Stardew Valley creator and Haunted Chocolatier developer Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has sworn, on the honour of his family name, never to charge for a DLC or update for as long as he lives, and long may he. Barone made this bold pronouncement on X, asking fans to "screencap this and shame me if I ever violate this oath," and we thought we'd do our part to hold him to it (thanks, PC Gamer).
This binding vow came up rather organically after the phenomenally successful developer admitted that the long wait for Stardew Valley's next update is always on his mind. Sadly, its release on PlayStation is still not ready to be announced, but it's hard to be too upset, considering the generous (perhaps fanatical) dedication Barone has shown to the cosy farming classic
Will you hold Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone to his word and his family's honour? What do you think of his dedication to the nearly eight-year-old game? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source x.com, via pcgamer.com]
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To be fair, he's already worth $45 million. He can retire at any point like Notch did.
@ATaco damn that much hell no wonder y it's taking so long I'd be enjoying myself
Ok, but will they ever release the game on PlayStation in Japan is what I wanna know
I'm more concerned about the post before.
Is this the new norm of privileged gamers??
So because you have to wait for the 1 man band to make dlc and updates that he shouldn't charge because of the waiting?
Cant believe someone would write well aslong as any updates and dlc are free I'll keep playing basically.
Makes me sick, these types of creators (literally just himself) are probably the only ones who truly deserve the money for dlc.
Rich or not off this game, he dedicated all of his free time creating this master piece of a game without any real help at all, im pretty sure he did it all by himself.
There only a few out there with this much talent and guts to do it and they deserve all the money they are given.
@Bez87 I agree with most of your post but FYI it isn't just Eric Barone anymore, since 1.4 he has had help on other elements of the game on Windows, and ports have all been handled by other studios. It's mostly Eric but not "literally just himself"
I'm not yet play this game (farm sims isn't my cup of tea) but this guy got my respect 🫡
@Bez87 "Is this the new norm of privileged gamers??"
Yep. It's been like that for a couple of years. I saw some gamers even complaint about free DLC. It's just nuts.
@PuppetMaster Its not "just" a farming sim, and thats all I'll say on that
@PaperAlien I know it plays pretty much like Harvest Moon. The core gameplay is farming despite you can do some side activities and married.
@themightyant @PuppetMaster
outrageous, free dlc and someone moaning hahaha it's brilliant.
You know this comes from the gamers coming up now from the tablets, where the attention span is tiny and they switch games every few minutes.
And glad he's got help now, but having more people involved I think he has every right to charge for dlcs, he has more reason to than say EA, Ubisoft and the rest.
But maybe his game won't ever get dlc, he'll probably make his next game.
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