Friday Facts #439 - Factorio and Space Age on Nintendo Switch 2

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-439

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savvywolf@pawb.social · 14 pts · 297d (10 replies)

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

Blaster_M@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 297d (9 replies)

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

bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 297d (8 replies)

How are these two things related?

scratchee@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 296d (7 replies)

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

bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 296d (5 replies)

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.

scratchee@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 296d (4 replies)

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

Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 294d (3 replies)

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

scratchee@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 293d

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.

Drigo@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 296d

I guess inflation indirectly reduces the price every year?

GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 297d (3 replies)

2.1 confirmed! Yay!

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

18107@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 297d (1 reply)

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.

GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 297d

Yeah, the base game shows it really has 8 years of polish to it. Space age is great, but isn't 8 year polished. It's like the difference between 99% and 98%.

msfroh@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 296d

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.