Comic Strips

It is more anti-customer to hold your price at a certain level and offer discounts so you both:

• get to charge above what most people think is a fair price to suckers who don't pay attention to sales
• sell to people who think a lower amount is all the game is worth
• sell to people who others are not likely to even buy the game because they see a "great deal" and don't want to miss out.

Your position seems to be based on two things:

1. "Everyone" else does it this way, so any developer who doesn't must be an asshole, so you won't buy the game
2. Old games need to be available for a lower price

1 is obviously wrong. It doesn't matter what other studios do except that their marketing as so cooked your brain you can't see any alternative.

2. Is reasonable but you know, I'd sure prefer that old games just reduced their price, you know, like they used to instead of perpetual sales you have to watch out for.

Factorio is 5 and a half years old and costs £30. In that time it has had a number of major updates, and players typically play it for hundreds or thousands of hours, and it is rated extremely highly. Evaluate it on that basis rather than on some utterly irrational standard that has literally nothing to do with what you actually pay or how much fun you actually might have.