• rigatti@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

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

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      4 months 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

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        4 months 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

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      4 months ago

      Because 4 years ago he said he was working on another game based on stardew.