MULTIVERSEFactorio is 50% off on Steam currently
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This is a special kind of evil
I don’t do computer games. Could you explain me what is the deal with this discounted game?
The developer is ideologically against sales, because they believe it’s disrespectful to people who have already bought the game. Factorio has never been on sale, and will (probably) never go on sale
Oh, that sounds principled
I could have sworn it went on sale exactly once specifically to raise funds for something, but I can’t remember what. I assume for Ukraine, but I’m not seeing anything in their steamdb price change history, anything from their website, or any talk about a one time sale.
Doesn’t show as on sale for me. Maybe region specific?
Edit: Oh screw you!
I was about to say, Factorio is known for never being on sale, wow, what a day… A day… Huh. What day is it. Dangit.
same here, no sale in Canada
PS: D’uh… fell for it
Imagine if the dev actually did this. They’d probably make millions just from those that added it to their wishlist hoping it’ll go on sale someday and completely forgot about it. I know because I was one if those dudes but eventually caved after I found out it’ll never go on sale.
I have fifty steam accounts that own one copy of Factorio each and I’m just waiting to cash in.
I thought I was ruined at first.
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Sorry bud either you understand investing or you don’t.
But who would buy an entire steam account just for factorio at the normal price, you could just buy it now on the steam store
You bring a rationality that is not appreciated in investing circles!
(The OP is known for joking 90% of the time, if you read their account name, just disregard the opinion and assume the opposite)
The thing is it may get more expensive it already did
Oh, ok, that would still be weird but ok
ps: I understood from another comment that this was meant to be a joke
I was as well. Put off buying it for years, as I am the patient gamer who waits for deals. I caved after playing Satisfactory and still having the itch to build factories
They have a demo available for free, which was enough to let me know I’m too dumb for the game.
If I have to think a lot to play the game then I’m out. I get paid for that shit.
In my opinion you really don’t have to think to do quite a bit of stuff and enjoy yourself in Factorio. I think if you want to think about what you’re doing you can figure out ratios, making nice blueprints, building circuits, and all sorts but I have a few friends who had hundreds of hours of fun in the game never once considering anything like “what would I need to get a full blue belt of green science?”
The anti-thinking approach would be “I need red science to get this tech, so I’ll set up machines for red science”, “my iron gears going into red science aren’t keeping up so I’ll build more iron gear assemblers”, “my copper going into red science isn’t keeping up so I’ll build more furnaces”, “I have more red science than my labs can use so I’ll build more labs”, etc.
Personally, I don’t mind seeing the exact production numbers and doing a little math to figure out exact numbers of assemblers necessary, but it’s just as valid to build more X assemblers until the X belt is full, then when X’s ingredients start to run out you can repeat that process for its ingredients.
I had it in my wishlist for years. I wasn’t exactly waiting for a discount, I was just playing other games. I finally bought it a month ago and already spent more than 100 hours. The game is addictive.
That’s me, still haven’t bought it. I got other games to play anyway so oh well!
Mod Note : T’was a nice april fool matey !
Is this only in the EU? On my end in the US, it’s still full price.
Edit: My dumbass forgot it was April Fool’s Day. Ignore this comment.
check todays date.
Damn, I’ve gotten to a point in my life that I forget that April Fool’s Day exist.
It’s not the point in your life, it’s just the world we currently live in. Every day could be April Fools as far as I can tell.
This was the best April fools prank I’ve seen today
lol
lmao, even
I was upset for a second that I finally bought it a month ago 😅
Factorio costs about $20 and One Thousand Hours of your life.
I thought it was $35?
Idk what the price is in I.C.E. eagle hot dogs, be glad I didn’t just put the price in pesos
Hey I laughed
Depends on which dollar we’re talking about. Zimbabwean?
Yeah its the time cost I dont want to pay…
It’s still funny to me the one time @Kolanaki@yiffit.net / @Kolanaki@pawb.social bought a game, got disappointed, then proceeded to spend time milking it dry to get his money’s worth/points rewards.
Man, fuck Dragon’s Dogma 2!
Lol tell the story again
Yeah, just suffering to get his moneys worth I guess. :)
Thousand hours, on the first run.
That’s really funny but also fuck you
maybe it’s a cultural thing, but this isn’t funny in my region
Trust me, the laughter comes from a place of pain 🥲
ah well now i get it
Maybe not but your comment fucking was lmao
Just curiosity, which region on the globe is that?
the one where we don’t have fun
ah yes, the good ol’ april fools
Sooo, the end is near?
Edit: OH COME ON
You nasty piece of 🤬 …well played, good sir, well played.
I don’t do drugs though.
Maybe there is a Hell, OP. (Reminded me to wishlist it on GOG, though.)
You got me, I thought this was going to be drama because the Factorio devs said the price will only increase with time.
The true cost of the game is much higher though.
My one year sober badge, to be more specific.
…here we go again.
Well done lol
Mods, send this man back to the Reddit he came from
I have no problem admitting that, it is indeed a repost from Reddit. But it’s also the only April fools that I found genuinly funny, and since I didn’t see it here I wanted to spread the joy :D
I thought about creditting it, but that’d kind of ruin the joke, plus I don’t really care about creditting Reddit anyway.
Sarcasm: As a former Reddittor, you are in every right to not credit.
Truth: Real. Peace to you today bro.
thanks for reminding me to wishlist it on gog!
god damnit you got me
Hahaaaaa that’s an April fool’s for the true believers.
Isn’t 100% off on fitgirl?
you marvelous bastard i love you. that was brilliant. i want to punch you through the face and buy you coffee and maybe kiss you i’m not sure I am having emotions i am going to go play final fantasy and settle down. you toyed with my emotions masterfully how dare you.
I checked anyways just to be sure 😔
Shiiit. Well I’ve fought it off for this long…
If you were sorely hit by the april fool, and urgently need a bad factory game to fill in the desire, Arknights: Endfield is a F2P gacha game that uses factory-building for a lot of its progression system (it is also a generic 4-man combat game)
Mindustry is a industrial based tower defense with RTS elements. It’s quite addictive. It’s $10 on steam or free on itch.io
Mindustry is also FOSS, right?
I do believe so, yes.
wait has it always been that much? I feel like I didn’t pay that much back when I bought it years ago.
They increased the price a couple times for various reasons
And I’m just here having gotten them game for free, tried it (like really gave it a chance) and didn’t click with it. I wish I could gift it somehow, I’d be so happy to give it to someone who yearns for it but can’t afford it.
Did you get to trains, thats a lot of fun.
Shame that isn’t real, I’d buy it at that price, but I won’t buy a game that refuses to go on sale out of principle.
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Factorio is 100% off when you torrent it.