>My principal is to never buy items that aren't arbitrarily on sale no matter what other logic may factor in
To each their own
Factorio is getting a paid expansion, and if you have any complaints about it, read this and be humbled
the principle of only buying a game on sale though doesn't really make sense in this case. when it's triple A garbage that you only slightly care about then sure, not paying $60 is fine, but when the game is $30 and provides way more value, then what exactly is your principle based on?
Yeah, principles is how you manipulate dumb people easily.
Oh snap, those kike companies manipulated me into not buying full price games.
Oh yeah those kike companies are really bad and mean and we're totally not like that bro! We're the good guys selling you what you want.
>full price
Yes that's the trick
I don't mind the idea of an expansion being a larger scale update to kick things off, to further support development. I don't expect anything to be entirely free anymore, and if factorio continues putting out decently sized updates at a regular pace, I'm happy throwing another tenner down per year.
i hope it EXPANDS into 3d and first person and becomes Minecraft. I want to play it in Minecraft, that is all.