If the only obvious innovation in Ashes is that it can handle thousands of units easily that’s just not sufficient in a full priced PC game now when a player can choose from all the RTS’s of all time.
In 2016, Ashes is competing against every RTS that has ever been released. In 2008, Sins was only competing against the other 37 SCUs on retail shelves at Walmart. While Ashes shipped with a lot more content than Sins of a Solar Empire did back in 2008, the market has vastly changed since then. The problem with that approach is that it results in a game that doesn’t feel featured enough to justify a $39.99 price tag in 2016. Strategic Zoom in Escalation (full zoom out). We wanted Ashes to be a more approachable game than Supreme Commander was and felt that features such as Strategic Zoom and complex economic interactions would be a turn-off the wider RTS community. I was part of the Total Annihilation camp and Ashes of the Singularity 1.0 reflects this. There’s no strategic zoom, there are no upgradeable defenses and it has limited progression as part of its strategy. As good as Total Annihilation is, it is a lot simpler than Supreme Commander. Now, you might think these camps would be the same but they’re not. To oversimplify things, there were two camps: The Total Annihilation camp and the Supreme Commander camp. For those of you who weren’t part of the early access program, we had very heated debates regarding the direction the game should go. Much of this came from how the game developed during the beta period. There are a lot of reasons we decided to separate the base game from Escalation. It’s a stand-alone expansion which means that if you don’t already have Ashes of the Singularity, you can just buy Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation and get everything that’s in the base game too. On November 3, Ashes of the Singularity gets its first expansion pack: Escalation.
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