Comment on Factorio Friday Facts #418 - Space Age release date

arality@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There isn’t even any risk, considering the amount of detail they’ve covered in the dev blogs.

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• neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same. I have a general rule that I don’t pre-order. I also tend to wait for review to come in. This is because I’ve been burned in the past. I made exceptions to the latter rule for CP2077 and KSP2, and we all know how those went.

  So what used to be more like general guidelines for myself have now become strict rules.

  But Factorio has earned an exception. They’ve proven time and time again that the game is a product of passion and not (primarily, at least) profits. This has been clearly visible since I first bought it during early access in 2016 or thereabouts.

  So its expansion will be instabuy for me. The game has simply given me so many hours of entertainment that one could argue that if anything, at least I will now have paid full price for the game I already have (I don’t remember what I paid for Factorio, but it was dirt cheap).

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  • ace@lemmy.ananace.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s reasonably easy to guess exactly what you paid for the game, since the only change in price since launch was a $5 bump in January last year. It’s never been on sale.

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    • awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s never been on sale, but the price HAS gone up multiple times since it was first launched in alpha.

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      • ace@lemmy.ananace.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Completely blanked on early access pricing, so yes, if you bought it before release then it was likely cheaper still.

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    • neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      By “launch”, you mean its release date, right? I paid for early access years before that.

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      • ace@lemmy.ananace.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That is true, I didn’t even think of early access.

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    • Drigo@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I bought Factorio for 20$, and my friend bought it for 25$, And now it costs 35$.

      So there have been different prices over the years

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      • ace@lemmy.ananace.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I assume both the $20 and $25 prices were during alpha/early access. Was thinking entirely of release pricing.

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• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yup, the factorio devs have earned the trust required.

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• ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, they have proven that they don’t release garbage, in multiple separate ways. They are the among the best game devs ever

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