• Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months 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.

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        2 months 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
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          2 months 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.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months 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.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They have a demo available for free, which was enough to let me know I’m too dumb for the game.

        • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months 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.

    • Carrot@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 months 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

    • eli@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

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

    • Rusty@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months 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.

  • Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You got me, I thought this was going to be drama because the Factorio devs said the price will only increase with time.

  • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Are there any skins or graphics changes for factorio? I love the game but the graphics colors hurt my eyes and cause strain. Any mods for making it looks different?