Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2

I don't think this guy sleeps, but I am ready to give them more money.

Stardew Valley is hands down the best farming sim.

Please no. SDV is amazing and the updates have been wonderful but I’d much rather he would move on and continue working on original projects like his Haunted Chocolatier.

I think we'd all enjoy a fresh take on SDV. There's probably a ton he'd like to change, but can't without having to rework the whole thing.

He did a fantastic job making the game what it is by adding slowly to the game, but it's certainly pretty disjointed and limited in a lot of ways.

"gamers" would have a cow if there was ever a sequel seriously discussed. He already charged them once, how dare he charge them again.
I suspect 10-20% of the community would take that stance, even if it's only a few%, it would absolutely be magnified by the echo chamber and there will be talk or how concerned ape left stardew valley "incomplete" and it's "abandon-ware"and all future products should be pirated.
- Not sure where you’re coming from. Stardew Valley was completed years ago and the guy has actually kept releasing free content updates nobody even asked for. People are actually getting annoyed at him for continuing to update it since he’s supposed to be working on his next game.
- ConcernedApe isn't EA. People love him and are happy to give him their money. I know many people that have Stardew on multiple platforms
- You're so far off base it's hilarious. A Stardew Valley 2 would be hype as hell.

I recently recommended the game to my wife and since then she tells me every day what her progress is and what she hates about the game and how tedious it is and how bad and inconsistent the controls are. And then she's off to play more.

The controls really are awful, not sure how console folks can enjoy the game
- having played maybe 500 hours with controller only, maybe I don't know what I'm missing, but the controls don't seem that bad. Only thing which comes to mind as terrible is the slingshot, i never even try to use that.
- I originally played it on my desktop and now on my Steam Deck. The controls for controllers aren't bad
- Having originally cut my teeth on Harvest Moons on SNES, N64, PS, PS2, and DS, I found the controls for Stardew Valley mind-blowingly good.
  But that might have been because it was my first time playing a game like that with mouse and keyboard.
The slow movement is what kept me from playing it forever. I know there's mods that improve it, but I wish the base speed would be higher.
Back at 1.0 launch it also had a bug where walking diagonally was even slower, so that may have affected my judgment as well - it was fixed after a week or so.
- In case you're not aware, there are ways to increase your speed within the game which feel like earned progress.
- There are plenty of both permanent and temporary speed increases, with the permanent ones you are almost as fast as the horse. And with temporary ones you can be faster than it. No need for mods, just base game. And these are things you easily earn part way through the first year.

He hasn't had a great streak in completing progress in haunted chocolatier because he keeps getting pulled back into stardew valley ports and making new content for stardew valley. If he and his collaborators soon have to support both stardew valley and haunted chocolatier across multiple platforms, I don't expect development on a new stardew valley game to progress quickly at all. I would expect half life 3 like timelines.

That sounds to me like "ain't gonna happen mate but I don't want to upset you".

Which I'm kinda happy about. All the updates to stardew have been free and I want more. More. MORE.

I think it might happen in 10, 15, 20 years... but not any sooner than that.

I totally get why he prefers to just update SDV.

He is already rich from the original game. He loves expanding on it. People love him for the additional content.

So there is not a huge incentive for him to not just do exactly what he likes and expand SDV indefinitely 😄

Rebuilding from code up instead of continuously adding to an overburdened foundation, I don't know why he'd want to start fresh at all. And he can't just rebuild and re release because the "mod scene"would pitch a fit

No one in the comments read even just the post body, much less the tldr in the article, or any of the article at all...

I came here from Reddit where we argued about headlines... What's an "article"?

SDV2? Eat my purple polka dotted shorts.

How about he add multiplayer to mobile already so I can play with my family without having to break out the laptops or steam links.

For context. Eric was on Tiger Belly and offhandedly mentioned he COULD make a Stardew Valley 2, not that he ever will.

Man I should've read through the comments before I made a reply comment to another person, I could've added a source for every one of my "games will complain about X if a sequel is released" just from the comments here.

I want him to stop because he keeps breaking the mods that I need to make this game how I want it. I haven't played anything past 1.4 or 1.5 because the update broke one of my favourite mods and I can no longer enjoy the game the way I did for years.

Work on Haunted Chocolatier or make Stardew Valley 2 so I can pick up the pieces and finish this fucking game. Otherwise I just can't fucking play without immense fear that a really important mod will break again at some point. Literally the opposite of a chill time.

Edit: I'm mentally ill, if that wasn't clear. I don't expect him to stop, I just want him to. Don't care if that's unpopular.

I didn't downvote you for your opinion, but I'm curious: what mods are more important to you than the updates Concerned Ape added to the game?
- Yeah these mods sound like they're worth my time
If you play on Steam, here's two threads on how to stop it from auto-updating.
One
Two
I suggest reading all the comments and not just the original post because they mention multiple ways and complications to it. They are both pretty short threads.
- That's awesome, thank you, but the damage is already done and the mods are already broken. I am mostly interested now in hearing that it's done being updated so that I can go through it at my own pace with all of the content it will ever have and QoL and visual mods that still work. I appreciate you though.
Dare I ask what kind of mod you're talking about?
- Apparently they don't want to specify which ones, for some reason.

I literally just bought the game so he better fucking not.

Edit: Jesus, lol; it was sarcasm XD