Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

> Tobias Lütke, co-founder and CEO of the ecommerce platform Shopify, lets his staff expense their copies of Factorio. “It’s just bound to be good for Shopify if people play Factorio for a little while,” he told the Invest Like The Best podcast. “Because part of Shopify is building warehouses and fulfilling products for our customers. We are building global supply chains, and Factorio makes a game out of that kind of thinking.”

I wonder if they'll pay for their employees' copies of Wilmot's Warehouse, too.

http://wilmotswarehouse.com



If you've been consistently redeeming free games from Epic you might already have it. It was free on 2020-08-06[1].

[1] https://josephmate.github.io/EpicFreeGamesList/


For anyone similarly confused by the "it," the Aug 6 one was Wilmot's and not Factorio (which, AFAIK, has not been a participant in any giveaway)


Factorio doesn't go on sale. The author's reasoning being it's disrespectful to those who paid full price for it.

Edit: official forum link stating thus: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=159626#p159626


I'm sorry, you're right, I misread https://isthereanydeal.com/game/factorio/info/ without checking https://isthereanydeal.com/game/factorio/history/ which shows it was cheaper but only goes up over time


No worries. It's an interesting moral stand for the author to take, so it's one of those random facts that just sticks out of my brain.


I can certainly say I'm an example of someone who hasn't bought it because it hasn't been on sale, but 50 dollars for a good game is entirely reasonable anyway and I admit I will probably still buy it one day.


It's funny I came across this thread. Just yesterday I was looking at buying it, but it's 50 AUD. I went to add it to my wishlist to wait for a sale, but it was already there. I realised it must have been on there for a long time.

I was wondering if I somehow missed it going on sale, or it never had.

Glad I know it isn't likely to any time soon.


Yeah, it stings. I did buy 2 copies on launch day for myself and my son (8) though. We have spent a lot of time on Factorio together though and I prefer it much more than Minecraft (although we have probably clocked up many many more hours on that).


It's interesting, this isn't the first time Shopify's CEO Tobias has looked to videogames to find skills he wants in employees.

He's a longtime Starcraft fan for example, and offered an ex Starcraft pro a job on the strength of that alone.

There is a reddit thread where he participated in that had some interesting perspectives that I think may be of interest to this forum: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/dl3o2p/billionai...


Heh, I would think that Amazon would allow expensing Wilmot's Warehouse since that feels more in their wheelhouse than Shopify

---

wowzers, "hate" is not a strong enough word for how I feel about that raging piece of junk. Holy hell, I'll never get that 15 minutes of my life back




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: