Personally, I don't mind at all. For one I bought it at $30, but also I have 2,000 hours logged. Per hour that's a cost of $0.02 per hour (at the new price) if I had bought it at $40. I'm all for calling out studios like ubisoft for being greedy, but coffee stain has done a very fair job with Satisfactory IMO, and they very well deserve $10 more for the game.
Honestly as much as I dislike it raising in price, if this is a price increase for the initial release that's completely fine due to the fact that the game is definitely worth more than they're selling it anyway, plus I give them props alone for releasing the fact that they are going to raise the price because most Studios would just have this really good deal and then raise the base price after the sale never letting anyone know ahead of time
Ahhh I'm torn about it. Is there any news about the stuttering issue that came with update 8? It's unplayable now around the northern forest and if this is how 1.0 is I'll pass
I mean, would you argue that the game isn't worth the price increase? I've always felt that this game with what they gave you for content is well worth a $50 price point, honestly tentatively say maybe even a $60 price point, I mean I do agree you that it's weird that they're choosing to raise the price now, considering that they honestly should have raised the price point of the game easily one or two years ago, but I definitely wouldn't go to say that the game isn't worth the price that they're asking for, I still personally believe they are under selling their game.
Honestly, they could increase the game after the sale, launch the 1.0 release and raise the price again saying that okay now it's no longer Early Access and I think that would be 100% Fair, I've gotten exponentially more hours out of this game than I have out of games that I've paid $70 for
Tbh I feel it’s totally worth the price, and if they said that they increased the price due to the added value since releasing into ea I’d be totally fine with it. But using inflation as a cover, like the Factorio devs before them, is gross and deceptive. Hell, I’d rather them just say “we want more money”. At least that’s honest.
Like I said, it’s fine if they want to increase the price due to an official release, or simply because they feel there has been significant value added since launching into early access. Lots of devs do that, it’s not a big deal. But none of them lie about inflation somehow affecting an existing digital good in any meaningful way. Well again, except Factorio lol. But that guy also excused statutory rape so…