This is kind of depressing actually, remember when these were just goofy little management/builder games? It was an innocent game that was departed from the problems of real life and that was one of its strengths.
We're like two patches away from the Thalidomide Babies & Melanoma update at this rate =/
@lonewolf1044: It's a digital only game on Steam. This isn't the first time they've upped the price, and they have a pledge to never go on sale. It's honestly like they don't want people to buy it.
If you have to raise the price on your 7 year old $30 game to stay profitable, I think there's probably something bigger wrong with your business model than just inflation.
Games generally DEPRECIATE in value for the first 20 odd years of their life, not the other way around.
But the Factorio fanbase are utterly rabid so who knows, maybe this will just prompt them to buy extra copies of it to fuel their conveyor belt fetishes.
@lord2fli: I've always just found it funny. The bigger the meltdown the bigger the laugh.
But I also grew up when the whole 'sticks and stones' saying was still the common refrain. It's basically not worth interacting with humans online in almost any capacity now, everyone takes everything too seriously and you can't actually discuss anything in good faith since all anyone does is try to score updoots and argue disingenuously.
@crashchaos: Couldn't tell you. I'm not a fan of those either honestly. Though, it is nice to be able to TRY a game without downloading it for a bit and decide if I want to actually play it without waiting for a 40gb download. I've only done that 3 or 4 times though maybe since they implemented it.
I imagine that might be part of it with Xcloud at least, you need Gamepass to use it and that means you can just download the games.
Every part of it is an antagonistic relationship though, it's all pushing boundaries down that road of removing any rights from the player. Which sounds conspiratorial and a bit crazy, but their actions constantly bear it out. Let's not forget Xbox's attempt to get rid of the used market on Xbox One. Sony was planning the same thing, the capacity to do it existed on the PS4 discs but they scrapped it for some good press.
@crashchaos: It's a step towards losing even more control over your games. Getting EVERYTHING streaming is a long term goal of all of the game companies pretty much, so then you can only play when they let you, when you have internet, and if you say or do something they don't like they can take it away from you.
Digital games also suffer from this but to a much lesser extent, hell, some physical games kinda do with the way Xbox handles DRM, but, to be frank, piracy exists and you could still manage to access the games even if the company was gone and the storefronts were down.
If games go 100% streaming, when the game is gone, it's gone. Stadia was a step down that road that no one was comfortable with.
"But of course, it does help that Valhalla has been made available through subscription services like PS Plus — 20 million players certainly doesn't equate to 20 million copies sold."
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