How to actually buy factorio on the website

[infogulch]

I wanted to buy the game as a gift, but the website was impossible to actually find the buy page for the base game while I was logged in. I spent 20 minutes with half a dozen people on discord and we eventually guessed the url:

https://factorio.com/buy

https://factorio.com/space-age/buy

I'm getting kinda old and it's been a few years since I built web pages with an optimized a user funnel, but maybe as a start the Content pages for both Factorio and Factorio: Space Age should link to their respective Buy pages, you know, so people can actually buy the game?

[angramania]

There are big buttons "Buy Factorio" and "Buy Factorio: Space Age" if you are not logined. If you have already bought base Factorio and logged in then only "Buy Factorio: Space Age" will be shown. If you have bought it as well this button will also be hidden. Quite logical.

[infogulch]

Quite logical.

Only if buying as a gift is very rare.

I think the link "Buy Factorio: Space Age again" is much better than completely hiding the purchase page.

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[IsaacOscar]

It's very weird, when logged in with my account that has bought both the base game and space age from the website, the only place I could find a 'buy' button was by clicking the 'Game' submenu:

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Notice how it only gives an option to buy space age.

Now clicking the 'Space Age' menu button, doesn't give me a buy option at all.

And hovering over the menu buttons don't show either.

[Gummiente27]

So hard to log out

[IsaacOscar]

So hard to log out

Logging back in is the hard part!
It could also takes a while to work out that you should log out.