Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by orost 1295 days ago
No, Factorio is a perfect example of a game that benefits from as much optimization as possible. It's an unlimited-scope game where expanding forever is the natural course of action so any improvement in performance directly translates to improved gameplay experience because it means you can expand for longer before it starts to degrade.

In this kind of game, no matter how well it runs, there will be someone who has built enough that they're wishing it would run even better.