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Friday Facts #439 - Factorio and Space Age on Nintendo Switch 2 (www.factorio.com)
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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The price for this upgrade will be... free. We don't believe paying for a technical upgrade is reasonable.

Not sure if throwing shade here is intentional or not. :P

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    To be fair, they also don't put their game on discount, so there is an obligation to keep it up to date.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    How are these two things related?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    It not exactly, but it does feel like it should be related… maybe if you are paying full price regardless and there’s never a sale or reduction in price then the implication is the game is remaining at full support and compatibility indefinitely too?

    I wonder if they will eventually reduce the price once they stop supporting the game fully

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    What kind of indefinite support do you expect? It’s mostly a single-player game. Multiplayer is peer-to-peer. Once all bugs are fixed, the game is done.

    If hardware and software advance to the point that the game no longer runs, a discount won’t help with that either.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Windows changes slowly rot old games, even if an old game still runs you slowly have to jump through more hoops to run it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Good thing this game runs on Mac... and Linux... and Switch 1, all natively

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Very good thing, but doesn’t help anyone who bought the game on windows.

    And realistically Mac will break much quicker, and Linux will probably break too. Switch I agree should be solid, you don’t mess with console apis.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    You don't buy for a specific platform... you have it for all platforms other than Switch, because Nintendo.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I should have said: “Anyone who isn’t lucky enough to own every platform”.

    This is all academic anyway, since factorio does have ongoing support to justify the ongoing full price, so there isn’t a problem to be solved.

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    • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    2.1 confirmed! Yay!

    I'm decently happy with space age but it needs another Wube trademark balancing pass.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've found a few bugs and missing features in Space Age. I'm hoping 2.1 will fix most of them.

    Normally I wouldn't even notice these issues, but the ludicrously high quality of the base game has shifted my perspective.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    In short, its going to be quite a while, I can promise it won't be ready this year...

    Yay! I still have time to use my legendary asteroid casino before that gets nerfed.

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