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I was really put off by the pricing fiasco. Was that unreasonable?

There is no pricing fiasco. It was respecting their customers. If "pricing fiasco" is how you describe respecting your customers, than yes, you are being unreasonable.

For those unaware, It's always the best time to buy Factorio. You dont' have to worry about buying it and then it going on sale. You can buy it, and know what you are buying and that you are getting the best deal.

It's a wonderful game and 100% worth the price. If you don't like those types of games, no reason to buy it. That's fine. No reason to pretend that there is some fiasco. No customer feels that way.

One possible valid criticism is they charge the same price (in USD) everywhere in the world. Many (but certainly not all) games are effectively discounted in poorer countries when converted to the local currency.

They do charge regional pricing. They don’t on their website where it’s always the same price. But they do regional pricing on Steam.

When I initially heard that the dev doesn't do sales, I felt similarly, but it makes sense for a lot of people (as other commenters point out)

What pricing fiasco?

iirc the developer doesn’t do sales? idk it was never a fiasco, just bad if you like sales I guess.

How is that a fiasco? Per hour played, Factorio is stupendously good value, you pay once and you can play forever.

The absence of sales is a big win for me. It made it a no-brainer purchase for me.

Yep, having sales makes a fair number of people wait until there is a sale. Without sales you're pushed back to a (more) binary decision, do I want the game or not, rather than do I want the game at $X price.

Also with sales you get some portion of people that buy things because they are on sale rather than knowing if they really want the game or not, which can lead to complaints on forums.

There was approximately 1 day where the pricing in some currency was off by 1-2 orders of magnitude. I believe the conjecture was that it was politically motivated.

Edit: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=102895

Yes, you are unreasonable.

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