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Stardew Valley to be Self-Published from December 14th

SecondNature

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Dude worked hard, and became a millionaire by filling in the massive gap left by the harvest moon games. He did it all himself, and his girlfriend's family's support (I think he lived with her parents or something). Im glad for him
 
Richietto

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MOH MONEY! So happy for Eric. Dude is an INCREDIBLE developer and deserves such success. Chucklefish made a ton of money so you know its whatever.
 
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Jonneh

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Chucklefish did a lot for the game so it's a bit of a shame but I'm sure Stardew will continue to grow just fine
 
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Thrill_house

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Glad to hear it. This man busted his ass making something that puts 60 dollar games with big development crews to shame. Feel good success story right here.
 
somerandomweirdguy

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Goes to show how badly Marvelous (and previously Natsume as well) bungled the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons property. Stardew shows that there is a huge potential audience for farming (+romance) sims with cute graphics, but every damn game since 64/BtN has been majorly deficient in at least one (and usually multiple) ways.

Congrats to ConcernedApe and Stardew though. Amazing game.
 
Landford

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Didnt the Chuclefish guys helped him a LOT with the game? Like, wasnt the multiplayer component made with their help?
 
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Theswweet

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somerandomweirdguy said:
Goes to show how badly Marvelous (and previously Natsume as well) bungled the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons property. Stardew shows that there is a huge potential audience for farming (+romance) sims with cute graphics, but every damn game since 64/BtN has been majorly deficient in at least one (and usually multiple) ways.

Congrats to ConcernedApe and Stardew though. Amazing game.
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You have to wonder if, because of Stardew Valley's massive success, that's the main reason we haven't seen the Story of Seasons for Switch yet. They're taking their time.
 

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Chucklefish deserve a lot of credit for their work in distributing, porting and developing the multiplayer for this.

I tried the game on Switch and it didn't really click with me, but the effort put in to the title was clear to see. Good luck to him!
 
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AuthenticM

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Theswweet said:
You have to wonder if, because of Stardew Valley's massive success, that's the main reason we haven't seen the Story of Seasons for Switch yet. They're taking their time.
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They have to. Stardew Valley made Harvest Moon irrelevant. The next game in that series has to be big.
 
ShinySunny

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He totally deserves everything.
I waited a long time for someone to create a better farming game than HM64/PSX, then Stardew came out of nowhere and hit the right spot.
 
chezzymann

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Wait, story of seasons is harvest moon? I thought that was a knockoff game. Huh. Kinda weird to rebrand like that and confuse customers.
 
RPG_Fanatic

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chezzymann said:
Wait, story of seasons is harvest moon? I thought that was a knockoff game. Huh. Kinda weird to rebrand like that and confuse customers.
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Well, the Japanese company switched localization studios to Xseed, but Natsume held the rights for the name Harvest Moon. So Marvelous had think of a new name while Natsume decided to make there own series with the Harvest Moon games to ride off the brand recognition.
 
Diarrhea Day-Lewis

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IMO may be game of the gen for me or up there. Happy to see the success. I feel guilty even wondering what's next for him after Stardew tho knowing what he went thru to get it out
 
LycanXIII

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Congrats to the guy!
Chucklefish will be fine, but I'd love for them to hurry up with the console port of Starbound.
 
Vitor

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I was hoping he'd get involved with Witchbrook, but I guess he must prefer to work solo. Here's hoping the next ConcernedApe game is just as awesome as Stardew.
 
ZugZug123

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Every time I fire up Stardew and the opening music just washes over me to make me happy and stress free I am amazed at how this was the work of one person. I can't even make a silly RPG maker game with stick assets ^^'
 
Braaier

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I was just playing some Stardew Valley. The game is so good. I'm a little OCD with it though so the fact that I missed some spring veg is gnawing at me. I really should have read some first time tips prior to starting. Oh well. I'm going to be sinking a lot of time into this game. Interested to see what the multiplayer is all about!
 
Tfritz

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AuthenticM said:
They have to. Stardew Valley made Harvest Moon irrelevant. The next game in that series has to be big.
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You could argue that Story of Seasons's bigness (or shall we say... Bloatedness) is one of the reasons it isn't as successful as Stardew Valley, and they'd do well to pay attention to what Stardew did right in terms of streamlining instead of padding the game with sarcastic-quotation-marks content.
 
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