{"id":1295459,"date":"2026-04-03T06:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uTFWB8SsfsTs2dccKcxEEH"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:18:17","slug":"eric-barone-says-he-doesnt-get-paid-for-stardew-valley-collabs-and-thats-the-way-he-likes-it-i-wouldnt-want-to-make-money-from-a-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/eric-barone-says-he-doesnt-get-paid-for-stardew-valley-collabs-and-thats-the-way-he-likes-it-i-wouldnt-want-to-make-money-from-a-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Barone says he doesn&#8217;t get paid for Stardew Valley collabs, and that&#8217;s the way he likes it: &#8216;I wouldn&#8217;t want to make money from a collaboration&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>We learned earlier today that Stardew Valley and Infinity Nikki are <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/adventure\/stardew-valley-is-making-an-incredibly-rare-collaboration-appearance-in-a-cosy-gacha-game-of-all-places\/\">teaming up for a collaboration<\/a> of some sort that&#8217;s set to land on September 1\u2014a crossover that PC Gamer&#8217;s Infinity Nikki superfan Mollie Taylor as &#8220;surprising,&#8221; because &#8220;Stardew Valley doesn&#8217;t do this sort of thing very often.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A little while later, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone took to X to say that while such crossovers are a relative rarity, it&#8217;s something he likes to do now and then\u2014but not for the money.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1055px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:38.10%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"L3NpozPgyrSBbbeafY56cW\" name=\"eric2\" alt=\"There have been a few collaborations between Stardew Valley and other games over the years. To be clear, i never receive any money from these collabs. I've only done them because I was a fan of the other games, or because I genuinely thought the players would like it.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/eric-barone-says-he-doesnt-get-paid-for-stardew-valley-collabs-and-thats-the-way-he-likes-it-i-wouldnt-want-to-make-money-from-a-collaboration.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1055\" height=\"402\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Eric Barone (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;There have been a few collaborations between Stardew Valley and other games over the years,&#8221; Barone <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ConcernedApe\/status\/1958574815495037251\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;To be clear, I never receive any money from these collabs. I&#8217;ve only done them because I was a fan of the other games, or because I genuinely thought the players would like it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barone also said that all his past collaborations, like the addition of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/card-games\/balatro-adds-new-card-backs-from-stardew-valley-cyberpunk-2077-slay-the-spire-and-binding-of-isaac-and-theyre-all-free\/\">Stardew Valley card backs to Balatro<\/a> in 2024, have been one-way affairs, with a single exception: The &#8220;legendary indie game&#8221; Terraria, which\u2014as Mollie noted\u2014hooked up with Stardew Valley for a collaboration in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ConcernedApe\/status\/1958584766850375682\" target=\"_blank\">It was great<\/a>,&#8221; Barone said in reply to one of his followers. &#8220;I love Terraria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Responding to others who said he should take the collab cashola and not feel bad about it, Barone said bluntly that he&#8217;s &#8220;<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ConcernedApe\/status\/1958580224423338082\" target=\"_blank\">made enough<\/a> from sales of [Stardew Valley],&#8221; and isn&#8217;t after more: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t want to make money from a collaboration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ConcernedApe\/status\/1958579839444951296\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1110px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:52.07%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"3Nf4HubUSN9sp6NFGZkQdW\" name=\"eric1\" alt=\"It's okay, I wouldn't want to make money from a collaboration\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/eric-barone-says-he-doesnt-get-paid-for-stardew-valley-collabs-and-thats-the-way-he-likes-it-i-wouldnt-want-to-make-money-from-a-collaboration-1.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1110\" height=\"578\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Eric Barone (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under just about any other circumstances, I would be screaming\u2014psychically, at least\u2014<em>I don&#8217;t buy i<\/em>t from the bottom of my cold, cynical heart. But nobody does wholesome quite like Eric Barone, and if he says he doesn&#8217;t want any more money, well, okay. (And with Stardew Valley now standing at north of 35 million copies sold, I will also buy that Barone doesn&#8217;t really need any bonus collab cash.)<\/p>\n<p>And yes, Barone also gave a nod to his next game, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/haunted-chocolatier\/\">Haunted Chocolatier<\/a>, which he recently said he&#8217;s now fully committed to after years of being sidetracked by Stardew. &#8220;Working on it,&#8221; he <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ConcernedApe\/status\/1958584063473983697\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re looking forward to it. And I will be VERY happy to share it with everyone when it&#8217;s finished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/life-sim\/eric-barone-says-he-doesnt-get-paid-for-stardew-valley-collabs-and-thats-the-way-he-likes-it-i-wouldnt-want-to-make-money-from-a-collaboration\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learned earlier today that Stardew Valley and Infinity Nikki are teaming up for a collaboration of some sort that&#8217;s set to land on September 1\u2014a crossover that PC Gamer&#8217;s Infinity Nikki superfan Mollie Taylor as &#8220;surprising,&#8221; because &#8220;Stardew Valley doesn&#8217;t do this sort of thing very often.&#8221; A little while later, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone took to X to say that while such crossovers are a relative rarity, it&#8217;s something he likes to do now and then\u2014but not for the money. (Image credit: Eric Barone (Twitter)) &#8220;There have been a few collaborations between Stardew Valley and other games over the years,&#8221; Barone wrote. &#8220;To be clear, I never receive any money from these collabs. 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