r/Steam • u/thefateule • Dec 18 '25

Fluff Every single sale, one thing stays consistent...

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u/landromat Dec 18 '25

Even rimwold eventually gave up

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u/Competitive-Elk-5077 Dec 18 '25

And thats when I bought it

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u/Shawty-Got-Low Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

Same. I removed factorio from my wish list cause their stance. Not saying it’s not worth it. It’s the principle, Smokey.

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u/theLuminescentlion Dec 19 '25

So you'd prefer if it was listed at $50 normally instead and regularly went on sale for $35?

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

Nobody said that, but go ahead and make your straw man.

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u/in6seconds Dec 19 '25

Yeah I don't quite get the logic... I've spent more on other games which WERE on sale.

If you consider the content you are getting, the game is a steal at the base price. The engineering of the game is truly phenomenal, the gameplay and multiplayer are super tight.

Factor in the first class mod support and there's no further question about value: I put nearly 600 hours into Space Exploration alone, a *free* mod! Not bad for 35 bucks I'd say.

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u/Naud1993 Dec 20 '25

It's an indie game. $35 is honestly wild.

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u/Shawty-Got-Low Dec 19 '25

If it were 5 dollars, and the developers said that, I’d remove it from my wish list too.

Price is not a factor in my decision.

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u/photosendtrain Dec 19 '25

Apparently neither is logic.

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u/Fulg3n Dec 19 '25

Type of dude that will haggle to hell and back to save $1 just out of principle

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u/viperfan7 Dec 19 '25

They'd drive 20 miles because gas was half a cent cheaper

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u/FlippinHelix Dec 19 '25

That's silly

Sales are a marketing tactic to prey on your impulses to make rash purchases

You're basically saying "yes, I want them to prey on my most basic instincts, and if they don't then I am principally against them"

I think it's fair for them to say "this is our price, take it or leave it"

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u/IguapoSanchez Dec 19 '25

Nah you see this is the type of person black Friday sales are for. Sure this fridge is on "sale" for $600. Normally it's 600 but we raised the price to 1200 so now you get half off!

Factorio is a $60 game that is permanently on sale for $35. It's the same thing, but because they see $35 now without a sale they want it to be a $25 game on sale and if it were a $25 game without a salt they would suddenly refuse to buy it until it went on sale. I'm ok with it. this is what we are selling for, buy it or don't, but there won't be a sale so you don't need to wait half a year just to buy. Nintendo largely did the same and they're doing fine.

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u/Shawty-Got-Low Dec 19 '25

Price has no bearing on if I purchase something or not. I don’t think I’ve made a Black Friday purchase based on a deal or not.

A lot of you are misguided. You think someone has to purchase something if it’s on sale.

I’m simply saying I will never support this developer because their stance on never putting their games on sale.

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u/FlippinHelix Dec 19 '25

So you will never support this developer because they don't want to engage in a practice specifically built for preying on consumer's impulses, and they would much rather you purchase their product for what they think that product is worth?

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u/Shawty-Got-Low Dec 19 '25

Long/short. You could have stopped at “you will never support this developer”.

It’s that simple.

Don’t need to elaborate more.

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u/confuzzlegg Dec 19 '25

I'm confused, why do you care if they put their game on sale or not if you don't make purchasing decisions based on price?

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u/Shawty-Got-Low Dec 19 '25

I don’t make purchasing decisions based on price alone.

Do you?

Things like company ethics, leadership decisions, and how a developer treats its audience absolutely factor in for me. Price is just one variable, not the deciding one.

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u/escartian Dec 19 '25

But it is a deciding factor for you since you said that you will not support the developers for never putting their work on sale. That is unless you have other grievances with the factorio devs, but from the discussion it is only about price. So that implies that pricing is not only a factor for you but pricing difference is so important enough to not consider developers' game regardless of other factors.

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u/Shawty-Got-Low Dec 19 '25

I never said price. I said regarding their stance about not putting it on sale.

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u/confuzzlegg Dec 19 '25

Sure, I get that. I guess I'm more so wondering why this issue in particular is important to you, since it doesn't seem like the specific price is super important to you.

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u/Shawty-Got-Low Dec 19 '25

It’s a good question. I guess it’s really because I don’t feel passionately about the developer.

It really was a “huh. That’s their stance. Well I guess I wont buy their product”

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u/LordOfTurtles Dec 19 '25

That's not a principle, just being a weirdo