Perhaps even worse: Factorio has never gone on sale. They are very strongly against the idea of sales. Which like... Fine, but game value depreciates so you should at least drop the price over time. Not the case- in fact they INCREASED the price from $30 to $35 in 2023. The game came out in 2020. It's now a 5 year old 2D indie game listed at $35. Can I afford that? Yes. Am I going to buy it? No.

[–] fuckyoukeith@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (6 children)

What do you mean that the dev is publicly a shithead? Genuinely curious because I’ve mostly only seen positive information about them

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

A couple of different controversies. He has posts on Reddit (that have since been deleted, but you can find them archived) talking about how student-teacher sexual relationships can often be consensual.

The more famous controversy is this one. Which is hard to summarize other than him being a general asshole to fans, and while he didn't really say anything too terrible he uses a lot of red-flag language talking about "cancel culture" and "sjw's" which, in my experience, is only used unirlnically by shitty people.

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml -2 points 5 days ago

This really raises a lot of questions about Factorio's story and worldbuilding 😔

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