We could really say the same to this criticism that people tell it is constructive but nothing really comes out of it. Really people are creating problems and call it criticism, you are disingenuous yourself. It's a fair point that criticism kind of leads to wall of text, so it's harder to extract ...

I guess my main mistake was to seriously try proving to delusional people that they are delusional. Fighting windmills, happens. I'd still like you to make an effort. Responding to a wall of text with "you're just delusional" is indeed fighting windmills, except you're the windmill. Doubl...

Future features? What is coming in the next year is essentially Factorio 2, and it is in the development for how long now, 3 years or more? And you already want Factorio 3 or what? Upcoming update may be the last one ever. And developers said they had large playtests and quality system is perfectly...

As you are ultimately arguing on a topic of your original first post, I'll reply to it instead of trying to convince you that it is indeed a proper defense to say it's optional against some delusional players who can't figure out common sense . I'll give you more arguments to consider, all in terms...

People are way too upset about this quality feature, but are forgetting that it's an optional mechanic. If you don't like it, you don't have to do it. Except it's an opportunity cost in terms of game features. They spend a bunch of time adding an optional feature I won't be using instead of spendin...

I really, really, really don't like this update. I think it's explicitly taking the game in the wrong direction. See, the early and midgame in Factorio has two components to it: the grind and the automation. The grind is meticulously setting up more and more stuff to produce more and more things. It...