ARE WE GETTING A 5 STARS ?!?! I need to know what will it be ?! Is this related to housing update and gardening ?? It have to be !!!! There will be plushies of the JUMINOS or like a way to have them work for us
I do wonder though if Concernedape worked on a 5 stars outfits like what kind of clothes would it be. Or if we’re getting Juminos related stuff since they acts as the mascots
my bet is more on junimo themed things, maybe some furniture/plushies for the housing update?
i cant picture concernedape designing full on clothes (as much as i love bro as a dev)/infold giving that much freedom to a collab either xD
im very curious though- maybe we'll get a whole ass junimo suit/momo outfit like the panda one lol! a farmers fit would definitely be cute af though too
._. this is like one of the things i never expected would happen because it never crossed my mind. i love both games though, so i'm excited to see what they will do.
It’s so random I legit don’t even see what could happen but I’m so curious and happy!!! Stardew valley is such an amazing game and if my money goes to concernedape pocket I’m fine this man is so kind and cool!!!
You don’t need to look it up on twitter it was posted on the official website. It’s called a First look at the home feature. I never thought to connect it with stardew but it makes sense.
For future reference, infinity Nikki has official pages on all of the big social medias, including Reddit. They also have their own website. You can check these at any time.
I’n curious how they’ll make this work (because the pixel art doesn’t really match the current style of the game). In any case, these are my two favourite games so I am stoked!
It's implied by the tiktok trailer that characters/creatures from Stardew are coming into Miraland like with the fairytale quest or the panda event. They'll just have to be drawn in Nikki's style, I don't think that's too hard. Junimos just look like little apples after all 😅
The number of times i have rage quit the kart game is embarrassing lmao, and to do it in nikki??? i can barely keep the bike from flying off the path, it wouldn't end well for me XD
NGL my initial reaction is scepticism/mild disappointment. It feels really antithetical to Eric Barone's (Concerned Ape) whole ethos which is such a monumental part of *why* people love Stardew so intensely. But I don't know what the collab looks like so I suppose I should hold off on making big judgements until we know more.
E: because multiple people have made similar arguments: I'm not talking about IN's reputation but the basis of it being a gacha vs CA's completely anticapitalistic pov.
A collab like this wouldn't happen in under 3 months. I dare say it might have been in talks before 1.5. Maybe around the delay of home system. Maybe even at release.
A comparison; Reverse1999 collab with Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed takes about 9 months from the first announcement to the release.
IN has been a gatcha game from day one. The entire franchise is a gacha game. I don’t think it has anything to do with their reputation after 1.5. Surely he knew that when he agreed to the collab.
CA is just a guy, I think it's weird and parasocial how the Stardew Valley fandom pedestalises him. Has he ever even gone on record about himself or Stardew Valley being anti-capitalist? Don't hold high expectations for people you don't know, generally speaking
If it makes you feel better, the collab money from Paper is probably going to go towards development of Haunted Chocolatier or something
Stardew isnt explicitly anti capitalism either. its more pro nature vs pro corporate which youre allowed to take sides in the Community Center story quest (you can painstakingly look for stuff or you can pay the bundles off in the quest)
It's also weird to shake your fist at him for collabing with the predatory, money grabbing game that we all play. People seem to be holding him to a standard that they don't even hold themselves to.
It's a sentiment that exists for IN but not LN (I'm not really involved in SN communities so I wouldn't know) that people seem to forget that they willingly downloaded a gacha game and rail against the game for being what it's been since its core conception. Don't get me wrong, I think the practices are gross and Infold seems to have really been pushing it with the predatory strategies, but I also have to remind myself that I can either accept it for what it is while making smart financial choices for myself or uninstall and walk away.
I think that really just depends on your opinion of IN. I'm sure they contacted him and said hey we're bringing farming to our game and you're the cozy farming game guy so let's collab, and he was over the moon
It's less about IN's reputation when it comes to all their shortcomings and our frustrations and more of the matter that this game has been known to be a money grab game from the get, whereas CA has been painstakingly giving us free DLC content for years and hasn't charged us a dime outside of the initial cost of a paltry fifteen bucks.
There's a trailer on tiktok showing a junimo falling into Miraland so I'd bet on junimo stuff. Maybe a statue or plushie for our houses. I imagine they're tying it into the housing update since all of the collabs so far have had very specific updates to be included in
Stardew as the first "big" collab was totally unexpected but SDV is THE cozy game and 1.9 will bring housing (and farming?) so it makes sense, i guess. Really curious to see how they will implement it.
Ngl although infold is $ bigger $, i feel like ConcernedApe has heavier name recognition and goodwill among the global non-gacha gaming community at least...
Idk why he would drag his name through mud like this. His whole vibe -marketing- is this anti consumption talk and his audience love it. Compensation must be heavy to risk that for a gacha game
He's a solo dev who made Stardew just for fun, but it blew up into a career. He's been so incredibly humble about the experience and despite the game being almost 10 years old, he keeps putting all of his heart and soul into new updates. A lot of those updates have been big enough that other devs would have sold them as dlc, but Concerned Ape is so grateful to his player base that he's said he'd only want to do dlc if it massively changed the game in same way.
He's just a really genuine and humble guy that I think most Stardew players have a lot of respect for. To the point that a lot of players buy a copy of Stardew every time it releases on a new platform, just to give him more money for his effort.
Stardew has done other collabs before and there's tons of offical merch, but I do think this collab in particular will lead to a pretty big boost in Stardew players. Infold if a pretty big company to collab with imo. I hope his Chinese translation is up to par 😅
I feel so... Troubled. Because now with this announcement all the issues are going to be overshadowed again, like why can't I just be happy for such a fun collab? :( Especially that this is going to be music themed...
It's possible to talk about the issues and the excitement at the same time. Happy posts don't make the angry posts disappear, we always have a mix of both
Very understandable, I personally feel like a lot of people are influenced on how to feel about the game by the constant negative posts. I personally took a bit of a break from the subreddits when I notice days this is happening.
If you enjoy the game, please continue enjoying it.
It happens in a lot of gaming communitys these days. It's like we're not allowed to enjoy a game anymore sometimes. 🥲
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u/HornyJail4All Aug 20 '25
I thought this was made up but its real ??? Wild