• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        22·
        9 days ago

        The developer is ideologically against sales, because they believe it’s disrespectful to people who have already bought the game. Factorio has never been on sale, and will (probably) never go on sale

        • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          I could have sworn it went on sale exactly once specifically to raise funds for something, but I can’t remember what. I assume for Ukraine, but I’m not seeing anything in their steamdb price change history, anything from their website, or any talk about a one time sale.

          • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            Steamdb https://steamdb.info/app/427520/ never recorded a lower price than 25 € (which is the initial price before raising it to 32 €) on Steam. Maybe such a special deal was organized outside of Steam, possibly Humble or GOG. Game is also available on Switch, but I doubt it would go on sale there. On https://gg.deals/game/factorio/ it lists “Official Stores low: 20,00€ Ended 7 years ago”. Weirdly the websites price history shows a lower Steam price at launch. Feb, 2016 initial price of 20 € on Humble, then shortly after on Steam. Then April 2018 on Steam first price increase to 25 €.

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      78·
      9 days ago

      I was about to say, Factorio is known for never being on sale, wow, what a day… A day… Huh. What day is it. Dangit.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    86·
    9 days ago

    Imagine if the dev actually did this. They’d probably make millions just from those that added it to their wishlist hoping it’ll go on sale someday and completely forgot about it. I know because I was one if those dudes but eventually caved after I found out it’ll never go on sale.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldEnglish
      271·
      9 days ago

      I have fifty steam accounts that own one copy of Factorio each and I’m just waiting to cash in.

      I thought I was ruined at first.

    • Carrot@lemmy.todayEnglish
      10·
      9 days ago

      I was as well. Put off buying it for years, as I am the patient gamer who waits for deals. I caved after playing Satisfactory and still having the itch to build factories

        • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          In my opinion you really don’t have to think to do quite a bit of stuff and enjoy yourself in Factorio. I think if you want to think about what you’re doing you can figure out ratios, making nice blueprints, building circuits, and all sorts but I have a few friends who had hundreds of hours of fun in the game never once considering anything like “what would I need to get a full blue belt of green science?”

          The anti-thinking approach would be “I need red science to get this tech, so I’ll set up machines for red science”, “my iron gears going into red science aren’t keeping up so I’ll build more iron gear assemblers”, “my copper going into red science isn’t keeping up so I’ll build more furnaces”, “I have more red science than my labs can use so I’ll build more labs”, etc.

          Personally, I don’t mind seeing the exact production numbers and doing a little math to figure out exact numbers of assemblers necessary, but it’s just as valid to build more X assemblers until the X belt is full, then when X’s ingredients start to run out you can repeat that process for its ingredients.

    • Rusty@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      9 days ago

      I had it in my wishlist for years. I wasn’t exactly waiting for a discount, I was just playing other games. I finally bought it a month ago and already spent more than 100 hours. The game is addictive.

    • eli@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      That’s me, still haven’t bought it. I got other games to play anyway so oh well!

  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    59·
    9 days ago

    Is this only in the EU? On my end in the US, it’s still full price.

    Edit: My dumbass forgot it was April Fool’s Day. Ignore this comment.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    593·
    9 days ago

    Developers or publisher seem to think its anti consumer practice to go on sale. So I knew something was off when I read post title.

    It isn’t about visibility or sales, its about respecting the players who have already purchased the game. We don’t want to reward the people who hold off on buying the game, the game is a price we find reasonable, and this is the deal. If you think it is priced too high, then it is your choice to not purchase, and we hope that with enough time, and extra development, we will be able to convince you of its value.

    Not having a sale ever is part of our philosophy. In short term, they are good and bring extra money, but we are targeting long term. I believe that searching for sales is wasted time, and people should decide on the price and value, but putting option of wasting time to search for deals or waiting seems like bad part of the equation. As an example I would like to mention Minecraft. I’m not aware of any sale of it :)

    https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=25334

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1929·
      9 days ago

      If you think it is priced too high, then it is your choice to not purchase, and we hope that with enough time, and extra development, we will be able to convince you of its value.

      No. It just convinces me to pirate.

      • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyzEnglish
        28·
        9 days ago

        As someone who actively sails the high seas, the devs and publisher of Factorio don’t really hit any of the marks for why I would pirate something in the first place.

      • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
        27·
        9 days ago

        That falls into the “not purchase” category. Regardless, their point still stands. If it’s not worth it for you at that price and you still want to play it, you might as well pirate it now because the price isn’t changing.

      • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        232·
        9 days ago

        See, this is a toxic attitude to promulgate. They are not charging an outrageous price. It’s not a subscription. It’s not an unfinished game. It’s not locked to the Epic Games store. It’s being actively maintained. It’s not being sold by a toxic publisher like EA. It’s an indie developer. Etc. etc.

        It’s just a simple product, with a simple price. And you insist you have the right to obtain a copy of it without paying because they don’t offer discounts. This just isn’t reasonable. You don’t have a right to a copy of this game. It’s entertainment. It’s a product that those who work on it derive their lively hood from. It’s not food. It’s not shelter. It’s not healthcare.

        • jumjummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          9 days ago

          Don’t worry, I’m sure this paragon of wisdom would come up with another excuse of why they would pirate the game even if it did have a discount.

          • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            9·
            9 days ago

            Yeah, “I’m cheap/broke” is a reason to pirate, but so many people shy away from admitting it. Simply because they feel the need to morally justify it in some other way. I guess because saying “I took this shit for free. I could pay for it but I don’t wanna” doesn’t feel good.

      • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
        12·
        9 days ago

        Honestly its one of those games where I recommend people pirate and if you like it or feel like you got a lot out of it and think they do deserve it, pay for it.

        • Scubus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8·
          9 days ago

          I recommend everyone pirate every game to try it, and if you feel that it is worth the asking price then pay that,or donate more. I was playing factorio for probably 7 years before i bought it because i couldnt afford the game.That being said I did buy it, because it is a game that I have installed on multiple computers over the years. If I have to redownload your game launcher, I typically just buy it now. Before companies start trying to take advantage of this, if I have to uninstall your launcher because of a bug or enshittification the chances of me ever playing your gake again go down dramatically, damn near zero unless you gather cultural relevance for a decade.

      • SillyDude@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        There are so many games that I don’t even feel the need to pirate. There are plenty of games on my wishlist that either currently are or will be on sale so I’d rather just buy one of those. And with piracy I already archived full collections for various older systems, there are probably hundreds of S tier games that I’ve never played that are just waiting for me. No more downloads, no more payments, no accounts. I could fuck off for years and just play emulated games.

      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        21·
        9 days ago

        One area where Factorio is tough to pirate is, they actually locked their mods behind a sort of DRM scheme where you have to confirm having it on Steam to download them. It’s a great game as just vanilla but I’m not sure how to get around that if you want to use mods.

        • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          Worth noting is that you can also get factorio DRM-free on the website, and then downloading mods is locked behind logging in with your account - same as playing multiplayer on online-mode servers. But mods are also just zip files that you can also download from the website (still need to log in and own the game), so same as games with steam workshop, people will share mods same as they share game files.

          If that’s too inconvenient for you to pirate, well, “piracy is a service issue” ;)

          • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            Yeah I have no idea where if anywhere people share pirated mods, definitely would like to know, haven’t seen them on torrent sites. Beat Saber has something like this also with a different system (where somehow third party mod managers have ended up implementing this sort of check), and steam workshop as you mention. Anyway I do own Factorio (though not the expansion), it’s mostly just something that seems like a relevant factor.