For what purpose?
Opening the source?
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If you want to get ahold of me I'm almost always on Discord.
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sir look I don't want to be rude here I was genuinely asking you to open the game code since the 2.1 is the last release.
and apologies any wrong sentence I said in my previous thread if you don't want to... then I won't bother either since the game is still proprietary.
but thanks for replying
peace...
oh and I see you are not the main dev here just a staff
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I know dude. seems like inspirational game of this is still an exception and I'm making it
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One the main benefits to open source is to allow a community of people to maintain and improve the codebase. In this situation, Factorio is largely a finished product that works incredibly well and has an incredibly small number of remaining bugs that Wube seems to tackle quickly. I don't see the point of even wanting Factorio to be open source.
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In case someone wanted to megabase on a RISC-V laptop a decade later, they'd want to rebuild factorio natively. It wasn't pleasant megabasing on an Asahi Linux laptop for me, before the 2.1 ARM64 Linux port.NineNine wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2026 1:24 pm One the main benefits to open source is to allow a community of people to maintain and improve the codebase. In this situation, Factorio is largely a finished product that works incredibly well and has an incredibly small number of remaining bugs that Wube seems to tackle quickly. I don't see the point of even wanting Factorio to be open source.