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I'm still pissed that they won't discount their game. They're very adamant that they set an appropriate price and they refuse to take part in game sales. Personally, I've played their game and I didn't feel it's worth the price tag.
Joke's on them, though. I got a Steam key in a game bundle through a reseller site. Spent like $10 for a dozen games and Factorio was one of them.
Why are you even in this community if you don't like the game?
I'm not. I browse by "All" and this was at the top of my feed when I commented. I follow a lot of games news, so I poked my head in to check it out. And at the time, there were no other comments here, so I left my 2 cents.
Had I noticed this was a dedicated Factorio community, I probably would've kept my experience to myself. I should've known a community dedicated to this game would gang up on me for not heaping praise on it. My apologies.
The importance of checking which community you are in!
On one hand I get the resentment at having a negative opinion and getting downvoted by people who do not share it, especially when you expressed your opinion civilly; on another, it is a reasonable expectation that when you enter the Thing Enthusiast Club and say "Thing sucks" without a detailed critique they will not be too pleased, and I think it's kind of an understandable thing. While we do need to welcome differing opinions, always having an open and welcoming ear for differing opinions might make it hard to just sit and enjoy things with likeminded people. Sometimes you just want to watch the game, the movie, bake the cake, without hearing about why the sport sucks or the movie is a hack job or the cake is bad for your health.
I think there are subscribers who are community regulars looking to just enjoy stuff together, and then the people coming in from Local or All understandably wondering why they cannot say anything negative about the Thing, especially when it might make an interesting point for discussion, and I am not sure how to resolve that!