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Comment by nindalf | Hacker News Reader

I paid $30 for 90 hours of entertainment. That's how long it took to finish one game with my friends. You'll have a hard time convincing anyone that $0.33/hour isn't amazing value for entertainment.

Whatever they price their expansion at, it'll be worth the money.

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The number of hours I have in this game is measured in thousands. And the first digit is not a 1. $30 was a steal.

So was $15. I tried out and bought the game before its v1.0 release and even then the game was exceptionally stable and polished.

How? Do you just leave the game running 24/7 even when you're not actively playing?

What do you even do? I only have 50 hours in Factorio. After I launched my rocket, I didn't know what to do next and just kinda stopped playing.

After I got all the achievements I started playing some mod packs. About a year ago I found a nice discord group that does a new map roughly every month. It’s full of mods and different things. Yes it’s still factorio but we have a pretty small group of dedicated players who enjoy hanging out online with each other and factorio is how we choose to do it.

The overhaul mod packs can pretty drastically change the game experience. It scratches the programming itch while being a break from actual programming.

I’m sure the pandemic added a multiplier to those hours that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise. But I’m quite enjoying it.

The game only really begins once you launch your first rocket. There is so much gameplay hidden in trying to improve the productivity of the initial factory. Playing with tough aliens makes it even more challenging/satisfying.

The true price of most entertainment tends to be its opportunity cost (which can still be low)

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