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Yeah it's an interesting thread.

Supposedly the dev said it on their official forum at some point, but I only heard about it second hand and have no idea if it's true or not.

True, I said basically the same when it was brought up ~2 years ago ^^

Haha, yeah, I'm with you. 50 games in your backlog seems so quaint.

And yet, it's hard to describe who's out of touch. I mean, I think we're absolutely representative of a large group of Steam users, and yet the average Steam user is so far removed from us it's crazy. The average Steam user buys 1 new game a year. The average Steam user has never bought a single bundle of games, from anywhere. We're clearly outliers, but anyone who's ever bought a Humble Bundle is an outlier.

What I get from all this is that the average Steam user is really, really weird. ;)

No idea, honestly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I imagine it can't be too bad considering the overall reception, though.

I've seen the first 10 hours..you farm mobs for quests/special loot but in general it's not too bad. It has a charming story and reminds me a bit of Stardew Valley, interacting with NPCs and hidden stuff around the world/puzzles. I think 100%ing everything would make things more tedious than just a normal playthrough. Also there's mp so playing with friends is a lot of fun.

My friend and I bought this to co-op together. The grind comes in because the character wants to be a famous card collector. When you kill enemies you get card drops from each type of enemy. It's random though so if you want rare drops, you'll have to grind a lot of enemies. I don't think thats necessary to beat the game though, just to get 100%. The game itself is a standard but very well done tribute to old school RPGS.

It's a very good game but I dont know if its finished yet. My friend and I have had some trouble with crashes. Also the game is just very hard, although that could be just us being rusty.

Congrats, you lucky man. ^^

Physical copies will always be discounted. Stores want to get rid of the bad stock. As opposed to Steam where you need not to pay for storage.

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm living in Belgium and I also have games that aren't sold here but are sold for example in the USA.

Thank you, Ivien and I was tired of waiting for a sale, a few years ago, and bought it at full price.

A developer can price their game however they want.. even in regards to sales, some games will keep on selling no matter what like PUBG, but alot of these games in the list, aren't the ones you mentioned, they aren't going to be blowing up the sales chart yet the developer isn't putting a discount on them..

I was aware about sales. But was curious about in a bundle. Only I could think of was the starter pack.

It's such a fantastic game! I haven't played mine yet, saving it for a mythical time when I can get in there and spend some quality time. Historically I was always absolutely terrible at this game. That first cave, with the puppy and the mad carpenter, killed me plenty! And the triffids in the town park generally did me in if the cave didn't.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=972448398

I must´ve been thinking "oh great, bundled soon" or something like that, 15 bucks sounds reasonable enough :)

Nevertheless, they aren't good reasons for not discounting a product nor are they that closely related to it anyway IMO, since casual players or cod kiddies aren't anywhere near the target audience, just like you said, and the majority of the '+1 gang' won't even start up the game anyhow, so any of them dominating the feedback at any point seems highly unlikely to me. An argument like that rather comes across like, for instance, somebody's trying to put a blanket over potential shortcomings their product inherits, especially combined with him peculiarly arguing that, the more technical issues they'd have to investigate, the more it'd distract them from finishing it. Regarding the argument about feedback, I'm kinda on the fence about agreeing with you, although, if you fear that you could get entangled in the never ending ordeal of feeling like you have to please every customer to the fullest extent, I'd be more inclined to argue that another visit to the drawing board could be in order ;).
Granted, creating any product is in almost every case always and for a variety of reasons easier if you tailor it to a specific audience, but in this case I would rather argue that it's more complicated to change anything in a game with a hardcore fanbase than one with a wider and more omnifarious audience, especially with a niche game like Factorio.

Regardless if intended or not, creating such a commotion about issuing a discount is a somewhat precarious move in my eyes, with the risk of scaring off the more shaky buyers and disgruntling the already existing customers when later deciding to put a discount on the game anyhow. There are way better arguments to be made to justify this kind of price politics, beginning with them being a small indie dev and requiring that income to cover their costs, for example and yadda yadda.
So, why not just be honest in the first place and tell people that your product is solid, selling good and doesn't need a discount, cause none of the ubiquitous reasons for one apply, and that you're simply satisfied with your sales and that you simply don't wanna do without the money, instead of making up some BS reasons, implying you never wanna do a deal, while adding the popular phrase 'in the forseeable future' to your statement? Nothing wrong with telling the truth, IMO - and, just to be clear: I can see scenarios where this type of reasoning might be applicable, but I don't see none of that in this case ;>. Further, I also wanna make clear that I'm not in favor of selling a product under its price, on the contrary, and that I don't wanna imply they should participate in the apparently somewhat escalating price dumping some pubs/devs do, either.

tl;dr - devs should just be honest and stop making up BS ;P