pirate the game. And if someone does, we honestly don't care if they think it's unfair that they can't play online, considering they're enjoying the fruit of our labor without paying us a single cent.

that's what you said about my 'happy ending'

oh wth, i preordered the game.
I will download it digitally because it seems Stardock release worldwide online. This should be pretty standard, but Stardock is actually the first publisher i see to do this. I tried to download Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance through D2D, but i had to wait one month until it was released in Europe officially. Pretty stupid.

Stardock is the only publisher that uses their brain?

and two answers from Stardock themselves in this thread... i'm pretty impressed!
sorry if my first post had a negative tone, i didn't know better when i wrote it.

That you would release in Europe? hehe

i disagree with the title of this post /thread

Nice.

So long as the beta doesn't get delayed for localizations, anyway. Mee... want... beta!

Actually, it was released in retail in a Russian Federation by a publiser №1 in Russia. Russian Federation is in Europe. Though there was almost a 2-month delay compared to an US release. Right now SoSE is in the 6th place in game sales charts in a "Souz" shops (they sell movies, music, games, some popular books and other related stuff).

Russia spans both Europe and Asia (mostly Asia) and is considered its own territory for sales purposes. We've had good results working with Snowball there so we'll probably continue to do so.

He's probably deformed: born without a funny bone.

I'd hope you could tolerate our spelling - its the right spelling, after all.

Hey guys! I have a question about europeans players playing on US servers.

 

As I really really wanna play this game, will we europeans be able to play on the US servers, and if we can, how "good" will it be? Like how will the latency be?