Paradox games do this too
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What’s a paradox game? I assume that’s some sort of studio?
Yeah, Paradox Interactive makes a lot of games, mainly Grand Strategy Games that attempt to simulate (alt) history. Crusader Kings is medieval, Hearts of Iron is WW2, etc. It's a bit like Civilization on steroids with a daunting learning curve.
The main Factorio dev is pretty publicly a shithead.
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.
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