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WHERE IS THE SALE
HOW CAN THEY DO THIS
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
+ $15 for the expansion ;^)
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WHERE IS THE SALE
HOW CAN THEY DO THIS
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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fun game shame I'm too fricking moronic to play it
I'm dumb as a shoe and I have lots of fun with it.
Same, I still really enjoy it even though I'm a brainlet.
>fun game shame I'm too fricking moronic to play it
I don't think it's that. Well at least for me that is. I can't make something so complex because I will lose focus and completely forget about what I need to work on
There's really nothing in it that you need to be smart for, if you just want to beat the game it's very easy to messily brute force, if you want to make something efficient though then sure that can take some thinking
I don't think I've ever actually heard of a Steam game going UP in price after release
I haven't heard of any game going up on price due to inflation. $70 PS5/Xfridge games are just because Microsoft and Sony are massive buttholes since they also bumped up the games to $60 with PS3/360 whole Nintendo stuck with $50.
Handheld games should cost fewer than 50$
It happens but rarely because people always (and justifiably so) get angry when prices go up instead of getting price cuts and it generates unnecessary bad publicity.
Last Epoch had a price increase but it's still in EA
Hunt also had a price increase after release. Funny how they just decided to charge you more for literally nothing.
the same is happening to rain world in a month
Many such cases, check NiS for example.
>last year
>we are gonna rise years old Labyrinth of Refrain price and various other ancient titles
>because we can
At least they had honor to not give a frick, saying "inflation" is dumbest excuse you can have.
>it's based and epicpilled because they didn't give a hecking F*CK!!
>business exist to make money
>one business do just that
>another do just that but uses lamest excuses for their greed
Second one is gay and so you are.
>saying "inflation" is dumbest excuse you can have.
t. leftconomist
the judgement collection went from 100 euros to 130 euros
Prease understand, small indie company.
Now that Factorio has done it the flood gates have opened, there will be many such cases
imagine if totk comes out and the starting price is 70$
how will tendies react
I will just download the rom anyway, price doesn't matter
it's a day 1 buy. no game has come close to BotW 1, not Cyberjunk, not Elden Mid, not the b***her 3, NOTHING. it could release at $100, everyone with a brain will still buy it.
>everyone with a brain will still buy it
Why would anyone with a brain pay even a dime for it after BotW?
BotW is the greatest game of all time. Why would anyone not buy the sequel?
nintendies really like their ubisoft games huh
of course it will be, botw itself is 70€ in europe it's only a matter of time
Day Z I think.
How much work is actually being done on the Facto base game anyway? Companies justifying price gouging due to inflation is common, but it seems especially weird for what is a digital sale.
>price gouging
>DayZ going up after release.
morons deserve to get israelited by those gay devs
The muse dash DLC went from $20 to $30 after a couple years iirc
But buying it once and you get everything including future updates
The Muse Dash DLC actually added a bunch more song packs over those years though.
What has Factorio added since it went to $30? Some better graphics and ui, some recipe adjustments, and a few other minor features.
It happened for deep rock galactic.
It's still 30 bucks for me just as it always has been since leaving early access.
A lower price while the game is still in EA is common as a means to get people to beta test for you but increasing the price after offcial release isn't.
>le (You) farming
ffxiv went up in price on steam for some countries
Shovel Knight went up to $40 at some point.
There are definitely some games that raise their price because they're adding loads more content
But I have never seen a game raise their price because of "inflation"
Like wtf
Total War Medieval 2 gold used to be $10 and they've been slowly raising it over the years. Sitting at $25 right now.
it's on gog so it free to me 😉
What a greedy fricking absolute bastard, so glad i'm never buying this piece of crap game.
If you followed along with their development you'd know they're really not all that greedy
>Game started with an Indiegogo campaign
>Indiegogo differs from Kickstarter in that the devs get the money up front instead of only getting it if they meet their funding goal
>Indiegogo campaign didn't reach its goal
>Since it didn't reach its goal, devs offered full refunds to everyone who wanted refunds
A greedy dev would have just fricked off with the money with a cheerful "Oh shit, guess we're just going to have to cancel the game since we just barely missed our funding goal! Thanks for the free money gays!"
I hate these fricking c**ts. Even my local baker and farmers have posted price increase notices.
It's literally fear of missing out but with money.
"Woah if everyoen is increasing their price by 10-15% then I'm a fricking idiot for not doing it huh! Surely the economy will fix itself later"
Welcome to a inflationary economy broski, enjoy the ride
I sure hope you don't just assume every business you see is swimming in profit instead of raising to meet inflation just to stay above water
No I don't assume business are getting records profit in 2022 that I will admit but do you seriously think people are getting 5-6% salary increases at the end of the year?
Here's a graph of my country's inflation rate of the late decade or so. This is the first time in recent memory where I see people jacking up prices instantly in just a few months, and where people are not even surprised because the media is bombarding us that "INFLATION IS GONNA RUIN THE ECONOMY".
So now we're stuck in a place where it's now socially acceptable to price fix shit to ridiculous degrees because of mass hysteria.
>I will admit but do you seriously think people are getting 5-6% salary increases at the end of the year?
Of course not, but that's not your small local baker's problem. Big corpos sure, they're gouging people. But small businesses usually don't make that much money and are in a similar spot to you, the price to make their products went up but they didn't exactly get a "raise" aka more revenue
a lot of large corporations, especially industry, are in quite a lot of trouble as well. when your operating margin is five percent a 30% increase in operating expenses is a bit of a b***h
That's the funny thing.
>costs are up
>oh dang. So you're paying workers more
>no
>wait, what's inflated then
>our suppliers increased their prices
>oh, they are paying their workers more then
>no
>then why are prices being raised
>...uh...covid. Wait Ukraine. Actually, climate change. No wait, Drumpf.
Prices go up because the market can bear it. If people stop buying at those new prices they'll have to go down or the business will fail.
of course he is, he's moronic
think frickhead, if all their costs are going up, who are they going to pass that on to? That's right, the end consumer, you
>”Woah if everyoen is increasing their price by 10-15% then I'm a fricking idiot for not doing it huh!”
When that “everyone” includes their suppliers then yes, they would be idiots for not doing it. I don’t know where your morons get the idea that inflation isn’t a real thing, it’s obviously politically motivated but I can’t even tell what angle you’re coming from. Help me out here, is it a israeli scheme to swindle the hardworking white man, or a nefarious plot to discredit the government after it exponentially increased the money supply over the past 3 years which of course *should* have had no negative consequences whatsoever?
Nta but israeli scheme to swindle the white man who has no control over their own gubmint
If the people now screaming the loudest weren’t also the ones screaming that the government should put half the country out of work and print their salaries 3 years ago I’d be more sympathetic.
I get that you're talking in a general sense, but... Suppliers? This is a video game, a finished one at that. Development has already been paid for using pre-inflation dollars, so at this point it costs exactly $0 to "produce and ship" a new copy of Factorio to the steam store. Even Steam itself charges a percentage instead of a flat fee, so it's not like Steam has suddenly forced their hand either.
Clearly their motive is to boost sales on their 3 year old game without just running a sale like every other sensible developer, taking advantage of FOMO using a stick instead of a carrot. I guarantee you they wouldn't be lowering the price if for whatever reason we were experiencing DEflation.
>X makes game
>sells game
>plans to live on the money he gets from selling the game, as well as save up to buy a house or whatever else
>inflation hits
>living costs rise, as well as the prices for houses and whatever else
>rising prices is the only logical thing
>NOOOOOOO WHAT THE HELL BROS... HE CAN'T RISE PRICES!!!!
if your company doesnt match the economic growth of other companies around you, you arent growing, youre actually on the negative for growing too slow. welcome to infinite upwards economy.
You Americans get what you voted for kek
It's so much worse in Europe albeithoughever
Inflation is rapidly decreasing in the US
Voted? I didn't vote for that.
Everything's going up except my salary, bros...
Baker and farmer makes sense. They have physical inputs that have risen in price. They produce new product, and then sell it. Inflation hikes on an already produced product that is sold without any increases inputs...that's just plain israelitery.
you literally voted for this, you think people joke when they say leftists ruin economies?
Yes anon, that's what inflation is.
it'a a prelude to hyperinflation anon. Either go out of business now by keeping prices low, or raise the prices to last a few more years until the whole country is collectively fricked like Argentina.
welcome to late-stage capitalism
israelite socialism*
>moron learns what the economy is
wew
This shouldn't be legal.
Raising prices on a product you're selling should be illegal?
"gibs me dat for free". no point in discussing with Black folk.
eh he still makes the SJWs seethe so tbh he and his staff deserve to protect their wages
There goes their "overwhelmingly positive" rating.
Definitely bullshit, they're luckly they made an exceptionally good game. They've gotta be making money hand over fist at this point now that their game is more popular than ever.
Price increases like this aren't too uncommon on Steam, and are usually not badly recieved.
>There goes their "overwhelmingly positive" rating.
You can only review if you buy it. Poor gays are almost never the cause of any review bomb.
>Adjusting games for inflation
Holy frick. We are in a clown world afterall.
>wtf people who sell games need more money when life is more expensive???????? LE CLOWN LE PEPE LE EBIN GEMERINOS I MEME ALL THE TIME I AM LE COOL OK *posts picture of moron laughing*
it's a 7 year old indie game you idiot. It should be 5 bucks at most for the quality of game you are getting.
>it should cost 5 bucks
>Why?
>BECAUSE I SAID SO
>BECAUSE I SAID SO
>BECAUSE I SAID SO
Yes.
Because the people who would already have bought the game at full price have already done so. Sales incentivizes more sales from people who weren't willing to buy the game at full price. It also creates a bit of FOMO and encourages impulse buys.
How can you be so fricking moronic?
Factorio reached 3.5 million sales in 2022
and now imagine how many more sales it could have reached if it had been on a steam sale. No one is saying the devs aren't making money, they are just making far less money than they could make.
No, it's a quality work, the best rated quality work on steam. People WILL pay 30 dollars for it(especially when DLC arrives), none needs money of dirty poor gays for some few millions extra dollars
>People WILL pay 30 dollars for it
You mean 35 dollars.
>Sales incentivizes more sales from people who weren't willing to buy the game at full price. It also creates a bit of FOMO and encourages impulse buys.
How can you be so fricking moronic?
And you're defending greedy israelitery because...?
>A GAME THATS NEARLY A DECADE OLD SHOULD BE MORE EXPENSIVE!!! LIFE IS MORE EXPENSIVE NOW SO IT SHOULD ALSO BE!
Who said "should", devs decided on that price to sell their product. Do you have problem with that?
>Do you have problem with that?
NO my overlord devs. I must consoooooom your product. Please raise prices for no reason. PLEASE I WANT UR GAMES ALL OVER ME.
You are 100% a bootlicking zoomer.
NTA,
So you just don't understand what inflation is?
>NTA,
fricking stop with this
NTA, but why should they stop this?
it's stupid and fricking obvious and this website worked perfectly fine without this annoying shit
Signed,
Anonymous
NTA, but you're a homosexual moron
babby's first anonymous imageboard comment
>NTA
Do you understand that inflation should in no way, shape or form apply to a SEVEN YEAR OLD DIGITAL PRODUCT?? Imagine if activision ups the price for all of their games, even the ones they released seven years ago, is that logical?
Fricking dumb fruit bastard killed his game, I don't even care anymore.
Why do you think just because something is seven years old and available digitally means that it is not affected by inflation?
What costs involved with this game have increased due to inflation?
The people that work on the game obviously
the game is complete and they are no longer working on it. They are working on an expansion but the costs of that do not drive up the cost of the original game. Nice try schlomo
>the game is complete and they are no longer working on it
Do you know anything about what you're talking about?
They bring out updates/fixes all the time
They are currently working on bringing the game to other devices
They are currently working on making an expansion to the game
These 3 involve a labor cost increases with inflation
>They bring out updates/fixes all the time
So fixing their flawed product?
>They are currently working on bringing the game to other devices
Why should I care about or bear the costs of other devices' ports on this specific device?
>They are currently working on making an expansion to the game
Which will be sold separately.
>So fixing their flawed product?
Yes? Those that fix things need to be paid for their labor, are you moronic?
>Why should I care about or bear the costs of other devices' ports on this specific device?
Whether or not you care about the game being devd on other devices is irrelevant. There is a cost involved that is covered by the sale of their currently released game
>Which will be sold separately.
Yeah and the people making it need to be paid right now moron. Do you think the workers are going to wait years to an expac to come out before the receive a paycheck?
>They bring out updates/fixes all the time
Every few months is not "all the time".
>They are currently working on bringing the game to other devices
Not my problem.
>They are currently working on making an expansion to the game
Which is not related to the cost of the original game. They will charge 30 bux for the expansion, but they also want to be paid extra for the original because...?
listen to yourself you fricking ponce
He can raise prices and I can pirate the game. We're both free agents and make our own choices.
So why so much fricking butthurt in this thread
>I would buy it if it cost 15 bucks!
No you wouldn't, you'd find another excuse to pirate it
>Ganker is one person
>as a game ages it should get cheaper
>why?
>because, it JUST DOES OK??!?!?
Just don't buy it.
Because demand goes does. What movies cost more on DVD, the latest releases or old ones?
>Because demand goes does.
In that case, Factorio sales will drop and the owner will have to take the hit for his poor decision.
Alternatively, demand continues high and the price hike will be justified, and you will be very angry/sad because someone else made money fair and square.
>Alternatively, demand continues high and the price hike will be justified, and you will be very angry/sad because someone else made money fair and square.
Yes that is correct. Although I don't think that's what has happened in this case.
>Although I don't think that's what has happened in this case.
It's already happened before with the previous price hike, and in 1 year you'll be angrily posting about NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOW COME THEY HIKED THE PRICE TO 35 AND IT'S STILL SELLING A LOT? AUUUGHHH
what inflation??? the game has already been created!!!!!!!! there are 0 costs involved at this point. they just want more money, these greedy israelites are pushing it way too far
Unironically this, the cost they spend making patches or updates is nothing compared to the initial making of the game. This is just pure fricking greed. Just like how they are trying to push 70 dollar games.
I assume you're also against selling digital games right?
how is that in any way related to my post?
you're not very bright are you?
>what inflation??? the game has already been created!!!!!!!! there are 0 costs involved at this point. they just want more money, these greedy israelites are pushing it way too far
what inflation??? the house has already been created!!!!!!!! there are 0 costs involved at this point. they just want more money,
Yes as a homeowner I agree with that. why should anyone pay more for the house than I paid for it unless I have made some kind of home improvement or extension?
Why can't you answer my question? ironically, you are the one desperately trying to feel more intelligent
>why should anyone pay more for the house than I paid for it unless I have made some kind of home improvement or extension?
are you fricking moronic? is there a radon leak in the basement of this home you own?
Answer the question, why should anyone pay more for it if nothing has changed?
>muh inflation
Is not an answer. Inflation is a creation of the israelites to keep the common man poor and in wage slavery.
They don't understand anon, Or they have rental properties that they want to be able to justify multiple rent increases throughout the year and blame it on someone else other than their own greed.
you can't just disregard the facts of reality (inflation) when trying to understand something real that is impacting you, unless you're trying to have a philosophical discussion with that anon, i don't think you're on the same page
it's a communist (sunwheel flavor), he doesn't even agree with the premise that "someone who creates something should be free to sell it at whatever price he wishes"
>Answer the question, why should anyone pay more for it if nothing has changed?
Dollar in 1970 > Dollar in 2023
sellers want to charge the highest price that the market will bear. this is true of every fricking product.
for this product, the labor of piracy and the risk of malware is the effective sales price.
sales, coupons, bogos are all tactics that sellers use to encourage customers to buy things which they do not need. that is the fomo.
I tried the demo; game bores me. I wouldn't pirate it or buy it. I don't give a frick.
what a fricking israelite
kek that one autist who b***hes about it never going on sale BTFO.
Does this game have Denuvo? If not, then the game is on a 100% discount at any time, so why would anyone get mad that it isn't on a sale?
No, it has no DRM. Why are people getting assblasted about price increases? If you're interested you already bought it.
>Raising the price of a 7 year old game
Holy frick my sides.
tfw waitgays eternally btfo
early adopter chads ww@
I remember when VTMB was like $5 for years after its release until all those essay youtubers started making videos about it and Activision hiked the price up to $20 again. Now it doesn't even go down to $5 during major sales, lol.
I got vtmb for free with a mag
Free
Factorio in 2016 wasn't really the same game.
>people are surprised that autistic moron who never does sales because "it devalues the product" increases the price to not devalue the product
>have already made a fortune from their game
>rather than allowing the price to naturally depreciate over time, they continue to jack it up at a time when people are feeling most financially precarious
What total fricking c**ts, at least it's easy to pirate
This is what happens when you expect one game to feed you your entire life. Imagine if EA suddenly decided to increase the price of a game from 2016. You would clown on them for days.
Imo EA games could increase their price after 1.0, the whole early access period being risky for the customer. The price should reflect the existing product, not the lofty promises.
are you moronic? EA makes billions per year from gacha loot boxes in which the drops expire every year
The devs are already set for life. This is just plain greed.
>The devs are already set for life.
how so? how much money did they make? how much money is "enough" money? enough for who? for you?
>This is just plain greed.
You are angry that you don't want to pay for something and you call them greedy?
Just pirate the game and shut the frick up already.
set for life for neets is 200k lol
Set life in my country is something like 50k
what if the dude wants to make more money?
>oh shit, I'd better stop making money because some moronic ancom on Ganker said that I'm set for life
Dunno, I don't know how greedy people want to live.
>I'll call him a villain and treat him as such!
I really wish we could live apart from commies and commies were all shoved together and forced to stay together
kys
hahaha poorgay
Piratechads, we won
Glad I've already bought this game before. Devs that never put their games on sale are so weird.
Who the frick cares about Factorio and hasn't bought it yet
both Nixon and FDR froze prices and wages to try to strangle-hold inflation
why is Biden such a pussy
implying biden isnt profiting off it inflation
Because everyone since the antichrist Reagan was a neolibcuck, FDR's economic policies were antithesis of that.
a president doing something for his people? what are you talking about?
morons in thus thread dont understand inflation. Not surprised. All it means is that the supply of dollars has been increased, so the value of each individual dollar has decreased. You money is worth less, so of course you're gonna need to charge more to make the same amount of value you were before inflation. That doesnt mean you shouldnt be mad, but dont be mad at private businesses who had no say in the matter. Be mad at the Federal Reserve and the big banks that push for it because they want to strangle out anything they dont control.
because that makes things worse. You're basically saying "the government should force people to stay poor". price controls didnt work in either of the cases you mentioned and they never will.
>Ludwig Von Mises
I thought you lolbertarians went extinct when Ron Paul dropped out of Politics.
Why would you expect to make the same on a product that is 7 years old.
The supply of dollars has been increased primarily for the super wealthy and not general circulation.
Asset price inflation is expected from that, not goods price inflation.
>Raising the price
>Never putting it on sale
Glad I never bought it and pirated Satisfactory instead.
I get they have the right to do it, I just don't appreciate they lied
Don't worry, their rabid fanbase will crush anybody who complains.
I fricking hate Factorio and I've never even played it. It's like Undertale or Vampire Survivors, the fans are so insanely defensive they make me never want to touch it.
>willingly missing out on good games because other people enjoy it a bit too much
honestly, i feel sorry for you
not because of factorio or undertale though, but i wonder just how much you've missed out on due to your autism
>not because of factorio or undertale
Why mention those two pieces of shit then? I'll be fine without them anon. You just proved his point.
>Why mention those two pieces of shit then?
Because the post I was literally fricking replying to mentioned them.
You sound like one of the lunatics he's talking about. There are already more games that I want to play than I'll ever have time to, so I won't lose much sleep over "missing out" on the ones with cancerous fanbases.
>I fricking hate Factorio and I've never even played it. It's like Undertale or Vampire Survivors, the fans are so insanely defensive they make me never want to touch it.
>we're happy that this game costs 30 bucks, this is extremely high quality product and deserves this price
>DIE, DIE YOU SCUM ANIMAL, I HATE YOU, I FRICKING HATE YOU SO MUCH. I WILL NEVER, EVER PLAY YOUR SHITTY STUPID GAME
At your level of autism he wouldn't even be allowed to do sales.
>the price won't increase after ea
>that means he wouldn't be allowed to lower his prices
I don't follow your logic
decreasing is just increasing by a negative number.
>sale ends
>price increases
>after ea
clear violation of his promise
you two are fricking with me, right? I didn't think it'd be controversial to point out this dev lied about price increasing
Where's the lie? The price is still lower than it was in EA.
NOOOOOOOOOO DON'T LOOK AT THE INFLATION RATE
#I'MWITHHER
#BUILDBACKBETTER
it was $20 at the start of it's early access release
but games that come out of EA raise their prices, every time
I agree, maybe I'm misinterpreting the previous post then
Wait a second, you are telling that I can exchange dollar bill from 2016 to 1,24 dollars? WOW
>brb checking my local bank
YOU ARE FRICKING moron
My
local bank said that's not how it work and 1$ is 1$
FRICK OFF WITH OUR DISINFORMATION
then correct him? crying disinfo and not doing anything about it is just as bad
the factorio devs LITERALLY don't do sales, literally (proper use of the word)
something along the lines of "it didn't increase it's the same effective price under inflation :)"
already pirated it
never played it
never will
>buy on steam
>play for 0.1 hours
>negative review
>refund game
>go back to playing games that are nothing like factorio
Y'all white folks are not ready for what's coming
Gaucho bro, impart your wisdom. How do you weather the storm?
Argies are pussies.
dirty disgusting chicano lol
work harder
dirty disgusting chicano lol
work harder
dirty disgusting chicano lol
work harder
How do we survive White Hispanic overlord? Write an instruction manual.
>increasing the price of a 7 year old game because they can
lol
lmao
this is true israelitery. I almost want to applaud them for being so fricking israelitey.
>inflation for a digital game
what in the frick
hey israelites, you know a game is supposed to get CHEAPER as years go by, not more expensive, right?
> completed product needing to keep up with inflation
what
Pirating it multiple times to cripple them financially
>satisfactory still not $15 or lower on sale
>FF12 still hasn't dipped below 25 dollars on sale
>It's been out for almost 5 years
squenix pls
The game is 16 years old and you can find it with the manual and everything for like $10
where?
>"erm uhhh erm erm erm it's out there, okay?????"
nta, I googled it just now and there's someone on ebay selling it for $10, game+manual, the rub is that shipping is 5 bucks
Black ops 1 is still $40
Worth it. I've sunk thousands of hours into it and waiting for the expansion
itt seething commies
>He thinks capitalism means democracy/freedom
>He doesn't know the biggest communist countries on Earth are capitalist (Russia/China)
>capitalism means routinely assassinating the millionaires and billionaires
>capitalism means disappearing and neutering one of the brightest and most enthusiastic entrepreneurs in the world, Jack Ma
>brightest and most enthusiastic entrepreneurs in the world, Jack Ma
Have you ever heard Jack Ma talk? Man was fricking moronic
He was also about to catapult China a leap forward economically, until the CCP basically took him out back and shot him in the head. Now he's a zombie.
>He doesn't know of all the deaths under capitalism
>He doesn't know about all the people blackmailed and extorted to feed the capitalisr engine
>He doesn't know CEOs would hire people to kill you if you interfere with the quarterly gains
It's good that you don't know these things but sad that you think democracy still exists.
The term you are looking for is oilglarcy. Many tend to confuse that with capitalism. You are welcome.
>it's not real capitalism
>real capitalism wasn't tried yet
Imagine thinking a dead billionaire isn't a 100% improvement to the world.
That's authoritarianism in general.
Obviously there are plenty examples of both capitalist and communist regimes that would do something like this.
It has literally infinite playtime.
anything has technically, depends if you want to or not
Seems like a good deal to me :^)
not only did you waste 30 bucks, you wasted 3300 hours of your life that you are never going to get back. How is that a good deal?
>30 bucks
Nope :^)
>You are worthless piece of shit becasue you waste your life on video games.
>Presented to you by: Ganker - video games.
OK...
It is so hilarious that the devs of Factorio can't handle basic economic inputs and outputs.
There's clearly a bottleneck in your video gane delivery pipeline caused by never putting the fricking thing on sale.
It's niche enough to have a dedicated following of autistic whales, same with other games that milk their audiences dry.
How can a dedicated fanbase be monetized if the game is just a one and done purchase without any micro transactions? Last I checked, I don't think Factorio has a cash shop or a battle pass or anything else that would make anyone spend money past their initial purchase price.
Word of mouth spreads among other autists + there's an expansion in the works.
And i was talking in general terms, including games like Paradox GSGs, Rimworld etc
I think they're right in not wanting the game to be on sale. You wouldn't want your work to be devalorized.
Maybe it's pride or ego but I can understand that. However the factorio devs are czech and cost of living there is way lower than western europe or the US so even the base game being 30euros is insulting to their own people when people earn 600 a month.
>devalorized
The game is made, every dollar made is a dollar of revenue not made yet.
Like I said, rocket scientists failing Econ101.
I don't like this line of thinking. It's like if you argued that ideas and anything creative that can be monetized should be adjusted for inflation and in the context of videogames where you have infinite supply it just sounds like greed more than anything else.
>Everyone who likes this kind of game will pay 30 dollars for it
>You NEED to put it to 15 dollars to capture thirdworldshitter audience that make your game worse by merely existing
You can do that by setting up regional pricing.
more like they have infinite supply and sufficient demand to raise prices and maintain a healthy profit margin. they don't care about piracy; that's part of the cost of business and is already factored into the base cost of the game.
At this point though wouldn't everyone had already bought it that wants it? They'll just make even LESS money now.
I mean its working fine for them
>the devs don't know what they're doing!!!
>indie game sold over 3.5 million units
HMMMMMMM
I would never buy this game now on basic principle
>All these drones in the comments cheering for the price increase and encourage them to increase it more
Is the dev of this game legitimately moronic? Does he believe triple A publishers like EA, Activision and Ubisoft lower the prices of their older games and put them on sales out of the goodness of their heart and not because it leads to more sales and higher profit?
That can happen if your company shits out Call Of Duty 1, then 2, then 3, then 4. Lowering 1's price is better.
But there's no Factorio 2 or 3.
but other indie devs do it too. Hollow Knight, Valheim, Hades, Vampire Survivors, Stardew Valley etc are frequently on sale and they made a lot more money than Factorio. A lot of that is in fact thanks to them going on sale and reaching a much larger audience that would otherwise not have tried those games. Face it, the factorio devs simply don't understand how business works. They got lucky and they made their money despite of that, but they sure as hell left millions of $ on the table due to their stubbornness, greed and autism.
Holy shit, the poorgays came in full force.
bootlickers in full force
>WHAT DA FRICK DOOD, 5 DOLLAS?! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY CHEEZBURGAS I COULD GET FOR DAT???
I will gladly purchase a new copy of the game with the adjusted price because I want to support the developer.
You were just going to pirate the game anyway, why are you throwing a tantrum?
nobody cares
Call of Duty is better XD
Reminder that inflation is mostly based on greed in 2023. It's not even just lack of supply and raw materials.
https://www.twitter.com/factoriogame/status/1616388275169628162
Based on the replies people don't seem to mind, in fact they seem to be willing to pay even more for a game that was released years ago
Consoomerism was a mistake
they already got the game for $15, why would they care?
I don't see why they would want that considering they already bought it
are they going to buy it again now for $35 somehow? seems kinda stupid
They want it because it doesn't affect them (they already bought it) and the developer will get more money.
"muh digital inflation"
Kwab
But how much I earn hasn't gone up with inflation at all...
maybe you should take that up with the commies who destroyed the value of your money, and not the guy who's just trying to keep up himself
>who destroyed the value of your money
that's not the problem, at least not yet, i just live under an extremely greedy and stupid government. either way, we're all fricked, we had a good run
sorry, anon, but we live in a capitalist society. I'm sure you understand.
>+ $15 for the expansion ;^)
this is the same person who will defend $15+ lootboxes and skins
kys
Sad zoom zoom doesn't know when expansions were good.
Don't care, already got it
and with a third world discount too 😉
include me in the screencap
Remember how this guy used to be based?
He's always been based. Makes SJWs and poorgays alike seethe.
I bought so many games during the early steam sales and the early to mid 2010s that I have more great and amazing games to play than I could finish in a life time, so I can probably just ignore new games forever with all of the bullshit they entail, including games I actually own being moronic like this and domina (although that was very funny to watch)
I'm really surprised they did that instead of just keeping it the same and continuing to never put it on sale and be happy with expansion pack money.
Considering especially that the expansion is already confirmed to be $30 too, not $15 like OP said.
This Black person has never put it on sale, he probably made more than most indiegays make on steam.
Well I was gonna just buy it anyways but now I think I'll pirate it instead. This is definitely a joke.
I don't play pixel indieshit but I appreciate this guy dabbing on steamies who wait 5 years to save 10 dollars
IT'S A SEVEN YEAR OLD GAME, THE PRICE DIMINISHES IT FRICKING DIMINISHES YOU israelite moronS
yesterday's price is not today's price
says who? The one who produces the good.
I pirated Factorio and had my fun with it already. Was going to buy it to support the devs, but this changed my mind. Don't support israeli practices.
Ok Moshe.
Eat shit israelite.
You never bought the game. Your opinion is irrelevant, israelite.
You were just looking for an excuse not to pay at all, like every israelite in this world does.
>You never bought the game. Your opinion is irrelevant, israelite.
>supports israelite practices
>calls others israelite
israelite.
I already bought the game. You didn't. I can say what I want.
>You didn't.
That's right. I pirated it and you seethe because it's in your israeliterat nature.
No you're just seeking validation and attention-whoring like every pirate would. You're a parasite, just like a israelite.
>You're a parasite, just like a israelite
>noooo don't try games before you buy them
>noooo don't adjust purchases to reflect your morals
Incredibly low IQ israelite. I thought you guys were supposed to be intelligent or something.
I bought the game already. It doesn't affect me.
You pirated the game and played it until you were satisfied. You never paid for the product and you don't intend to. Last (you).
>I-I was going to give them money, but now I won't because...I JUST WON'T OK!?
The devs also have a donation page. Pay them however much you think they deserve, but I know you won't do that either, israelite.
>and you don't intend to
>Last (you)
Says you, israelite. I had it in my cart on Steam until I saw this increase. Cope israelite.
>still $30
You were never going to buy it
If this weren't an indie game or Steam game Ganker would be having a meltdown over this and try to spin it into a huge overdramatic ordeal.
there is nothing a commie hates more than someone making a lot of money directly off his own personal labor
All these people too small brained to understand inflation holy moly
Damn that sucks
Enjoy your bitminer and lack of patches ;^)
Source: I made it the frick up
>v1.1.68
OH NONONONO AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAAHA
Oh no the extra features I am heckin missing out on
>I-I DIDN'T LE WANT THEM ANYWAY!1!!!!
KEK!
Can you install mods in the pirated version? I can't imagine playing vanilla factorio anymore.
You can but you have to jump through some hoops to find the mods because you obviously can't use the official repo
>jump through some hoops
there's a site that literally downloads them for you
Didn't know that exists now since I've owned this game for forever
holy shit what a king
They've incrementally been increasing the price of the game for some time.
They repeatedly said that if they feel the game is worth more than the price, they'll match that price. They won't do sales either. Sounds good to me really.
I wish all games cost 120 dollars and had Denuvo to gatekeep the third worlders.
>WHERE IS THE SALE
You just missed it. It was there for 7 years.
>Gankerirgins are unironically defending greedy devs and greedy corpos using inflation scare to increase prices
Nice counter culture you have there, boot licker.
It's his game. If he wants to add a black woman it's his prerogative.
You're the one greedy here, no?
>ugh I want to pay less for things
>therefore, HE is greedy
You're being greedy, anon.
This is exactly what corporations are doing right now. They raise prices and claim that it’s inflation or supply chain.
This is the kind of practice that is screwing us over
Eh. I was waiting for literally any sale at all, because I don't think it's appropriate to pay full price for a 3 year old game that had crowdfunding AND years of early access.
But now I'll pirate it or never play it, whatever.
inflation isn't real
my bills do not agree with you. i love being exploited like a medieval peasant by rich old people
Rent is due every 5th
of course they need more money morons
just seeing if I’m banned again
bump
Stop seething, crying and dilating, he's gonna increase the price anyway whether you like it or not
>ITT
Just pirate it or something, poorgays.
really great poliical cartoon 😀 i think i will post it on facebook for everyone to see haha
>posting anti-left content on facebook
>also, one that mocks autists
go ahead, good luck
bump
>calling their players engineers for playing a game
Lmao.
>calling people engineers for reading a book
What's worse than those fricking israelites is the Factoriodrones that defend them 24/7.
bump
>And that's a good thing
What happened to Ganker, they share the same opinion with a certain red color website nowadays....
>Ganker has always unanimously agreed game communities are better without the presence of normalgays and poor thirdworlders who primarily buy their games from FOMO impulse purchase sales
>Ganker has always unanimously agreed gatekeeping is at its best when it successfully keeps out those who complain about the gate
>anons have conniptions when a developer uses pricing to gatekeep normalgays and poor thirdworlders.
If you don't believe the dev is in the right then you are exactly the kind who the game is better off without.
5 dollars? make it 10
15 even
i don't care, i pirated your game already.
>it still costs $0 to torrent
yar har
Why do Gankertroons think we will side with them on this issue
>They are evil for deciding price of their product
You're poor, I don't care what poor people think
you came here in or after 2016
Pirates were gonna pirate it anyway.
The game is worth more than 70 dollar new releases, easily, 35 is still a steal.
>the game is so hecking worth more! raise the prices now!!!!
>y-yeah i already bought it for the current price so this won't affect me, how could you tell, hehe??
I bought it before Federal reserve printed few extra trillion dollars. My dollars paid were worth more than 30 dollars right now
>the game is so hecking worth more! raise the prices now!!!!
I never asked for the prices to be raised. You are wrong.
>y-yeah i already bought it for the current price so this won't affect me, how could you tell, hehe??
I bought it cheaper, actually. Wrong again.
Regardless, Factorio is one of the best games I've ever played, no contest.
Go ahead and pirate it if you think the price is unfair or whatever else. Make sure you play it though, it's fricking great.
To this day i have yet to understand why Ganker shits on any other studio pulling this israelite shit, yet they defend this shitty 2D game like rabid dogs.
What the frick is wrong with all of you.
I just think it's funny, especially since Gankertards for a long time have been complaining about the Factorio devs not doing sales (another form of israeli tricks).
What's with gigaisraeli devs INCREASING the price of a game many years after release? Pretty sure Rain World just did the same shit. Inflation makes literally fricking zero sense because the game already exists, so it's not like it's going to affect their costs or expenses. I might pirate this autism sim out of spite.
The price of digital existence has increased with inflation. It used to cost $0 for the game to be on Steam, now with inflation @10% it costs $0
It's the only game in the 10s that actually defined a new genre. That's a fact and your personal feefees about the game don't matter.
>inflation
I didn't know they were chopping down trees, mining ores, hiring mexicans to re-code and print physical copies of each unit, moving them by truck to Valve and personally uploading each copy to the server.
How unusual.
So you dont know what employees are?
Irrelevant for a product that already exists.
They bring out updates/fixes all the time
They are currently working on bringing the game to other devices
They are currently working on making an expansion to the game
how much is employee expenditure rising with inflation is the q nglnocap
Why are they increasing their employees pay? Do they recode a 7 year old game daily?
I guarantee they cut employees wages and told them it was due to inflation.
>you know, the internet bill isn't free guys
>inflation
>videogame
What is depreciation?
>muh memeflation
nuke amerigoys
The euro and yen are now weaker against the US dollar.
I'll just get the gog-games version (runs the same as paid)
>media everywhere are talking about inflation just as much as they talked about terrorists after 9/11
So it's all an excuse for this kind of shit huh
It still costs 0.
>adjustments for inflation
LMAO. More than 20$ for a game is a literal robbery and will be for another century or two. Then 25$ will become the upper limit. I paid like 15 for Factorio thanks to regional prices.
Expansion when?
>Expansion when
The longer time goes on, the higher expectations people have for the DLC. I wish they'd just give a real preview instead of just teasing us with a few little hints.
>There are still major sections of the gameplay being changed and adjusted, and if we tell you about them now, the information would quickly become outdated and inaccurate.
Reading between the lines they had to scrap a bunch of development and try to re-do it
To me it sounds like they're trying shit as they make the dlc and change/discard stuff.
kinda hard to make good DLC when they have to go against some of the FREE mods for the game
>go against some of the FREE mods for the game
Most of the mods just expand every step of the game into extremely autistic busywork. Try Bobs/Angels and you'll see how making a simple electronic circuit is a nightmare.
>we want to be transparent
what a bunch of shitheads
>The expansion will now cost $50 due to inflation.
>All those simps praising them for raising the price
Oh my god they're moronic
Based autist devs dabbing on poorgay 3rd worlders and tr*nnies
Bruh it's on gog-games. If you don't want to pay, don't pay.
>unemployed deplorables discussing geopolitics on a videogames board
b-but the deverino said the magic word first!!!
Is there a mechakoopa ability?
you vill own nothing
I pirated this game, played it for 100 hours, bought it and played another 300.
I will buy the expansion and I will play it for another few hundred hours. Seethe.
Well shit Black person I played this game even more than I thought, keep seething albeit
>One achievement
L M A O
There's no achievements with mods and I played enough vanilla before buying it. No idea how I got that one
>Trans-Factorio
wtf i thought this game was based?
>it's a troony game
Well most autists are trannies anyway.
Why are bootlickers pretending it's an ebic win when the game is extremely easy to pirate?
why are you pissing your panties over the price increase if you can just pirate anyway?
Chuds expect you to want Russia to take Ukraine because of inflation or something. Weird people.
what kind of a brainworms take is this
Chuds are obsessed with inflation because they think it's being caused by the Ukraine war.
As israeli as rim world devs
>never goes on discount
>price keeps going up
>blame it on inflation
lol
lmao
imagine paying for this when there's a free version
>last update 1 month ago
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
hi moron, can you guess when it received the last update?
>subhuman language
no comprendo?
>mental capacity so low it can't decipher 16/december/2022
sucks to be a moron
is everybody on this site from jungle america, woah
no i'm not brazilian, dumb amerimutt
I'm not american please don't fling your poo at me
It must go on special. I never pay full price and I checked my steam library and have it
nope, it's whole price history is a line that only went up as he only increases the price
The price only increased because it hit full release which is pretty standard for early access games. Either way the whole thing is a moot point. The game is worth more than the ticket price from how good it is and you will either buy it or not. Its not like they are trying to frick you on the price.
>Is the game still being patched or worked on?
If so i wouldnt mind
If not... frick that hooknosed rubbing hands shit.
Yes, it's even getting an expansion.
And its not jumping from 60 burgers. Yea i wouldnt mind if i was into it, people on /egg/ were pretty hardcore from what i remember, the few games that kept and maybe is still keeping that general alive.
so the expansion is included in the price of the game? or they are charging twice for it?
>or they are charging twice for it?
kek what do you think
good morning I hate fiat currency and reserve banking
Nooo you cant just make a game thats highly polished, 99.999999% bug free, extremely well optimized, with great mod support allowing for hundreds of hours of replayability and then charge me money for it this is literally 1945 please my Führer return from the dead to cleanse the world of this israeli evil I am being persecuted
>buying games at full price
>ever
>not using the wishlist to buy everything after it goes on sale for 75% off
Factorio is famous for never being on sale.
>time passes game depreciates
>price doesn't go down
>price increased instead
>inflation happened
>price hikes again
huh?
>>time passes game depreciates
how does it depreciate?
dev is a greedy opportunistic scumbag masquerading as "le quirky autist who is always le logical XD"
>>game depreciates
why
>>time passes game depreciates
How so?
when will zoomers on Ganker learn to pirate games
Shouldn't a games price go down with time anyway?
yeah but americ**ts like to print quadrillions of dollars every day to frick the whole world's economy
All this was just because of the globohomosexual wars in european lands instigated by americans.
Monster Hunter World has more devs working on it, gets discount and is still making big bucks.
Factorio doesn't has discount and is making even more big bucks.
BUT FACTORIO IS 100 PERCENT BUG FREE AND HAS ALOT OF UPDATES AND INFINITE REPLAYABILITY THAT JUSTIFY THE PRICE homosexual POORgay NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO BUY THE GAME YOU CAN PIRATE IT ANYTIME LMAO!
but hey people who complains are greedy, Michal Kovařík is not greedy, he is being generous for selling the game at such a dirt cheap price.
And he is a based bigot too, just like me and every anon in this thread, we must support him and buy more copies!
99% of people really wanting to play the game have bought it already. This is just some elaborate trolling and I love it.
I can't understand why ANYONE would be defending a 7 year old game increasing in price. It's fricking nonsensical, especially considering this shit never goes on sale. It's simply a israelite tactic nothing more.
>It's simply a israelite tactic
Well yeah, the dev is an open libertarian.
Old games decrease their price or go on 75% sales because they either are superseded by a new game or have 100+ bucks worth of DLC.
For example, Pathfinder Kingmaker is being sold for pennies because there's very little reason to play it when WOTR exists.
Factorio on the other hand has no replacement. It is still the definition of factory automation game.
Inb4 Satisfactory / DSP, those games are not even close to being a replacement for Factorio.
However I do think that the price of Factorio should drop when the expansion comes out, or it should be on a 25% sale or something.
Explain Stardew Valley's discount.
homosexual.
harvest moon/rune factory games exist
>factorio has no replacement
that is a very subjective opinion imo
I can say that stardew valley is unique and has no replacement because it is different compared to harvest moon or whatever game you wanna throw at me and please Stardew valley is a clone of those games, it doesn't come out before Harvest moon or rune factory.
No he's right. Stardew has older games that can match it but Factorio only has early access games that aren't finished yet.
Dyson Sphere chinks will save us
Concerned Ape literally just wants more people to play his game. Fricker gives out hundreds of keys every Christmas here
You could literally buy a mansion if you sold every key that ConcernedApe has given out on Ganker alone.
But the price of the game has not changed since its release 7 years ago. Doesn't that prove my point?
No-sale policty aside obviously, which almost nobody except for the Factorio devs believes in so strongly
>sale. It's simply a israelite tactic nothing more.
Yep, sales are.
ah yeah because production costs on this digital videogame from a decade ago have increased so he simply doesn't have any other choice lol
and as you know the average consumer's pocket isn't affected by inflation in the slightest so he better foot the bill for this poor developer
It's starting to feel pretty moral to pirate videogames, can't waste precious money on superfluous digital goods.
I am okay with this if the developers are not tax evading....
They didn't even release their tax returns and everyone on reddit are praising them for being transparent about it and this is why the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer
Not my problem kek
Not mine either
This is good, everyone should follow their no-sale policy, it will help to grow the videogame industry.
>muh inflation
What a israelite. Time to seed the game.
Peopoe forget the most scummy part, this game is almost seven years old. Imagine if Terraria also got a price increase after almost a decade.
Terraria would be continuing to get content updates instead of sputtering and dying. Sales and price reductions are an abandonment of a product to fish out a last few dollars.
I'm half fricking with you, but my point was that his statement was about whether the price would increase AT full release. "Will the price increase n years after full release?" was clearly not a question on anyone's mind and interpreting it to apply to that is just silly.
>"Will the price increase n years after full release?" was clearly not a question on anyone's mind and interpreting it to apply to that is just silly.
that's very true, other then autism I don't know why I saved that image anyway
I will never pay for low effort indie pixel graphics. If you can't bother spending more than an hour on your games visual representation then I can't bother spending money for it.
>finish game 3 years ago
>increase the price anyway
it has more content than most AAA 60$ games, people need to stop shitting their pants about it
also it's DRM free so if you're a poor Black person you can just grab it for free on any pirating website
35$ for an autism simulator. they should pay me to play this stuff. you could be working in real life on engineering shit and be paid several grands a month
the core audience is stem students too dumb for actual work
>all the bootlickers in the replies who want this guy to upcharge even more
The dev is a "cult of personality" type, isn't he?
Most people ITT already bought the game. Why should we care if he marks up the price?
I pirated the game, and I am not your so called third worlder you are having a crusade on, tourist-kun.
>pirated
begone loser.
Ganker is the land of the pirate, tourist~~~~~
La la la la sing a happy song~~~~
You go back okay the door is that way~~~~
>newfriend misinformation
Get a load of this moron
>2012
>cdpr butt licking
what a time
2012 was when we were getting so much dogshit you might get one game worth playing a year, and Witcher 2 was that game
Because it's a transparent money grab?
I'm not you.
>Because it's a transparent money grab?
Doesn't affect me, I don't care
You're so cool for not caring about a thing I do and being a contrarian who put on sunglasses and dabbed while making that post.
>You're so cool
Thanks, keep seething though
I'm not sure how to best describe this, but basically Factorio is a game for autistic people who find enjoyment in things working well.
When you build a shitty factory layout that can't be expanded and that is difficult to route resources through, you physically cringe
When you build a beautiful factory layout that scales well, that has optimal throughput, that is aesthetically pleasing and that can be copy pasted easily, you feel euphoric. You look at it and you think to yourself, yep that's a nice factory. And you copy paste it a few times and you marvel at the beauty of your own design.
This way of thinking or maybe rather way of feeling applies to your perception of the game itself.
When you see something like Oxygen Not Included having a shitty laggy UI, 10 fps in the mid game and piss and shit unfixed bugs that have been in the game for years, you phyiscally cringe
When you see Factorio in its magnificent bug-freeness, optimized performance, rich modding API and highly functional UI, you feel admiration for both the game itself and the developers who accomplished this feat
That is why some people are defensive over Factorio. It's not the personality of the devs themselves at all, they rarely interact with the community as far as I know. It's about the game itself, and how you perceive the devs based on the game that they created
imagine supporting this and being like these redditors https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/10gtz1b/factorio_price_increase_20230126/
This comment made me regret buying the game, I should have just stuck with the pirated version
I swear to god, some people here will argue anything just to have a small amount of human interaction
thanks biden
http://gog-games.com/game/factorio
2 years and trannies are still seething, to the point of grasping at straws like this. Frick you and your cancel culture lol
????????????????????????????????
>Commies are too moronic to understand this simple sentence 250 years later
>muh inflation
Maybe we should stop printing fake money, and go back to gold.
>economy gets dabbed on by speculators every other decade
Make speculation illegal for gold, problem solved.
we can't do that, big government said that things that put big government in check are bad for the people! same for guns!
Not even the rimworld dev is as israeli as these Black folk.
>increasing the price by $5 is more israeli than releasing modpacks for $20
nice try rimworld dev
Rimworld actually went on sale recently if you can believe it. Either way I will never buy either game unless they go 50% off.
Still not interested.
>$35 is a lot of money to people
Bro. My parents just cancelled their paper newspaper subscription. That shit cost $20 PER WEEK and they barely even read it.
>here's $35 for your cup of coffee
>what, I'm not paying that
>wow what are you poor
many such conversations
kinotorio is not a cup of coffee, however, It's a steak
as if a nice cup of joe can't rival a steak
close, but make that an inifitely deep cup of coffee
is it $35 because there was care put into making it throughout the entire process or because they got billy to dump a bunch of gold shavings at the last second
>food analogy
Stop being so autistic and you'll understand why analogies are useful.
What? How is inflation affecting them? The game was made in 2016, at 2016 levels of inflation.
Earn more money wagie, simple as, just one more $5/hour
Pirated the game, tried it for 2 hours, wasn't my flavor of autism.
Chad move, I wouldn't want poorgays playing my game either.
>it's on Gog
Easy DRM-Free download.
You can download it DRM free from their own website.
>inflation
>for a digital product
??????????
Marx was right
yeah so? the game is so good it should be worth infinite moneys anyways. stop being poor
Communism and Capitalism are god awful systems Black person.
define capitalism
>people who make and sell games don't have to pay more for everything once inflation hits because... IT JUST LIKE THAT OK??!!?
People ITT are really complaining about an Indie game being 35 dollars when there's wienersucking israeli companies selling games for 70 fricking dollars for BASE GAME. And then charge you an extra 30 dollars for season 1 pass with exclusive skins and cosmetics? FRICK. YOU!!!!!!
If you think this is truly the problem in gaming you're just a fricking mega corporation wiener sucker. Cough up 30 dollars to lick the balls and stroke the shaft please!!!
AAA kinos have a higher production cost than indieslops
Yeah because they're churning out unimportant shit like FRICKING COSMETICS from their RESOURCES!!!!!
>>AAA kinos
come on, you don't even believe the shit you're typing
I think games released after 2008 should cost less than $10 because they're all shit
>anyone that has autism would have bought this game already since it's been almost a decade
>anyone that hasn't bought it doesn't have autism or is unable to afford it
>anyone with autism and a single brain cell just pirates it
There is quite literally no reason to increase the price. Was it autism?
I bet it was.
>ITT: wube bootlickers
H-haha I would NEVER do such thing, I definitely would leave my source of income or salary go down as inflation rises!
I would do that shit in a heartbeat, I guess I'm salty everything is going up but my wage is the same.
don't matter, I pirate anyway.
t. person with one gorillion bought games on steam, gog, uplay and ea play. I pirate factorio exclusively because of the devs dumb "we don't give discounts" policy
>"we are selling the game based on what we feel it is worth"
>USD becomes less valuable
>game price goes up
so what's the problem exactly? nothing has changed. If you want to blame anyone, blame the fed for printing money
Meanwhile, Squad just announced it is now getting paid microtransaction cosmetics like emotes and skins.
Hey look the game is on sale until January 26th.
I don't get the backlash, if hyperinflation happened and $1 in 2020 was equivalent to $1 000 in 2025, would people still be upset that the game gets a price increase to $30 000?
>would people still be upset that the game gets a price increase to $30 000?
Yes. These people have no fricking idea how the economy works. They just want to yell at people because of things they know nothing about.
Master Duel is free to play.
Dota2 is free to play.
Apex Legend is free to play.
At least 2 of those games suck
factorio devs are some of the best in the industry.
$35 is nothing for this game, although I think I bought it for 20 back in the day.
>best devs
>no new content added in over a year
>DLC expansion constantly delayed
Meanwhile, Terraria devs are still pumping out content updates even after announcing end of life, and has never raised the price once
What kind of content updates?
Are you serious?
500 more recolours of functionally identical blocks.
yeah I'd rank terraria devs way over factorio, but factorio are still in the top tier even with their pricing.
I don't get it, if you're so assblasted just pirate?
already bought the game at original price, not my problem.
Just removed the game from my wishlist. I thought the game looked like shit and the gameplay was bad, but I wanted to buy it to support the rise of an indie dev.
I'm glad I never found the game on a decent sale otherwise I would have supported this scumbag.
Wishlist status: removed.
Game status: Told steam to ignore and hide it from my store.
The game never goes on sale, but you can imagine it costs $60 and has a $25 sale if you want (Factorio is better than any $60 game)
Is this an ironic baitpost? You are not supporting the rise of an indie dev if you buy a game that came out 5 years ago and was a commercial success.
And if you did want to support the devs without wanting to play the game, why wait for a sale?
Never pay more than 20$ for a game, bro.
That 20 dollars back then has inflated to 45.
And has the average salary increased accordingly?
20$, sneed it or feed it
stop asking stupid questions. inflation doesn't work like that, goyem. there's not enough money to increase your salary
>average salary
Why yes. The CEOs have increased their own salary high enough to drag the average up accordingly.
man imagine if nintendo or sony did this, the shitposting would never end
frick imagine activision or EA saying some shit like 'well inflation is a thing so we're raising the prices of all our old games', they would get eaten alive by gamers and the press
this is so shit, thank frick it's just an indie dev with 1 game
but that already happened, they raised their prices from 60 to 70
for new games, not games that they've been selling for half a decade
I'd say that's almost as bad as shitty remasters.
that's true, the worst thing is when they release remasters and remove the original versions too
wait, is piracy impossible now? what happened
factorio has denuvo now
from now on you get shot on sight if you pirate
troony game
The game got popular years before trannies did.