Factorio Friday Facts #418 - Space Age release date

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ace@lemmy.ananace.dev⁩ to ⁨gaming@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-418

21st of October, let’s go!

Available on Steam for wishlisting now as well.
Not sure I agree with having the expansion on the same cost as the base game, but it is a tremendous amount of changes and improvements, both in the free patch as well as the additional paid content. So I’m definitely going to buy it.

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arality@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Awesome! I don’t buy many games on day 1, but Factorio is the exception.

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- awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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- BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yup, the factorio devs have earned the trust required.
  
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- ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It releases on my birthday !

I don’t think I have a choice then, I’ll have to get it on day one.

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- ace@lemmy.ananace.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It releases while I’m on the way back home from a trip to Manchester, might have to bring my Deck so I can play on the flight/train.
  
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