What happend to the price?

[bjojojon]

Bought the game while it was in early acsess. Was planning to buy the game to my wife so we can play it together. Then I saw the price. Did it recently go up or something? I know you can get lots of hours out of this game but this is just greed at this point. Gonna pass for now i guess...

[ChillCore]

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=104976

also see 'search' and a bunch of locked topics (when scrolling back here) for more detailed discussions ... at this point all that needed to be said and discussed has been ...

you go for greed as being the reason? ... you do you ;)

[Hurkyl]

Originally posted by bjojojon:

Bought the game while it was in early acsess. Was planning to buy the game to my wife so we can play it together. Then I saw the price. Did it recently go up or something? I know you can get lots of hours out of this game but this is just greed at this point. Gonna pass for now i guess...

Price went up a couple times during early access as the game was nearing completion, ending in $30 USD in 2018, then adjusted for inflation very recently to $35.

Regional prices have been adjusted one or two more times than that, as Steam recommendations have changed significantly since 2018, and the numerical value has had large swings in some currencies because of that.

[brian_va]

gaming with your wife isn't worth an additional 5 USD or whatever the increase was in euros?

[bjojojon]

Originally posted by brian_va:

gaming with your wife isn't worth an additional 5 USD or whatever the increase was in euros?

price should go down after being out for a while. not up. i get it that it goes up after it has gone out of EA. But This high increase is just wierd and not seen it for any other games. its 40 dollar in my country. There are so many other games you can buy instead on sale for the same price and get more hours out of them than this. So thats what i will do.

[bjojojon]

Originally posted by ChillCore:

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=104976

also see 'search' and a bunch of locked topics (when scrolling back here) for more detailed discussions ... at this point all that needed to be said and discussed has been ...

you go for greed as being the reason? ... you do you ;)

100% greed when price goes up by 25% AFTER release. No even EA or ubisoft does that. I love the game but that is just way too much.

[Galileus]

Why do we need another one if these?

100% impotent and cheap, because hey, both sides can play "clueless and full of accusations". Yes, you have no insight, but you dislike something, so the other people are evil. This time in the flavour of price rise.

But hey, you have tons of broken, MTX filled EA and Ubisoft games to play instead of the greedy, unethical Factorio. If only it could do better, like the noteworthy companies you seem to prefer! You could even grab a mobile game or two, these are usually free and allow you to pay money to not play them. Superb offer, since they never rise prices... of the game, that is, power creep and hidden costs are still there, but that's fine.

Sigh.

[Alex]

The've been very transparent in this instance. Can't tell why you bother about this at all. The game wont ever be on sale. The game is cheap enough compared with what you get and compared to other games, even considering Factorio clones. It really is a masterpiece. And their policy is flawless and has been perfect.

Better this than buying AAA products full of fan-milking crap. And this one indie game is a 10/10 compared with any other you could think off.

[Khaylain]

Originally posted by bjojojon:

Originally posted by brian_va:

gaming with your wife isn't worth an additional 5 USD or whatever the increase was in euros?

price should go down after being out for a while. not up. i get it that it goes up after it has gone out of EA. But This high increase is just wierd(sic) and not seen it for any other games. its 40 dollar in my country. There are so many other games you can buy instead on sale for the same price and get more hours out of them than this. So thats(sic) what i will do.

As always; why should the price go down after being out for a while?
There are no other games that fill the exact niche of Factorio. Dyson Sphere Program has taken inspiration from Factorio and is an alternative for people that don't enjoy Factorio that much (they can try the demo to see if it is), but it's not a direct competitor to Factorio. Satisfactory is another game that has taken inspiration from Factorio, but the gameplay is very different and ends up being frustrating for a lot of people that enjoy Factorio immensely.

Your money becomes worth less with time (this is a feature of most current economic models) and as such it makes logical sense that prices should go up with time, not down. Yes, it makes our psychology feel like it's a bad thing to watch prices go up, but the actual value exchanged for the goods and services ends up staying close to the same for the most part.

Use an inflation calculator to see what the money you spent on the game when you bought it would end up being today. Use your own country for the calculator.

[Tat011]

I have a hard time believing you're arguing in good faith here considering you ignored the hundreds of threads complaining about this and made yet another one.
No one cares that you don't want to pay 35$

Originally posted by bjojojon:

This high increase is just wierd and not seen it for any other games.

exept for all the games that do, like how AAA has moved to 70$ and a lot of games that don't avoid it by releasing paid dlc.

Originally posted by bjojojon:

its 40 dollar in my country. There are so many other games you can buy instead on sale for the same price and get more hours out of them than this. So thats what i will do.

Then why are you here? Just to dogpile on the devs?

[ShutEye_DK]

OP go use the search function. Please :)

[Andeddu]

It’s called inflation. You should know what inflation means by now. Don’t blame the devs, blame your government for inflating your currency.

[Kiloton]

This is first time I've seen the price of a released game retroactively raised because of inflation. Kind of flies in the face of their anti-greed rhetoric. At it's current price point, I can't convince anyone in my circle to make room in their budgets for this game. They went with Satisfactory instead.

[bjojojon]

Originally posted by Kiloton:

This is first time I've seen the price of a released game retroactively raised because of inflation. Kind of flies in the face of their anti-greed rhetoric. At it's current price point, I can't convince anyone in my circle to make room in their budgets for this game.

i have been trying to get some friends into the game aswell. but then they see the pixel-ish graphics and the price and just nope out of the store. i understand the price increase but how many will not buy it because of it? i think they will lose money because of all of the people skipping. most people who care about the game and like this kind of game has allready bought it and probably got it while it was in EA. that price will be a hard pass for many. this is not a AAA game. but it got the AAA price.

[Chindraba]

Originally posted by bjojojon:

i have been trying to get some friends into the game aswell. but then they see the pixel-ish graphics and the price and just nope out of the store.

Strange how often I see the pixel-ish thing mentioned, along with other variations on the graphics. On my monitors, cheap HD(-ish) (1900x1080 and 1920x1200) that they are and driven by a less-than-top-flight GPU, GTX 1050, on an ancient CPU (AND FX-8300) in a Linux box, I don't see any artifacts of significance, if at all, at anything less than 2x zoom. Perhaps for gamers with mega-buck powerhouse systems pumping out 4K graphics onto metre-wide wall-spanning monitor grids there might be something to notice.

Still, for $35 (USD) what can one really expect? It's a game, not the Mona Lisa. The graphics are worse in my office products than they are in the game.

Originally posted by bjojojon:

this is not a AAA game. but it got the AAA price.

Perhaps Factorio should be AAA rated. It seems to have better performance than most of them as well as much longer play - both in one game and in multiple playthroughs. Every once in a while, mostly after seeing some comparisons in here, I peek at vginsights. Factorio is always in the top 0.2%, or better, across the board.

Perhaps the current crop of AAA title producers ought to strive to be as worthy of gamer investment as Factorio.

Perhaps I think AAA has a meaning which is also NSFW, and I'm glad that indie studios capable of something as nice as Factorio are able to remain out of the clutches of said AAA names.

[desertpunk3912]

Another person farming awards by complaining about the price