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Who brought you to factorio?

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I started off as a viewer wathing a lets play series on a youtube channel called ProJaredPlays and i was hooked straight away. I downloaded the demo and i played it for HOURS on end, trying to build the biggest and most wonderful factory in the vast space that the devs wonderfully gave me (thank you Wube)

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Youtuber Toxictimewaster(Ryan)

Was watching Rimworld series, browsed through playlists and found an old (i think 0.13/14) Factorio playlist.

Bought the game after the 2nd episode of watching. Failed, horribly. Watched another 10 hours of other Youtubers. 2500h since Oct. 2017 :shock: :roll: :lol:

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I noticed a friend of mine was playing it a lot on Steam, after several weeks of myself and a few others in our friend group making fun of him for playing a game that sounds like work etc, I watched the trailer and then downloaded the demo. Bought the game the same day, along with the rest of the group.

It's now my most played game on Steam :D
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This stream by Zisteau convinced me to buy the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spFI-amOkXo
At the time I was looking for a "puzzle/logic game that also had some kind of threat so you had an incentive to complete the puzzle" and when I saw that stream I knew that I had found what I was looking for :)

I am however pretty sure that I saw the game before that (also on Zisteau's channel) because I vaguely remember watching him use the faster belt corner technique that was common before version 0.12. But my memory of that is very fuzzy; I must have been 15 when I saw that and I barely understood English back then.
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Not a clue. Probably someone in the Minecraft forum. I got to a point in that game where all I wanted to do was automate stuff and I was constantly frustrated.

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I stumbled across NegativeRoot's Break the Game series with Colonel Will and Madzuri. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH-EQrL ... yKYSjHI3gX
After a few episodes I was hooked and started playing myself. Having learned enough from watching this series to skip right past spaghetti phase into a somewhat proper laid out base. I still cringe at the screenshots of my first base though. :lol:

Edit: Rewatching the vids now this seems like such a long time ago.

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The trailer was what brought me to Factorio. As soon as I saw that trailer, I wanted it. That was when it first came onto Steam. I can't wait to see if they'll update the trailer for v1.0. I think at the end it should include the Factorio sign in-game and fade out to the official Factorio logo. I really loved the transitions which made me think "Hmm, what's going on here?" Then I saw the trains and my eyebrow shot up. Then the best part that made me want to purchase it immediately, trains running over aliens :shock: :mrgreen: 2200+ hours later, still love it.

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I think my son-in-law found it first, and when my daughter saw him playing it, she messaged me right away: "Mom, I think I found a game you will like." After ahem mumble thousands of hours later, I still love it. Thank you Mostly Harmless and Inflicting MHz <3
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CGP Grey, mentioned in one of his podcasts.

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Funny enough, I answered this question here : viewtopic.php?p=62153#p62153
Also, once been advised to have a look at Factorio, I watched the first trailer, and bought the game right after
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I also have to blame my son-in-law for this addiction.

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Post by FrodoOf9Fingers »

I watched 5-6 minutes of a guy building a factory off of a main bus, and was like "meh".

I later watched the trailer, and on a bored day played the demo. The demo is really what sold me on the game, and i promptly spent 20$ of my hard earned in the middle of college with two kids money on the game :)

Only about 1200 hours, not as insane as some others, but i also havent even started bobs or angels yet...

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I've seen the Indiegogo campaign (2013?), went through the demo, got hooked, obtained the game through "other means", played my ass off and bought the full game not a long time later. Playing from time to time ever since, I have no idea how many hours though - I don't play through Steam. Yeah, I can say it, I play Factorio since before it was cool ;)

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xkcd forums, trailer, hooked.
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Wow, i didnt really expect this to gain that much traction!

Thank you for sharing your experiences! I've noticed that some of you tried the demo, like i did. Personally, the Factorio Demo is the best demo i have ever played. You see, the developers deliberatly gave us a generous amount of room to explore, expand and play around with mechanics in the game. After the demo, I went into the game knowing all the early-game basics because of the larger map size in the demo.
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I'm pretty sure it was Arumba on YouTube, who I discovered through Quill18's channel. So one or both of them.

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The 2014 trailer. It popped up on my youtube recommendations, and I was instantly hooked.

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I got to know from some forum. I do not remember exactly where, but probably there was some discussion in Kerbal Space Program's forum. I got interested, checked the webpages and when I saw the first trailer I was certain, that I will get totally addicted. I did not even bother to load demo but bought full version instantly.

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Post by silenced »

Good question, next question.

I think I got hooked by just watching something about and well ... anything that followed is history.

4 years until now, geez!

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I think the video by joseph anderson was the first time I heard about the game. The video got me really interested in factorio. So I watched several different twitch streams, and the thing that really struck me was the graphical style. Also the person I was watching was shotgunning trees, so I decided to try out the demo and then bought the game about an hour later.

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