Space Age DLC is a Cash Grab - It Should’ve Been a Standalone Game

[desarso]

Listen, Idk how broke you need to be to think that $35 is a cash grab for such a quality game. Also, original players already have the game, so if it makes no difference for us if it's standalone. The logic makes no sense.

[Skjolbir]

This is surely satire?!?!

[eugenekay]

This is surely satire?!?!

Some people like to complain on the internet. The polite thing to do (much like real life), is to laugh at how silly it is.

[youtakun]

I have an opinion, not the opposite opinion of OP but of a complementary opinion. I have the base game, but I feel like Wube robbed me of the game I paid for. You see, my only enjoyment of the game is online multiplayer with strangers. I don't have many friends playing the game and I find playing it solo very boring (may have to do with that I'm on the autism spectrum). Since SA was released, almost no (quality) vanilla servers remain, and I have no opportunities anymore to play it.

[mmmPI]

I have an opinion, not the opposite opinion of OP but of a complementary opinion. I have the base game, but I feel like Wube robbed me of the game I paid for. You see, my only enjoyment of the game is online multiplayer with strangers. I don't have many friends playing the game and I find playing it solo very boring (may have to do with that I'm on the autism spectrum). Since SA was released, almost no (quality) vanilla servers remain, and I have no opportunities anymore to play it.

I felt somewhat similar when the blueprint were introduced, before them i felt like the game in multiplayer was player discussing to solve a problem, but after blueprint were introduced, many servers became ( to me ) "filling the blueprint someone with 0 knowledge of the game picked up on the internet and plopped randomly on the map".

I hope you will find some remaining servers where you can enjoy the game, hosting a game myself and not allowing players joining to import their blueprint allowed me to somewhat continue playing what i like with random strangers and i'm doing this with Space Age more often than joining random multiplayer server.

[Laramy65]

i dont think think space age would work as standalone game. like at all. are you interested in space age, but not have factorio. why dont you play factorio? as per opinion of the developers it costs what it cost because that is how much it is worth, and factorio can be very time intensive so you better think so too otherwise you are wasting your time and money.

is factorio not your thing? now you know to not buy space age. and now you have spent exactly zero bucks on factorio space age so why are you complaining

[mindelos]

Is this a joke? How TF you call Cash Grab to this vast amount of new content? Your claims make no sense

[470lm]

That's enough internet for me today

[fencingsquirrel]

Some necrothreads are good. Some are not. This is the latter.

[youtakun]

It's been 2 months since my first rant, and I thought I'd check in and see if the non-SA player base has restored a bit, and I was shocked by what I found.
Not only are there still very few non-SA servers, the exact amount is unclear to me because all SA servers are now regarded as having no mods, and when you click on one to see the details, they all have three mods, SA being one of them! For clients with SA this would be expected behavior, but for clients without SA this is clearly a bug. Or more money-grabbing.

[NineNine]

It's been 2 months since my first rant, and I thought I'd check in and see if the non-SA player base has restored a bit, and I was shocked by what I found.
Not only are there still very few non-SA servers, the exact amount is unclear to me because all SA servers are now regarded as having no mods, and when you click on one to see the details, they all have three mods, SA being one of them! For clients with SA this would be expected behavior, but for clients without SA this is clearly a bug. Or more money-grabbing.

If you read either these forums, or the ones on Reddit, you'll see that most of the discussions have been about Space Age since it's release. It's clearly very popular with Factorio players. I'm shocked that somebody would be "shocked" about this.

[mmmPI]

Or more money-grabbing.

Players asked for it.

[Panzerknacker]

It's been 2 months since my first rant, and I thought I'd check in and see if the non-SA player base has restored a bit, and I was shocked by what I found.
Not only are there still very few non-SA servers, the exact amount is unclear to me because all SA servers are now regarded as having no mods, and when you click on one to see the details, they all have three mods, SA being one of them! For clients with SA this would be expected behavior, but for clients without SA this is clearly a bug. Or more money-grabbing.

If you read either these forums, or the ones on Reddit, you'll see that most of the discussions have been about Space Age since it's release. It's clearly very popular with Factorio players. I'm shocked that somebody would be "shocked" about this.

Nah he is right imo, there should be a way to filter for non-SA servers. Although tbh I would rather play 1.1 in that case.

[Shulmeister]

That's clearly wrong to imply it's a bug or a cash grab when it was introduced at players demand and works as intented

[wouteree]

My friend, this is not a cash grab. This is probably the best DLC I have ever played. It easily introduces 500 hours of gameplay if you want to automate everything, visit everything and dominate everything. To me the DLC is amazing as the developers clearly want you to adapt to new problems and fix them. The idea is simple, but the implementation must have been more complex. I like Space Age. I cannot think about Factorio without instantly thinkg about Space Age. Well done! Cash grab? I think that is a delusional statement, my friend.

[Heckett]

Are gamers now so brain-rot addicted to useless, pointless "expansions" in modern games that we've forgotten that SA is what DLC used to be and should still be?

Geez

[adam_bise]

I wish the mods would delete this offensive thread. It needs to die.

[jamiechi1]

I agree. I did report the thread to the Moderators and asked them to close it.