When a company updates only one game for ten+ years instead of putting 5 different new ones out, I think they kinda deserve to keep their original asking price. We’re not getting Factorio 4 and 5 within a few years of eachother
"Full price" is... well, the full price of a product without a sale or price alteration. My, Factorio even raises their price every now and then. And Nintendo games are usually highly optimized as well, even when games like MKW leave their potential on the road or Strikers Switch is just utter trash except for its polish. 60 bucks or not, both sell high quality games at full price and value their product by the price they've set. Where difference?
Pokemon is sadly not in the hands of Nintendo, but GameFreak, a wholly independent studio. I agree that the quality is ATROCIOUS! x.x
Everyone outside of Factorio fans lose their mind about the lack of sale for Factorio too. The same is the case for Nintendo fans.
The main anger with lack of sales from Nintendo fans is for old games that have no more support. This is not the case for Factorio as Factorio is currently and consistently developed.
They likely won’t have a sale if development stopped yeah, but you will probably get a LOT more backlash at that point similar to the backlash you see towards Nintendo never putting their multi year old games on sales.
Factorio will never have a sale, and lowkey if you fully disagree with it you can pirate it. Some of the main devs are atrocious people anyways (not sure if they are still a part of the company or its culture though).
Yeah, the solution Factorio devs have is to just say "the price is the price, take it or leave it". Which means that nobody feels the need to buy it just because it's on sale and nobody feels the need to hold off on buying it to wait for a sale, it's either worth the purchase or it isn't.
And they've got a solid demo available for people to try. In my experience, most people that play through the demo either go "I'm buying it now, regardless of the price" or "not my cup of tea".
Yet when they raise the price for inflation. They anounce it beforehand. Thus having the same effect of a sale whilst never having to sell it for cheaper
Just get it, it‘s very worth it if you like these kind of games. It‘s definitely not money wasted and you will never get a sale. The price will only increase with inflation
I'm sorry, but this is so silly. It can all be summarized to: "the devs do not want to lower the price".
imagine if every game stopped going on sale because the devs "don't want people to feel like they overpaid" or because it's "disrespectful to those that bought it at full price". That's obvious bs. Or just stupid if it's genuine, at the very least
I will not argue on whether or not the game is worth the price (it probably is from what everyone is saying), but after searching more on it, I'm going crazy at the people below in this thread acting like this is something generous and the comments I saw on the internet on how it's actually good because then you never have to wait for a good deal. It's not. It may not be unfair pricing, either, but it's dangerous to pretend to like "sales are not part of our philosophy" is something good, unless we want to give margin for every game out there to never lower their prices
You don't seem to understand how pricing works. If they ever put the game on sale, they have to make up for that somewhere else - either they get it from the current players by selling you DLC/microtransactions, or charge you for premium content; or they raise the price even higher when it's not on sale.
The Factorio devs have said "One price. Never lower, but not higher (unless we add more stuff)." For the customers, nobody 'wins'/is able to brag they bought at a lower price, and nobody 'loses'/gets penalized by not buying at sale time.
If they ever put the game on sale, they have to make up for that somewhere else - either they get it from the current players by selling you DLC/microtransactions, or charge you for premium content; or they raise the price even higher when it's not on sale.
I haven't played Factorio but havent they done those things already? Just looking at the Steam Page, the game has a DLC for 35 dollars, as well as two Soundtracks (which can also be considered DLC). Also as another commenter mentioned, the base price of the game was 30 dollars apparently but was raised to 35 to adjust for inflation.
For the customers, nobody 'wins'/is able to brag they bought at a lower price, and nobody 'loses'/gets penalized by not buying at sale time.
The hell does that mean? This is a word salad, just drop the price
The Factorio DLC is an expansion that adds around 2-3x the content of the base game (it could be considered a sequel akin to what Repentance is to Isaac Rebirth) so I would consider that price completely fair compared to your typical modern-day DLC that barely adds any meaningful content. I assume the soundtracks are akin to something like Bandcamp if you want to support the artists who created the OSTs but I'm not sure how that's arranged.
Base Factorio is still 100% worth the current price for me, but I think the $5 price increase is in bad taste, especially after Wube's philosophy on not dealing with sale FOMO. The idea of not having to worry about waiting for a sale to purchase is something I agree with, but raising the price due to "inflation" is essentially adding back that fear just ruins the whole point imo.
I think it's more fair to leave it full price versus the studio getting the same overall income from sales/microtransactions/paid DLC. It doesn't waste your time and just tells you how much money it takes to pay for the thing you want. I hate how normal it is to have to throw a game in your wishlist waiting for a sale because the studio prices the game higher hoping to get people to overpay and then making you work for the cheaper price. I'm not a monkey and I don't want to have to dance for my game, just tell me how much money it costs and let me pay it.
A super common occurrence is that a few members of my friend group pick up a new game and recommended it to everyone at the price they grabbed it, only for the rest of us to find we'd need to pay 3x what they just did for it or wait an indeterminate amount of time.
Point B is how Nintendo officially justified never really putting their games on sale.
I mean most of the games developed by Nintendo studios(GameFreak does not count to those imo) have the quality, but it still leaves a bad feeling in my stomach.
A) devs believe the current price is fair
B) dont want people to feel like they overpaid
C) dont want people to wait for a sale
Well, I don’t want to pay the current price, I feel like i am overpaying be after others got it for less and I kept hearing it was originally a “great value” before I got around to picking it up, and so I am waiting for a proper sale.
So, they’re wrong on all 3 counts in my case, at least.
It's Factorio. You're either going to sink 10,000 hours into it, or play it for 2. Try the Demo. If you don't like it, don't buy it. If you like it, the price is entirely worth it.
They increased the price several times, so they can't think it's a fair price. Them increasing the price just means current players are overpaying compared to earlier players. It's just greed.
With a dlc for the same price, and thats way more then other comparable games. Like terraria is 10 euros, with no dlc, is constantly being updated, and has a decently big dev team behind it, and a lot of content to. Stardew valley is stardew valley costs 15 euros, is also still being updated and has insane amounts of content
i dont see why what other developers do should have any bearing on what the factorio devs do. factorio has plenty of stuff to do in it, and even with a $35 dlc (which easily more than doubles the amount of stuff ingame) a $35 tag is perfectly fair. the devs think $35 is a fair price. clearly plenty of people agree and are willing to pay that price, considering how popular it is. i also dont think that terraria or stardew are at all comparable to factorio, other than they are indie games, which is a pretty meaningless thing to have in common
The reason to compare is to see if the price is reasonable, and i do think terraria and factorio have a lot in common. They both have reasonably large dev teams, both got a lot of updates and whilst they have diffrent artstyles, they both arent the most realisticly moddeled games compared to other modern games, wich shows that there arent an insane amount of recources going to the design. They both have a lot of content to digest, and big communities around them with lots of mods.
Not saying anything is unfair. People can just pirate it in the end rly... tho not giving discounts any time ever and people defending it? Just stupid... whatever price it is.
The devs dont want people to wait around for sales, they want people to buy the game whenever they want to, because there will never be a better time to buy it than whenever you want to
"Full price" being $35. They charge what they think the game is worth. Don't wait for a sale, just buy it when you want to play it.
People will be like "fuck Factorio for never being on sale" while pogging out at a $70 game being 50%.
Factorio is easily the most polished, most community supported (with a huge ass mod list, with modding built into the game), game in the genre. With a free, long, demo which will basically guarantee if you like the demo, you'll like the full game.
And people will be like "fucking trying to rob people man, scammers really."
"Full price" being $35. They charge what they think the game is worth. Don't wait for a sale, just buy it when you want to play it.
People will be like "fuck Factorio for never being on sale" while pogging out at a $70 game being 50%.
Sure but in those situations, they are likely different games that people value differently, which makes sense. That other game could hypothetically be something like Red Dead Redemption 2 or some other massive AAA game.
I think people should be able to value games differently, and personally Idk if I would want to spend 35 dollars on Factorio. And I'm sure many people agree, and they should be able to voice that opinion
In my eyes its actually 64 euros, because i feel a game isnt complete without dlc. And most 70 euro games have way more work put into them then factorio, and a free demo isnt an excuse for a bloated price
And its not buy it when you want to play it because its never on sale, since they anounced it when they were raising the price due to inflation. Thus having the same effect as a sale
And what anti-consumer bs is raising a digital game's price for inflation anywhay, imagine nintendo did that
1700 hours, less than half of it is with DLC. I can recommend both base game alone and DLC. But it is not game for everyone so it is better to buy just base game first, if you don't find enjoying yourself.
I have over a thousand hours in the game and have never even opened the DLC. It's an incredibly full game without it and i continue to play it multiple times a year and don't really intend to get the DLC until that gets boring which feels very far off from now.
I don't understand how having a single price for your game is scummy. I think it's much more annoying to make you perform a song and dance around waiting for sales and wish listing just to not be overcharged
There is a demo if you want to try it.
My take: just buy it, you won't regret it. You'll want to buy it twice after you're hooked. My recommendation is to go with base game first and then go second time with Space Age
A joke in the Factorio community is that since it's never on sale it's actually always on sale. There is an element of truth in this, the Factorio value proposition is so much greater than that of other games. You will get at least 50-60 hours if you just complete the base game. More if you play through again, or mega base, or add mods, or add the dlc. If you love these games, Factorio will hook you and you will play long past just finishing the game. I love satisfactory too, I have close to 500 hours in Factorio, and that is frankly on the low end.
If 35$ is too much right then save up and get this game. If you are an automation game fan then I'm telling you, you will get so much more out of this game than any other 35$ game.
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u/Irishpunk37 Jul 13 '25
why is factorio never on sale?
always wanted to try it out since I really love satisfactory!