is the game getting discount sometimes?

[Rich094]

Title, I am interested in buying but I haven't seen it being at a discounted price yet, should I just buy?

[brian_va]

There won't be, there's a pinned topic about it if you're interested in the reasoning. There is a free demo

[MetalSpaceDust]

See pinned post. NO discount ever.

[Rich094]

Originally posted by MetalSpaceDust:

See pinned post. NO discount ever.

oh sh!t it was right under my eyes, thanks for the info!

[Rich094]

Originally posted by brian_va:

There won't be, there's a pinned topic about it if you're interested in the reasoning. There is a free demo

thank you, appreciate

[Fel]

It was also an information they put on the store page.

Outside of putting a game in your wishlist to be alerted when it goes on sale (useless in this case but usefull for many other games), you can also visit steamDB to see the price history, which includes sales and the various regional prices:
https://steamdb.info/app/427520/

[Drizzt]

wow you just went straight for the purchase once you got the info

guessing you really liked the demo? :-)

it was that way with me back in 2016 - played the demo, discovered there were no discounts planned - and had to come home from work early the next day to buy it, because i could not concentrate otherwise lol

was the first game i ever bought on Steam without a discount (was cheaper at the time, but was still more than i generally spent on a single game) - and i never regretted it - is one of the best and most polished games i have ever played - from devs that clearly take pride in their work - and hit a niche with the perfect product - kind of how Minecraft did back in the day

anyway - hope you get good value

i'm up to 2500+ hours

and many people are well into the thousands (a few in the tens of thousands lol)

and many pushing up towards their first thousand

so chances are good :-)

also - as an example of the trust i have in this dev's ability to deliver incredible value - i am very excited to be offered the opportunity to by the Expansion for this game at the end of this year - for which i will likely be paying almost double what i paid for the original - and i will be paying them that money with a smile on my face :-)

and FYI - when that Expansion is released, the current game that you now own will be getting a massive free upgrade - with a whole bunch of feature upgrades and improvements - and maybe even some new features - is gonna be great :-)

[Chindraba]

Originally posted by Drizzt:

and FYI - when that Expansion is released, the current game that you now own will be getting a massive free upgrade - with a whole bunch of feature upgrades and improvements - and maybe even some new features - is gonna be great :-)

Unless there are some massive changes between current plans and final release, you can be sure that new features for the non-expansion game is not a "maybe," but is a fact.

I'm not sure if you're still avoiding spoilers or not, so I'll give you the out, while filling in some of the new features for everyone else, which includes at least 1 brand new thing to build, aka new content.

Some of the new features current games will get for free are:

• The selector combinator - a new entity to build
  
• Forever free red and green wires as well as the copper wire used to connect poles. (The copper cable, ingredient in other recipes will still not be free.)
  
• Force building where existing things are changed to make the new build work - adding undergrounds to belts to allow building something where the belts are, for example
  
• The ability to mine, or undo, landfill placement
  
• The ability to have bots add, remove, and change modules in machines
  
• The ability to change the settings in combinators and machines in map view without needing to make a temporary blueprint to do it.
  
• The filter inserter (purple) and stack filter inserter (white) are gone. Instead all inserters will have filters, even the lowly burner inserter. [Of course the stack inserter (green) is also getting a name change, but that's not a new "feature" just a change]
  
• The ability to connect assemblers to the circuit network, change their recipe using the circuits and read more information about the machine as well.

I may have not listed someone's favorite, and I wasn't trying to list everything. I just tried to cover a few of the high points in my anticipation. I also didn't include the smarter bots, which you already read about so no need to hide that.

Yes, the 2.0 update to the non-expansion game is going to be almost as good as new presents under the Yule tree. For free! And, we're only half-way through the wait. No clue what else might be added in the next few months.

[ReBootXD]

Devs said no discounts

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by Chindraba:

I'm not sure if you're still avoiding spoilers or not, so I'll give you the out,

thanks :-)

yeah i was pretty sure there were some new features - but a lot of things are upgrades, changes or additions to existing features - and i suspect many can be considered new features or feature upgrades

either way i don't need to nitpick - even if it is all upgrades i will be fully happy lol - not sure what "new" feature i might want - i took a peek - and i consider being able to reverse landfill to be an upgrade to the landfill feature lol ;-)

anyway - thanks for providing the full and accurate details

i am still trying to be at least a little surprised :-)

and so excited to have my trains going over other trains (with the Expansion) - proper cloverleaf junctions - yay :-)

[IC3D_ZOMBIE]

Originally posted by Rich094:

Title, I am interested in buying but I haven't seen it being at a discounted price yet, should I just buy?

Humble choice gives you a discount on the game

[The Spacecop42]

No, but it might become more expensive

[Hurkyl]

Originally posted by IC3D_ZOMBIE:

Originally posted by Rich094:

Title, I am interested in buying but I haven't seen it being at a discounted price yet, should I just buy?

Humble choice gives you a discount on the game

Yes, but that's not a Factorio thing, that's a Humble thing: you sign up for their subscription service and they'll knock a few bucks off of some of your purchases.

[Ferox_Stormdragon]

ffs not another one, does no-one read the pinned posts or use the search function?

[Torgonius]

Originally posted by tcmitchell957:

ffs not another one, does no-one read the pinned posts or use the search function?

As one of the safety managers at a site where I used to work said: "Words are for pretty, not for reading."

[ShutEye_DK]

Originally posted by Drizzt:

wow you just went straight for the purchase once you got the info
(...)

Haven't seen him since :D