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Fucking hell dude. The fact that you frame it in terms of going on sale is absolutely insane. The marketers have turned your brain to absolute mush. You could have said "it's too expensive" but no, you won't buy it because it's never on sale. You don't care how fun it will be and whether it's worth the cost, only that the current price will never be arbitrarily less than some earlier price.
It is more anti-customer to hold your price at a certain level and offer discounts so you both:
Your position seems to be based on two things:
1 is obviously wrong. It doesn't matter what other studios do except that their marketing as so cooked your brain you can't see any alternative.
Factorio is 5 and a half years old and costs Β£30. In that time it has had a number of major updates, and players typically play it for hundreds or thousands of hours, and it is rated extremely highly. Evaluate it on that basis rather than on some utterly irrational standard that has literally nothing to do with what you actually pay or how much fun you actually might have.
You haven't even bothered to write any text to try and defend this absurd, idiotic idea that the two choices available are "sales" or "full price forever".
Your "point" is not fucking true. Games can (and routinely used to) permanently discount their RRP as they got older.
They only stopped doing that because temporary discounts make more money. It works so well that they've conned you into believing that doing so is the only possibility, and pro-consumer.
Your excuses for not reading do explain why you're like this.
I paid for the game years ago and have since got hundreds of hours of enjoyment out of it. I don't remember what I paid, or care, because I know I got a good deal given how fun it is.
I'm obsessed with the fact that you think what matters is the discount, not the price. Here, this is you:
Sucker. Let me guess, you've been manipulated so thoroughly you think Temu's gamified shopping is pro-consumer too? And fast-food places "discounting" your Β£30 burger meal down to Β£15 with a complex system of vouchers? That's good too, is it?
You are SO CLOSE to understanding that the sale doesn't matter, only the price matters. Keep trying, buddy.
Cool, we got there, it's about the price.
So, next time you want to talk about it, maybe just say it's too expensive for you and you'd rather spend your money on something else, unless they lower the price.
If "the end price is what matters" then why do you care about whether the developers do sales, instead of what price the studio sets?
Boy is this a take and a half. So instead of asking a price they think is fair, they should ask more, and arbitrarily reduce that on occasion to manipulate you into buying the product through FOMO, and thatβs consumer friendly?