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They should write more lines of code, they'll be rich!

I think that's literally what they intend to do with an expansion pack, after all.

They are neat! I got inexplicably a huge grin reading these. It's just cool to see how it all breaks down :D

If there are 0.34 lines per buyer and 37 days per line, does that mean that the average playtime could be in the proximity of 12½ days? That's impressive, and is probably much higher if you take into account the traditionally large number of Steam who don't install many of their purchases.

I'm sure this is also affected by a large number of 'idle' hours where people are running it in the background or something

I did that on my first playthough. Getting those 1000 blue circuits was going to take awhile, and rather than fix my bottlenecks to speed it up, I just went to bed and let the game run overnight.

Something that may contribute to that may be that Factorio has never been part of a Steam sale or bundle, which is where I suspect most of those "owned but never played" games come from.