Stardew Valley creator on why all of the updates are free, doesn’t care about money that much

Although Stardew Valley has been around for many years, the game hasn’t charged for any of its updates. Everything has been free. That’s despite the fact that many of its patches have been substantial, bringing along new content, features, and more.

For what Stardew Valley has brought to the game over the past decade, many studios would have opted to charge for at least some of it as paid DLC. ConcernedApe, however, has not gone down that path. Now we get to hear directly from its creator about why all of the updates have been free.

Speaking during the Tiger Belly Podcast asked about what the game’s updates cost, to which ConcernedApe responded as follows:

“Nothing. It’s just like, I don’t care. I don’t care about money that much to be honest. I’m not trying to virtue signal, but I honestly don’t care about money that much. It’s never been the driving, motivating factor. What I care about is people loving the game.”

We were also recently about to hear from ConcernedApe as to whether we could one day get a Stardew Valley sequel. You can find the developer’s full comments here.