Factorio has also had a tradition of slowly increasing its price. Honestly, it’s their right - now that we’re in the era of live service games, and constant inflation, it actually makes sense too.

What’s more, the outrage seems to only make sense from people that had an interest in a game, but were waiting for a sale. If you had no interest in the game, you don’t care about its price increase. If you only cared about it enough to pay a price even lower than its original, then it also doesn’t seem to matter much to you. If you already owned the game, it doesn’t affect you.

There’s also the obvious situation where someone does care about playing the game, but lies to others or even themselves about not caring; hence leading to terrible backwards-logic justifications of piracy.