>it never goes on sale due to the no sales policy
>it increases price by 15%, twice
>this is celebrated by the community as some sort of gatekeeping
Why are gamers so eager to defend corporations and their scummy practices?
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It's always been free for me.
it's just that easy
cant you even download an offline version right from their website? sure, you need to have a steam account linked afaik but if your friend already has a copy he can get you a free, drm free, free as in freedom free copy of factorio as often as you want to. you have to be a smooth brained to be filtered by the price tag
>pirate game
>liked it enough to give an extra 10 bucks on top of the 30 bucks price
I believe in paying developers (developers, not publishers!) value for their work. Factorio was worth 40 bucks to me, they get 40 bucks to me. A 20 year old game ported to PC is worth 2 dollars to me, and I refuse to pay a cent more
>40 bucks
you are a fricking cheapskate. think of the inflation. the game is worth at least 70 bucks now. if you dont give those 30 bucks of difference to the devs you are full of shit and should have the game taken away from you.
ever tried to put a dollar value to the hours wasted?
In that case they owe ME money
Imagine paying for the privilege of wasting your time
Depending on your region it actually increased in price three or four times. Truly israeli devs.
Inb4 bump limit
>Factorio thread reaching the bump limit
if only
Pirate it you fricking cheapskate. This game still costs far less than AAA games even now and I put more hours into the game than the average AAA game.
just pirate it
i got it on sale though. back before it was on steam
I'm glad you can't afford it. To this day still one of the games with the best community. Can't wait for you third worlders to cry about the expansion in a year while I play after buying it for myself and the few underages I know (the only people I know who can't afford Factorio without my help).
we've been playing the pirated version for years, paypiggy cuck
thanks for funding the expansion btw, we will get that for free as well
>haha you cuck we're enjoying the game you want people to enjoy to the point you buy it for others
Words can't express how moronic you are to think this is some kind of gotcha.
The USA is third world. Like, officially. By every metric.
aww whats the matter piggy, seething i get your toys for free?
>third worlder can't read
Not surprised.
Hope you have fun leeching off me when the expansion comes out, kid.
>trannie in the headlights moment
<OOOH LET'S DERAIL THE DISCUSSION ABOUT ME BEING SMUG ASS PIRATE
>but me too bro no problem
<lmao seethe
the trannie brain in a nut shell, what could you expect from someone who believes he can be a woman with a boipussi
>paypiggy
>20-30$ indie game
If you're not some basedjak spamming Black person shartytroon. This is beyond terrible bait, and if its not bait. God damn you turd worlders are beyond savages. Imagine seething and getting jelly over someone support a dev for the game they created. Wow op you're so based for being a Black person I'm so jelly I wish I lived in trash and around animals in human bodies clean drinking water and roads are over rated you're totally right. Sirs we will be a super power by 2025 top caste hindoodoo pride "your" streets/water supplies are our desinated shitting streets.
>Like, officially.
>every metric
You've never been to a poor country in your life.
I visited California and New York quite a few times actually
>Officially
The official designations were given by Mao Zedong
>third worlders
lol, also, isnt it the usa where they frick your ass if you get caught pirating without a VPN and the land of datacaps, lmao.
>Paying full price for a game that looks like it came out in 1998
Do paypig goysloppers really?
First of all it's not full price, secondly, games were better in 1998, you graphics obsessed homosexual
>
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Words can't express how moronic you are to think this is some kind of gotcha.
[...]
The USA is third world. Like, officially. By every metric.
>
Not surprised.
Hope you have fun leeching off me when the expansion comes out, kid.
>
<OOOH LET'S DERAIL THE DISCUSSION ABOUT ME BEING SMUG ASS PIRATE
>but me too bro no problem
<lmao seethe
the trannie brain in a nut shell, what could you expect from someone who believes he can be a woman with a boipussi
>
>
full price for a game that looks like it came out in 1998
>Do paypig goysloppers really?
>$20
>full price
holy moron
You either have autism, or you don't. There's no such thing as "discount autism"
oh there certainly is
>250 hours and never got past fluids
some day, but not today
because its a near perfect game and the developers hate trannies
>man who needs corrective lenses is ready for the fall of civilization
alright
Is Nullius as moronic as people say?
I like it more than SE. It doesn't gimp you in any way, the recipes are just really complex. It's peak factorio in my opinion, except the no biters thing.
Nah it just has a lot of byproduct recipes. Nothing truly unfair, worst is dealing with chlorine which can't be voided.
are you fricking moronic? What corporations????? Corporations are exactly the ones financing threads like your you stupid dimwit, let's take a look at latest controversies and don't tell me it doesn't fricking reek of scuminess and israeliness bad faith actors as if it wasn't fricking another 15 years ago rape from hollywood
https://steamcommunity.com/app/427520/discussions/0/3777993814848984491/
hating on factorio is the ultimate npc move
>
In a tweet thread, Kovarex criticized the concept of gender quotas, stating that "I would rather the industry naturally go towards more women being interested in it, and that would naturally lead to more women working in the industry." He also expressed skepticism about the idea of diversity, stating that "If you pick people based on their race and sex, you are still a racist and sexist."
Ganker literally RENT FREE in trannies hedas lmfao, will you ever get tired of this "culture-war"? Do you realise it only radicalizes US more?
>Ganker is rent free in trannies heads
meds
>corporations
It's literally a group of based autists who liked industrial minecraft mods, so they made a full game out of it. If you don't think the price is fair, go pirate it. I think they're just being realistic about inflation and believe that it would be unfair to full price customers to go on sale.
Again, they're autists. This doesn't maximize their revenue. They do it out of autism, which I can respect.
>UMM UMM THEY ARE BEING REALISTIC??? WHAT ARE YOU, POOR??? LMFAOOOO
Factotrannies are really unhinged.
Fricking cultists, I swear.
>groceries cost 50% more
>this is fine
>entertainment product that can be had for free raises price by 15%
>OMG THIS IS ANUDDA HALL OF COST HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO ME DON'T THEY KNOW MY GRANDMA DIED TO AN ARTILLERY TRAIN WHEN SHE WAS JUST 5 YOU NEED TO PUT THE GAME ON SALE *NOW*
1 wubebux has been added to your account
Maybe you should earn some wubebux so you can finally afford to buy the game
>Again, they're autists. This doesn't maximize their revenue. They do it out of autism, which I can respect.
truly a niche, misunderstood title for Extremely Idiosyncratic Autists
Yes, normies will buy games they don't even play just to feel like they're part of the current FOTM
I feel 18% is an extremely high percentage all things considered.
>Implying steam achievements are an indicator for anything
Also mods disable steam achievements.
>one in five people will play long enough to beat the game
>in a ~40 hour autism simulator
that's far higher than I'd expect
first playthrough can be take anything between 60 to 100h.
Meanwhile speedruners can beat it in 1h30
Also there is shitton of people who played for hundreds of hours yet didn't send rocket for some reason
I was at 200 hours before I decided to launch a rocket
Don't achievements get disabled if you add even minor QoL mods?
They get disabled even if you change any of the freeplay options by 1%.
That's not true.
>A separate instance of achievements will be used when mods are installed and earned achievements will not register with Steam. In multiplayer, achievements can only be earned if the player has spent more than 50% of the time online.
Freeplay options are not mods.
He was talking about the freeplay options, which only disables SOME of the achievements when changing certain options.
>Within the freeplay game, enabling peaceful mode or setting enemy bases to anything lower than default disables the following achievements: There is no spoon, No time for chit-chat, Raining bullets and Steam all the way. Any other changes to map generation or using the debug modes does not disable achievements.
I had a mod the made the starting ore spawn apart. Thats the only mod I had.
mods dont block achievments
obviously it does or did
they dont, you ran a console command of some sort, either to reset evolution or pollution or maybe simply to reset chunks on the map, but mods dont disable achievments, deither does peaceful mode (for most) and disabling pollution
what do you gain from lying on an anonymous image board?
and don't bother arguing the semantics, if they don't register it's no different than being disabled
https://wiki.factorio.com/Achievements
>A separate instance of achievements will be used when mods are installed and earned achievements will not register with Steam
Oh I *am* moronic.
Sorry I dont use steam but have all the achievements. My apologies.
mods block official achievements connected to steam. Of course you still can get inside game but they will not be accepted.
Yea I was proven moronic later in the thread.
Wasnt aware steam and in game achievments were split
gatekeeping poorgays is ALWAYS a good thing
i love how piracy is absolutely widespread on this board, but the moment you mention factorio people go rabid if you don't buy the game.
Deep discounts ruined gaming. Companies cannot afford to sell their games at rock bottom prices, but gamers now expect them to be sold for 50% or even 75% off at the snap of a finger. So they had to introduce microtransactions, DLCs, and other "techniques" to ensure they get their money. It also leads to games being perceived as disposable. You are less inclined to beat or even play the games you purchase, because hey there are 10,000 other games and I only bought these ones for $5!.
Maybe companies should stop selling game keys in fricking bulk then lmaooooo
wrong, games were just forgotten in the past, steam gave devs more revenue in the form of long tail sales and they’re still greedier than ever
That's a cope. Sales cheapen a product both literally and figuratively.
it’s similar to how on steaming a film can make up for a bad box office, the game is probably going to be forgotten in a few months anyway whether you think it’s worth the full price or not
>Companies cannot afford to sell their games at rock bottom prices,
Then lower your overhead, you moronic gay. Lower fidelity assets, no more fricking mo cap, no more expensive IP licenses.
Incredibly based take on games being precieved as disposable because of the sales.
you sound like a marketing khazar
you’ll still buy space age
Correct.
i will, and i will post a magnet link on Ganker and /egg/
where's the scummy practice? hiking prices is a business choice, if you don't like the new price you simply don't buy it
gatekeeping is a good thing
the devs themselves don't even mind pirating because that doesn't hurt them unlike key reselling sites
proof: my ass
take a quick googleydoo at "factorio g2a" and come back to report what you found.
>some blogpost that was essentially just marketing
if the devs didn't care about pirates they would make the mods downloadable from their site even without a license.
they don't care about pirates but they aren't giving away free bandwidth to them either
they actually are, external mod downloaders are a thing.
sorry piggy, you lost regardless.
Are you well?
Care to plainly state your assertion again?
I'll start:
Factorio doesn't give a shit about pirated copies.
>THEY DONT CARE NOOOOOOO THATS WHY THEY INCREASED THE PRICE BECAUSE MUH "INFLATION" THEY DON'T CARE NONONONONOOOOOOOOOOOOO WUBESISTERS OUR RESPONSE?????????
>WUBESISTERS OUR RESPONSE
You're mentally ill, have a nice day.
Good enough of a response for ya, filthy homosexual?
>You're mentally ill, kill yo-AAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKKK!!!!
Stop blogposting, troony.
>some blogpost that was essentially just marketing
they called out G2A on turning a blind eye to stolen keys, caused a kerfuffle, were the ONLY ones to abide by G2A's silly terms for compensation, and got paid for resold stolen keys sold via G2A.
Not just a 'blogpost'
learn how to read beyond the first search result
uh oh paypiggy melty!
Don't care, I bought it when it was $20.
the idea is that the game will never be on sale so that if you want to play the game you can buy it at any time and not feel bad when the game goes on sale a day after you bought it.
and there's no dumb lizard brain shit telling yourself to wait for a sale on a game you want to play.
steam fire sales have ruined people's brains.
factorio fun
factorio moddable
factorio easily pirated
bitches mad for no fricking reason
Game is worth it. Not sure why people shit on the price when it's a full game thats completely worth it. And triple A releases have DLC slop, MTX, and unfinished trash and people clap like moronic seals for.
PLEASE STOP REPLYING TO OBVIOUS BAIT
I CAN ONLY TAKE SO MUCH
more like gay-torio
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>adds blizzard loot quality
can’t wait to farm an epic car!
legendary used nuclear fuel cell
What did you expect? Only neckbeards and autisticgays play those kind of games, gatekeeping is just them pretending to be important.
>corporations
it's an indie studio with 1 game you fricking cretin
so what's the current price
>have a third world steam account
>games constantly on 50%+ sales
PIRATE THE FRICKING OFFLINE GAME U DORK
>200+ hour game isn't worth 30 bucks
buy it you Black person
>can get 200+ hours of fun for free
how many eastern european pesos is a dollar? 1000? I'm sure the dev is doing fine for himself with whatever sales he made so far
I was honestly surprised how rare it is for people to make a system that doses nuclear fuel so reactors only run when turbines are almost out of steam.
N
>Come back to gaem after four years
>Have to relearn hotkeys
>install a gorillion mods, not even conversion mods but just a bunch of QoL shit
>have to learn a gorillion mod hotkeys
uuuuuuuuuuu
>have enough self respect to not put your magnum opus on sale
Utterly based. Art doesn't go on sale. There is no negotiating for perfection. Deal with it.
I can't place exactly which group is crying about the price increase.
If you've already bought it, then what's the problem? It doesn't affect you
If you're a pirate, again, it doesn't affect you because you're not buying the game
So I wonder, who's behind these (defamation) posts?
I think it's one sperg who loves buying up old games at 90% off to increase his steam game count to infinity, and I'm guessing he's been mad about the factorio price since forever because it will never be on sale.
I just can't imagine any other reason. Everything else doesn't make sense. I have never seen anybody being mad about minecraft costing 30 bucks, because everyone either already owns an account or pirates it.
So yes, I do believe it's one dude samegayging since the price increase happened.
>I have never seen anybody being mad about minecraft costing 30 bucks
Or maybe it's because Minecraft has been being actively developed at $30 for over a decade and has never gone up in price since full release. Factorio on the other hand has only gotten very minor bug fixes for the half a decade since release yet randomly went up in price because "inflation", or more likely they just wanted more israelite gold from wannabe "engineer" types who somehow haven't bought the game yet.
When you're somehow more greedy than Microshit then there's something really wrong.
shoulda bought it in early access when it was $20-$25
>not buying the alpha for 10 bucks directly from notch
good times, my account still works to this day
I did. I got it around the time aliens dropped those purple science orbs, whenever that was. It doesn't effect me with this game that the price went up but what if other devs start who halfass their games start doing this shit? Even if they don't it's still greedy as frick for these guys to raise the price while doing frickall to justify it.
>what if other devs start who halfass their games start doing this shit?
then they'll stop selling
>Cummy practices
Wube is one of the only based devs left. Check their teams page. All white people and all past employees are white. Shame they're acting like israelites though.
It's hundreds of hours of entertainment and one of the best games of the last 10 years with extremely respectable devs, just pay for it you fricking Black person. You shell out double the money for your average AAA 30 hour long slop on the weekly I bet.
company doesn't put sales for their games:
>JEWS, israeliteS, GREEDY BASTARDS, FIENDS OF MAMMON, OUTRAGEOUS SCROOGES
wube doesn't put sales for factorio:
>BASED, CHADS, WELL MADE, GATEKEEPERS, REDPILLED AND SUPREME KINGS
It starts by making a game people actually want to play
You've nearly managed to deduce that people are disagreeing.
You like pretending to be an engineer and wank yourself in front of others. Tell us how your efficient factory, build according to specs, can benefit humans with its readability. But you didn't comment your factory so how is anyone to make immediate sense of your wankery, lazy. Looks like your product might be trouble for its users and should have been better engineered by an engineer in making useful systems for which specifications and design can mean life or death.
Now if you'll excuse me i'll be off to play the videogame factorio in the least intelligent way possible where none of this matters.
I don't know if doing the tutorial is helping or hindering me. would I learn more just progressing naturally from scratch or should I finish up now that I'm at the researching level of the tutorial
tutorial is boring, just play and read a wiki if needed
>60$ game, 50% off
vs
>30$ game, no discount
If the game never goes on sale, then people don't have to waste their time waiting for a sale and getting anxious "but what if in the future there will be an even better discount". It's as if the game is on sale all the time.
This argument made sense 5 years ago, when it still was at 20 dollars.
Now that they have increased the price by 15 dollars, you are a israelite apologist and you deserve to be ripped off in the future.
>60$ game, 50% off
vs
>30$ game, no discount
this isn't a big game made by a huge studio with hundreds of devs, it's indie shovelware
there are way better indies with lower prices and you're just showing how dishonest you are by comparing it to AAA games
Then go play those better games. I'm sure unity asset flip #2883 is going to be a hit.
Then go play those instead homosexual
>cucks are defending a israeli game for being greedy
nothing new here, anyone who would get into this autism repetition game is mentally ill
brazilian thread
>increases price by 15%
Price increased by 500% actually.
>Price increased by 500% actually.
Reminder that the no sales policy has not hurt them whatsoever.
>Why are gamers so eager to defend corporations and their scummy practices?
>corporations
>mfw a small indie studio is now a large corporation
Wow, not sure when that happened but good for them. They must've been really able to develop their studio into a massive corporation with all of that Factorio money.
Stupid homosexual OP.
>Muh small indie studio
>Only have tens of millions of $
literal snooze simulator
so spergs really have fun playing this shit?
Get your bots away from the thread homosexual. You think oh well since there is a factorio thread up then anybody who wants to post about factorio may post about it here but anyone wanting to post about factorio will not post here because the threads sucks, who the frick wants to post in here at all. The plan fails. It's doing the opposite. If anon doesn't want to talk about factorio then so be it fricker, so be it. It's life.
This makes gay pirates who use the
>I will buy it later (when it's 90% off).
excuse, sethe.
It's not an excuse, it's an ultimatum.
Yeah dude, the few pirates that would inevitably buy the game are not going anymore because you're a israelite israelite Black person.
get filtered poorgay
When you eat as an activity then it's over.
I've been playing Factorio for years at this point through pirated copies and Steam family sharing, and to be honest I think I might just go buy it now. Thinking about it, there's really no excuse to not buy a game that I played for like fricking 30 hours straight even if it was with friends. Although I am a huge lazy brainlet, so I doubt I'll ever get into anything interesting in the game.
Free flow of information. A new world another try. Forever like back then so hang me up.
This webm is free for everyone, made with a bit of my time using software coded by someone else for free. The rest: is stolen and freed from someone who would not share.
Did you know that neurons are described as "hungry agents looking for work" ? Hell of a fight we got ourselves into. It's only natural to lose it.
Why are people crying about the price increase still? They needed more funds because they want to work on creating something larger. He hired more full&part time devs. The games been out forever did you all forget steam takes 30% then the government takes 40-50% leaving him with 30-40%. Game devs make 75k+ min if not shit at what they do. It costs money ie time in order to make money. Would you rather he takes out loans or god forbid gets investors. And frick me who cares if its never on sale its not AAA goytrash you're supporting an indie devs and his project. Its not like this is yandredev collecting money and doing nothing or minecraft getting millions of dollars releasing the baremin.
>They needed more funds because they want to work on creating something larger.
>literally a poormans version of the biggest community mod ever made
lol
lmao even
Every other dev manages to do it without raising the price and while having sales. What's the difference here? According to
they're still getting consistent sales. If they can't pay the bills with half a million in sales every year then they failed as a business and someone (aka kovarex) is making off like a bandit.
I dont think people realize how much taxes and other Ganker shit costs. For real steam and taxes is a massive amount lost those 40-50% from taxes is insane. Imagine only able to keep 20% of your totally profits to create your game.
Its the only ammo trannies have after getting butthurt during that one accident.
I just pirated it
dev can get fricked
Frick off Vanpreet.
>I went to Ganker they said to me the price is too high, there are no sales
>I said to them
>THE PRICE JUST GOT FIVE DOLLARS HIGHER
Can you not do co-op with a pirated copy?
The server host has to turn off account validation.
troony game
This is a bit hard to argue against. Autism gets thrown around factorio but anyone must know this not the cool kind of autism, it's the crippling kind.
Watch factorio stuff on youtube and it's speech impediment galor, inexplicable accents and obvious difficulties to concisely get a message across.
Then the transexuals and the furries. Not everyone god damnit.
>speech impediment galor
post an example
Let me point my fat fingers around then.
He doesn't realize the dread his speech pattern instills in me.
The frick is he, chinese?
Probably for the best.
fgsfgds
Autistics build in packs!
ACH NICE
I know we've got a resident youtuber right here and my finger points straight up into your ass. Enjoy the recs.
Those don't sound that bad, anon.
Are you projecting?
Who?
>Let me point my fat fingers around then.
He doesn't realize the dread his speech pattern instills in me.
Danish
The frick is he, chinese?
Polish
Probably for the best.
Shitty speech synthesis
fgsfgds
Swedish
Autistics build in packs!
Dunno, but he kinda sounds like the other guys, so Nordic/Eastern European,
ACH NICE
Dutch
So they're all Germanic/Nordic/Eastern European. I'm thinking you're the one who's autistic here.
Thought trupen was slovak
>The frick is he, chinese?
Clearly Eastern European. Are English-only plebs accent deaf?
>I know we've got a resident youtuber right here and my finger points straight up into your ass
Get your finger out of my ass
new video when????
do more circuit stuff pls
I dunno like two weeks or something.
If I feel like it. It doesn't really bring in the views, but that's never stopped me.
He prolly means the corean guy.
frick, so he is chinese?
tsbad. They must learn to use their voices.
>tsbad
Nothing shows up.
Are you taking the piss?
Owner of a pair of musical hears i do not simply enjoy any sort of sounds like some apparently do.
>playing israelitetorio when pic related exists
lol, lmao... lmfao even
satisfactory is dogshit, jace.
Reddit: the game
Still very barebones content wise
I like it but it has a long way to go
Doesn't help that they've been doing frick all while they're focused on porting to UE5
>porting to UE5
holy waste of time, a game that couldn’t even be arsed to not clip everywhere is worried about graphics? literally just scamming epic games at this point
They even spent a lot of time upgrading across multiple versions of UE4 so they could add experimental dx12 and vulkan support (still experimental)
I wish they'd focus on actually finishing the game before bothering with the le newest graphics stuff
>early access for 4.5 years
>still nowhere near done
the scam citizen of factory games
Are they done with their engine migration yet
It's been a year
>coffee shitstain studios has still not made Sanctum 3
>one of the only games to get away with a bait-and-switch EGS release (advertise it was being released on steam, pull it off steam and go epic exclusive some time before release)
no thanks
>playing <game> when <watered down version of game> exists
lol, lmao...
terrible bait a game like this can't be first person factories are frick huge. Plus the amount of power needed to run large scale its beyond moronic to make a game like this in a large 3D world. 2/10 apply yourself JFC
I can't believe it's still early access.
I only buy games on sale, simply out of principle.
Factorio never goes on sale, I never buy Factorio.
So instead of making a bit money they make no money off me.
That said, I found the rationale behind that decision to be pretty moronic and reeking of regular corporate greed, despite there being no need for that.
Start Krastorio 2 or power through this modded mc pack until I get the actual fun tools
I see, too busy replying to shitposts to notice actual posts
no thanks, I made my own
>he didn't pirate it
a friend bought it for me but then basically played the game to the point that i didnt know what was what, I was just a soulless bug killer and dropped the game...
>t.
A single game studio needs to get revenue somewhere.
Then just pirate it you homosexual what’s the problem? If you have a problem with the dev it’s even more justified
I played pirated version for 200 hours until deciding it's worth my money. Even then it was 20€ at the time. I've played 1800 hours more since. Best content-to-value in any game I've played, ever.
Anyways post factories you homosexuals
post factories you homosexuals
Nice ancient screenshot. Here's another
>Separate curved rail section
>Pickaxe item
>Alien artifacts
Yep, it's Factorio time
Pic related was from my first playthrough, took me 90 hours. I was having a hard time getting my shit rekt by biters because for the longest time I was still creating mad pollution from the starter steam engines making power when I had those turbine things and solar panels unlocked for ages but didn't know to use them. I am currently in my second playthrough. I am trying hard to automate shit but I get lost in my own conveyor belts of mess and still keep doing shit myself. I need to learn how those robot things work too. Your screenshot factory looks very neat and clean. I wish I could make my shit look/work efficient.
It's okay as long as it works, but there's the hook of factorio: can I do better?
You can probably start another run with different designs or ideas in mind, and let me tell you, robots are a godsend
A nice trick I'll try recommending you is, try to get very basic trains that pick up ore and drop them on smelteries, and then ship those plates by train to your base. Dont try to be smart at first, just get it working somehow, use as many trains as you need, and then once its working, try to be smart about it
average steambaby when he doesn't get to buy another game at 90% off that he's never actually going to play
I already bought the game and dropped 1k hours into it. Why would I care if the price increases when it doesn't effect me?
>i consumed product many years ago, why would i care about product being expensive nowadays?
Enjoy your $35 expansion.
Thanks, I will!
>Thanks, I will!
>claiming factorio players are consumers because they're buying ONE expansion for ONE game that they bought and put 1000+ hours into (and will most likely put the same amount of hours if not more into said expansion)
sales are fake, it's 100% marketing.
factorio is losing money by not using sales, because people would not have been interested in the game if it wasn't on sale.
but because it's fake, factorio could make their game $60, and make the sale $30 on winter/summer sale + short sales to force people who have FOMO to buy the game (not knowing the sale happens often), and unaware consumers would buy the game at $60 without knowing that about sales.
Sony does this with headphones, WOW, a $500 pair of headphones 50% off? I GOTTA GET IT!
>tfw i have to corroborate with camelcamelcamel or the like when buying any physical item online every single time to check if the sales werent bullshit
makes me wonder if there's a similar utility but for brick and mortar stores...
>The speech impediment is microsoft sam
If it never goes on sale, then i'll never buy it.
Simple as.
Best game ever made
Dev team is second to none in quality.
Stockholm syndrome
I like this one more.
It's not even the same type of game
oh yeah this one is really good
it feels very basic compared to factorio and theres 0 automation
but it's pretty good
>make an "automation" game
>all resources go into and are taken from a global per (very tiny) map pool
shallow trash
>NOOOOOOO WHERE AT THE CRATES??? I NEED CRATES!!!!!!
what crates? the one you need to build in riftbreaker to expand your global storage?
>tfw play all the factory games
DSP is fun.
Factorio is still king. Satisfactory is the video game equivalent of stepping on something wet in the dark while wearing socks.
Staisfactory isnt all bad. Its just very difficult to ramp up any sort of production easily. And shit takes FOREVER to craft enough to launch the needle.
Satisfactory makes it a massive pain in the ass to actually build your factory
just install mod for bigger blueprints
I shouldn't have to install mods to make a game not suck ass
The exploration in that game is fun but the actual factory part fricking sucks
having to work with biomass for awhile before getting coal is the biggest pain to me. assemblers are slow as hell making smart plates, too
being able to walk around your factory once it's finished in 3d is super comfy
i hope they improve the building system some more in future updates
what's dsp
darksydephil, duh
dyson sphere program
>wow I need to siphon energy from a star to power my factory? CMAHN DUDE
Dyson Sphere Program. Chinese Factorio. It's solid. Not as good as Factorio if you can only choose one but it's still solid. When you get your dyson swarms/spheres going it will absolutely stun you at some point. Like you'll just be setting up miners and you'll catch the sunrise with your dyson swarm lazily zipping around the star and you'll just sit there and stare at it for a while.
because they exposed scam artists.
>never goes on sale
>steam key sites selling games below retail
>prove the keys were stolen
>only company that can win the lawsuit against G2A
So many people in this thread need to seek employment. Holy frick.
>corporations
It's one small software company.
*casually causes russian butthurt rivaling the combined strength of their entire nuclear arsenal*
when i saw how deep the tech tree went im glad i never bought it and they never have sales
Honestly, I'm probably gonna pirate the DLC if I bother with it at all after the "infltion adjustment" nonsense.
>bought it 6 years ago for $15
Feels good man, newbies BTFO
I really like everything about the new rails except the too clean look. Aside from not being a smooth curve the old rails just looked a little more rugged.
Yeah I'm not overly fond of how perfect they look.
Glad I'm not the only one. Doesn't seem to interest many others, though. I hope they roughen them a little before release.
>how perfect
there is only one "perfect"
Your mom has been perfect a couple times now.
easy, no fomo
I have bought this game three times between me and my wife
>devs support israelitekraine
steamunlocked it is
when did they ever state this
never
the whole world is persecuting le poor innocent russians
stop projecting your mental illness onto others
factorio.com
>devs support Ukraine
Based, death to all soviets.
It's just the Red Cross
>czech dev doesn't like ivan
whoa
i have hundreds of hours in this game, but never fully understood the oil system. No matter how many derricks i build, how many pipelines, oil always remains the bottleneck. is there only so much oil that can be used at a time?
>is there only so much oil that can be used at a time?
What does that even mean?
does the game limit the amount of oil that can be used at a time? because this would be the only way i could explain that no matter how much oil i pump into my factory, refineries never seem to be able to produce enough
i am pretty sure i am doing this
How are you delivering oil to your refineries then? If you're using extremely long oil pipelines then you need to make sure to place pumps every so often so that the pressure keeps up. Otherwise you'll only get a trickle of oil in over long distances.
If you're using trains with oil wagons then I don't know, I'd have to see your setup.
delivering by pipes. this could be it. will try it out, thanks
And make sure they're pointing in the right direction!
i feel really stupid. always wondered why these pumps could not be placed at water. thanks anon
Also if you didn't know - use underground pipes as much as you can instead of normal pipes (fluid flow is instant underground)
Sounds like you aren't properly "balancing" your petroleum, light, and heavy oils. If any of the tanks holding your output oil get full then the refineries will stop producing ALL oils. You need to make sure to convert all your excess heavy oil into light oil, then light oil into petroleum.
Well hard to say what you're doing wrong without a screenshot, but let me assure you that proper handling of fluids is possible.
Do you really need that much fluids? I find 2-4 tanks can keep up with most productions.
cutely moronic
Why are other indie devs so jealous that fans will happily pay a little bit more for a game that is so good that players routinely log multiple thousands of hours in it?
Love the game. Finished it 4 times by now I think. Last game that made me do an all nighter cause I couldn't fall asleep thinking about it. But because it never goes on sale I am never going to buy it.
you are the moronest of morons. game never goes on sale and have increased price twice so even a regular moron would get the clue. either buy now before next increase or pirate. instead you complain on the internet. you are this moronic
So there are mods with remote vehicle control so you can turn the game into a damn RTS, but nothing that makes biters more varied or elaborate?
Seems like you can only mod them to be more thick skinned and do damage or explode on death
rampant
They might pull that stick out of their asses with the 2.0 update, seeing how that stubborn mule finally admitted disabling research queue was fricking moronic, but seeing how it worked just fine so far I wouldnt count on it
whats the appeal of this game
autism?
yes
the autism must flow
optimization. It's a lot of fun. It's also relaxing and chill because it's single player. There's a bunch of mods too that add a bunch of gameplay variety
have you never played a puzzle game, anything that made your braincells not take turns and actually focus and plan ahead?
This is basically crack to people who enjoy building and management games
Autism is such a misused term.
just torrent and play zachtronics games too
wait, gatekeeping is bad now? Ganker is truly dead
you guys know piracy exists... right?
What's with this chuddie argument? piracy is bad
>waaaaaaaah why isn't this game $1.99??? This is racist!
The game gets free updates, and improves with time. the dollar gets less valuable over time. Come up with an argument why he should sell this game for pocket change outside of "other people do it". It's refreshing to have someone respect their early adopters and not drop an overinflated launch price 12 months later after they've gotten the paypigs' money.
>the dollar gets less valuable over time
(citation needed)
Are you moronic or just a homosexual pretending to be a moron?
there are non-burgers here too
The euro is no better, and every other currency is a joke.
i take it back
You admitted your mistakes, so I take back my insult.
If only there were more like like you on this site
Right back at ya.
https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1800?amount=1
>stops being held to the gold standard
>controlled by an organization that has governmental power but not governmental responsibility
>gets printed en masse so everyone gets richer! Genius!
>let's give everyone free money! Genius!
The Fed
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SA0R
Sorry, my (
) bad
Actual source is the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Using this handy dandy inflation calculator, you can see that for the value for to remain the same they should sell for $36.91, but they sell for $35, so the game is right now under 5% discout
discount?! NAH AH, time to write ticket to devs!
>The game gets free updates
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
the game hasn't received ONE fricking addition since the fricking beta.
>what is version 1.1
Train station limits, my beloved
>>this is celebrated by the community as some sort of gatekeeping
>implying the game requires any form of gatekeeping when the game itself is a moron filter
>>it never goes on sale due to the no sales policy
This is based. Sales are just a marketing tactic to trick you into spending money. You are legitimately sub 90 iq if you don't understand this
>corporations
In this case you are giving money directly to the creators and people working on the game, not some piece of shit empty suit like Bobby colddick
Just pirate it, idiot. If you're stupid to pirate a game, you're to stupid to play it.
>americans wake up
>thread goes to shit
everytime
Exactly what time do you think it is in America right now
Who's ready for Space Exploration Jr.
I really hope I don't need 20 turrets to break up an asteroid the size of my factory
game is good, I don't mind paying for a good game.
If you don't want to pay for games, you can always pirate them.
gatekeeping is good
nobody likes you and nobody wants you around
:O
>big electric pole buff to 32 tiles
finally
yea i was pretty pumped about that
seems so small yet its one of my main frustrations. Their demo of the rails fitting in tighter spots is mentally how Ive envisioned so many things and have been hamstrung.
that game is literal crack
I can spend 8 hours on it like NOTHING
so is the space exploration what happens when you launch a rocket now or is it a seperate gamemode
It will be an expansion for the game, no release date yet, but they're saying it's been done content-wise since a year and they're playtesting and fixing bugs now.
Space Exploration is a mod. Space Age is the upcoming expansion.
I never understood why some people call them greedy for this. Sales make more money than selling the game full price all the time and they acknowledge it.
Why is voluntarily making less money israeli?
I'm convinced most people in these threads have no interest in the game itself and are only here for the shitposting. Anyone who cares about factorio has either bought it or pirated it.
>Factorio expansion coming next year
>DSP finally getting enemies added around Christmas
Things are looking good
Great game that isn't cucked by globohomo
got my copy back in 2016 because I'm white