It would exist. because they made it, not us.


Actually no. Thousands of bug reports and suggestions and feedback and mods that were integrated into the game. This is many hours of unpaid labour. It was a collaboration. And without people buying the game there wouldn't be a company, and less ...

There is none so entitled as the guy who's paid a whole fifty-five bucks for a game.
Once you've forked over that kind of money, you're practically a part-owner of the company, and should be consulted on every decision. :roll:


Entitled? Factorio wouldn't exist without the community. Wube wouldn ...

Factorio is neither Sandbox nor Adventure.


Those are words I used to describe the two extremes between which ALL games live, which is open ended freedom and self made goals (sandbox) vs constrained freedom and developer determined goals (adventure).

These two conflict with each other. By ...

My Nauvis Base does not have any defenses, and I am pretty much not getting attacked by Biters on default Settings unless they expand to a closeby area, in which case, yes I am forced to kill the nearby nest, but apart from that it is quite peaceful as long as you keep your pollution and ...

My guess, having seen a few posts here and there along similar lines, is that it's because how Wube has interacted with the community has changed over the years.


This is worth highlighting. The original game had a lot more back and forth and iteration. Major changes happened. The expectation I ...

Can you elaborate, please? I have some questions to the SA expansion too and base game is arguably more dense and well-thought to me, but I wonder what makes you unhappy about it.


I've written stuff elsewhere. This won't be comprehensive, but is an attempt to summarize and give some examples to ...

If there's one big thing I'd like re: communication, its for Wube to explain what the intention for Factorio is, and explain design decisions, and do a post mortem about the design. Because you're asking for feedback, but from what I see you don't care at all about feedback and are just doing what ...

Are people seriously saying that this game, which is UNDOUBTEDLY one of the most free and open sandbox games on the market, isn't a sandbox game because they can't do one specific thing?


It's not a binary. Wube have made a series of choices to mandate particular ways of playing which has made ...

Loewchen wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 11:47 am I think or hope Kovarex is busy with what comes after factorio.

I think most people hoped he was working on Factorio.

but since the focus is shifting toward new projects its not worth to fix a system that needs a ground up revisit, not just a nerved casino or removed lds shuffle, these are just symptoms, not the reason.


If I had to guess, quality is supposed to be a generic system that works seamlessly with ...

In my opinion making a mini-mod of the recycler is almost a hack and surely wasn't a change that the perfectionists at Wube accepted lightly. But it seems they felt it necessary to provide a setting for all players who don't like quality but use it because of some compulsion because it is there ...

Wube held back changes they could have and should have released a long time ago in order to buy goodwill and distract from the fact they they aren't fixing/improving other parts of the game because they don't want to work on Factorio any more.

The fact of the matter is, people will inevitably gravitate towards the path of least resistance, whether that leads to good/interesting gameplay or not.


The difference in WoW is that it effects other people, as it's a multiplayer game.

I hate this elitist attitude. "Sorry guys, if you aren't ...

I'm in a straight betwixt two, but I feel like it's a "speak now or forever hold your peace" type situation.

In the world generally we're seeing a disconnect between governments and citizens. There's a feeling that governments are not listening to people and don't understand the problems that ...

bobucles wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2026 5:28 pm Let's be honest here. Who actually uses the asteroid reroll recipe in a serious, non quality way?

The one place I use it is on my calcite making platform to turn all the chunks into oxide.

Leex2k wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2026 4:52 pm You literally have the option to play whichever version of the game that you want. If you don't want the devs to tamper with your experience, you don't have to let them. The choice is yours alone.

This argument isn't valid because if you stick to 2.0 you miss out on everything else in 2.1.

no idea about asteroid quality mining because I dont have DLC but you can make game harder or easier there.


This post was made in reference to quality modules being disallowed in a recipe in 2.1 because it was said to be too easy, and has nothing to do with the options you showed.

The point is ...

nikimilky wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2026 7:11 am but there are difficulty settings (even much more customisable than what you mentioned) in the game already.

You can decide whether or not you can use quality modules in the asteroid reprocessing recipe already? Where is this option?

Enjoy. Not just the ability -- my enjoyment matters too. What good game balance does is that
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and leaves me with gameplay I can enjoy rather than being forced to choose between bad options.
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the space casino is excessively better than other options, and causes gameplay to degenerate ...

While I agree with some of what you've said in principle, we're talking about a late game thing that has already been in the game for a year and a half. And Factorio is a non competitive, mostly single player game, and partially a sandbox.
And? Are those reasons I should not be allowed to enjoy ...