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Since the game costs a straight $30 up front and has no in-app purchases, subscriptions, or ads, there’s really no incentive for the developers to use “tricks”
by avalys 6y ago
Since the game costs a straight $30 up front and has no in-app purchases, subscriptions, or ads, there’s really no incentive for the developers to use “tricks” to make it addictive. It’s just what I’d call an old-fashioned “good game.”
- DonHopkins 6y agoPlus the code is ROCK SOLID and always has been -- it hardly ever crashes. Yet it's like a pinball machine with 5 million balls in play, and still amazingly fast. Also the beautiful hires Czechnological artwork. It's top-notch design, execution, and graphics.
- octorian 6y agoAnd starts reasonably quickly. And runs really well on Linux, with no quirks or hicups. (As someone who uses a Linux machine as the "primary" desktop, only switching to a Windows machine for games and other things that need it, I find it really nice to have a quick-to-launch game that runs perfectly on Linux.)
- _jjkk 6y agoAND allows you to easily spin up a dedicated server for multiplayer, WITH easily synced mods between all players. AND well-defined mod migration for updating mods to new Factorio versions without breaking them or your maps.
- m463 6y agoI'm kind of amazed at how the trains keep running (apart from my own inability to truly understand signals)