Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game
HelluvaKick@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIdk Stardew Valley is a passion project if I’ve ever seen one. Sure, concernedape is making extraordinary profits, but it has to feel way better to have a decent size of the planet’s population playing and connecting with the project they poured their heart and soul into.
duchess@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
It‘s a passion project alright, but we won‘t see many games if only those are getting done.
itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If there were 100x less games but they all had the passion of stardew behind them I think we’d come out ahead
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Less AAA trash fires and better access to actual passion projects because they aren’t being drowned in a sea of mediocrity?
This is an absolute win on all sides
duchess@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Passion projects like Stardew where the devs get paid nothing for years? That’s not sustainable.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I buy things in early access for just such a reason. If it looks like something I’ll like, I’ll buy it early to support development. If it’s great then great. If it falls through then I’m out a bad investment of like, $10.
I’ve got probably a hundred indie games in my library that I’ve supported in exactly such a fashion, from raw pre-alpha to 1.0 release to post-release content update or dlc. They aren’t all winners. But many of them were worth the cost of investment and then some.