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I showed it to a friend last night, first thing he said, 'hey this looks a bit like programming'.

Me being a programmer only saw a 2D version of Minecraft (my initial opinion), and I thought I wouldn't like it too much. Been playing the demo non stop. will buy it later tonight... AFTER work... :+)

p.s. I hope it keep in development for a few years so I can play this with my (now too) little one too.

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Factorio has been around in "open beta" for something like 4 years now (and I've been playing it for at least 3), so I suspect it'll be around a while longer.

However, even if the developers stopped updating the game, so long as the game runs on your PC, does it matter? We have people doing crazy things like effectively emulating DOS in Javascript so that you can run DOS programs in a browser window (see archive.org's DOS game section); somehow I don't think you need to worry about not being able to play it in a few years. It's all local by default, so you're not having to worry about someone taking the game servers offline either.

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