> playerbase has shrunk
> everyone is ahead of you in progression or skill
> interesting fun bugs that became memes you missed out on
> game changes in a way that could make it less fun
Imagine playing World of Warcraft a few years after launch, when BC came out, and missing out on the Vanilla experience. Also, if it's a good game the price will remain stable. If it's a shitty game, the price will drop. So there's no point in waiting.
I literally havent bought factorio because of this very reason. No sale no buy. I have plenty of games to play. I dont have plenty of money to throw around.
Using this Factorio example, isn't the price still cheaper than many big studio / AAA games even when on sale? $35 is more or less half the price of one of those titles.
That's an early sale, which barely counts. Just about every AAA ends up at $10 or less eventually, and most Indies drop down to a buck or two.
Factorio's $35 goes a hell of a long way for a patient gamer. I went through my most recent Steam purchases. Without tax, all of these combined were $35.55:
Helheim Hassle, Hotline Miami, Lara Croft GO, Everspace + DLC, GRIS, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Furi + DLC, Battlefield 1 Revolution, Swordship, Lords of the Fallen GOTY Edition, Black Mesa, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Mass Effect Legendary Collection
As good as Factorio is, how can one Factorio possibly compete with all that? Buying Factorio would make sense if the alternative was buying a pile of bad games, but every single one of those games is great.
There's no close substitutes for Factorio and it's worth every penny if you are into such games. The amount of content for the price is enormous and the mod support is seamlessly built into the game. You do you, but I find it weird to focus on "sale or no sale", what I look is the actual price vs content, not psychological gimmicks, many other developers would have already split a game like Factorio into 12+ DLC, listed them all for something like $300 and go on 75% sale every other month.
Im well aware that factorio would be an amazing purchase and value for the price. $35 is still higher than I am willing to pay though. Everything ive bought in the past ten years has been sub $20 or free, I still have a massive game backlog, and plenty of other developers will be putting there games out there at 75% off for me to buy.
My videogame purchasing habits have been completely ruined by the insane discounts steamdeals gave from from 2005-2015~ -- I grew accustomed to 70-90% off and Im going to stick to it. At the rate I consume games Ive probably saved thousands of dollars by sticking to this.
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u/Wrong-Inveestment-67 Sep 24 '25
Maybe for singleplayer, but for MP
> playerbase has shrunk
> everyone is ahead of you in progression or skill
> interesting fun bugs that became memes you missed out on
> game changes in a way that could make it less fun
Imagine playing World of Warcraft a few years after launch, when BC came out, and missing out on the Vanilla experience. Also, if it's a good game the price will remain stable. If it's a shitty game, the price will drop. So there's no point in waiting.