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Heads up, the Factorio team posted that there will be a 50% price increase coming on April 16th. They have stated that this game will never go on sale, so if you want it, buy it now.


https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/016-price-change
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Reynard_Muldrake: Heads up, the Factorio team posted that there will be a 50% price increase coming on April 16th. They have stated that this game will never go on sale, so if you want it, buy it now.

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/016-price-change
That alone makes me not want to buy the game. It takes huge balls to increase the price that much on a game that isn't even a 1.0 release.

The no sale policy is also kind of a fuck you to the player base as well.
I look forward to trying the game out, but i have a hard limit of $20 for games.

Though i'd much prefer it's closer to $5.

I have too many games already to worry about paying full price for a game anymore.
Steam has a demo but I don't see it on Gog.
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Strijkbout: Steam has a demo but I don't see it on Gog.
https://www.factorio.com/download-demo
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Strijkbout: Steam has a demo but I don't see it on Gog.
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InkPanther: https://www.factorio.com/download-demo
... that demo is a LOT bigger than it looks. Fills a whole CD...
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rtcvb32: ... that demo is a LOT bigger than it looks. Fills a whole CD...
That's a unit of measurement I haven't seen in a while.
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rtcvb32: I look forward to trying the game out, but i have a hard limit of $20 for games.

Though i'd much prefer it's closer to $5.

I have too many games already to worry about paying full price for a game anymore.
As someone who actually owns Factorio, I'm a little shocked at this price increase. Factorio has a lot of things, but I don't think it's a 30 dollar game at all. Actually, I feel it falls more into the 20 dollar bucket neatly.
It is admirable if they have principles (like not going to sales), but I still don't feel like paying 20€ for a genre that normally isn't among my favorite ones.

I am not surprised of the price increase, haven't this happened with some other games as well which exit the in-dev status and become real games?

I kinda like the no-sales approach as many publishers seem to push the default price so high because they expect most will buy only on sales anyway. And I presume the default price of Factorio may come down at some point as well.

Anyway, it is just one game. It is fine if I never buy it. We will see about that.
Post edited April 14, 2018 by timppu
It does have raving reviews but since I did not enjoy similar games for more than ten minutes, I guess it is not for me.

Someone I know says:

BUY IT NOW, if it is your kind of game!
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Reynard_Muldrake: Heads up, the Factorio team posted that there will be a 50% price increase coming on April 16th. They have stated that this game will never go on sale, so if you want it, buy it now.

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/016-price-change
Will it now be called factorio enhanced?
The Long Dark did the same after it got out of early access. Is this a usual tactic?
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greeklover: Is this a usual tactic?
See it as getting a discount for beta testing the game. We Happy Few also increased its price and I think there are/were more.
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greeklover: The Long Dark did the same after it got out of early access. Is this a usual tactic?
Starbound if I recall did this too, and Minecraft started that whole idea.
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Reynard_Muldrake: Heads up, the Factorio team posted that there will be a 50% price increase coming on April 16th. They have stated that this game will never go on sale, so if you want it, buy it now.

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/016-price-change
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hedwards: That alone makes me not want to buy the game. It takes huge balls to increase the price that much on a game that isn't even a 1.0 release.
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"the 0.17 which will probably become 1.0 version"
first line in the news post. the price increase is due to it leaving early access.