• @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    361 year ago

    At this point they should just hold on to all the updates they want to add, and make it a sequel. I love all the things that they’ve added and it’s clearly a piece of passion, but at some point they’re going to need to publish something else

    • rigatti
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      1071 year ago

      He surely has enough money from Stardew to live comfortably for the rest of his life. Why would he need to publish anything?

      • @starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I never thought about it like that. If he makes an average of just $0.50 per sale after all the storefront fees and taxes and stuff, he would still have enough money to pay himself $200,000 a year for an entire lifetime, just from the sales he’s already made. No wonder he’s so chill about keeping the game updated for free. What an awesome guy

        • @mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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          61 year ago

          He has hired a few contractors to help build out features like co-op, (though the first few versions were entirely him on his own). That would eat into profits a bit, but even if he paid each of them $100k for their work there are few enough for it to be a drop in the bucket

    • @Goronmon@lemmy.worldOP
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      521 year ago

      He is making something else, Haunted Chocolatier.

      It looks like he’s effectively using Stardew Valley as a testing ground for features to see how they might work in that game.

      So, not a direct sequel, but not a completely unrelated game either.