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selfawareMammal | 2 months ago

How much money does he have in order to make such a big donation? Has stardew valley made that much?

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jasongill|2 months ago

Stardew Valley is in the top 5 selling indie games of all time, with 50 million units sold. It's owned and run entirely by one person (the donor in OP's link) - he ended his relationship with a (small) games publisher a few years ago, and runs everything himself.

big_toast|2 months ago

Additionally there is a concert series that's quite good and other merchandise.

throwaway638637|2 months ago

Does this mean he does the mobile games himself now? I remember he had outsourced those for a while.

doug_life|2 months ago

“In Feb. 2024, Stardew Valley reached 30 million copies sold, and if we assume each copy sold for $15, that means that the game could have generated a revenue of $450 million. A modest 10 percent profit margin puts ConcernedApe’s earnings at $45 million, a number that is likely to increase in the future.” Source: https://dotesports.com/stardew-valley/news/how-much-money-di...

benoau|2 months ago

TBH the profit margin on this game is probably closer to 100% than 10%, it was a solo-dev game so never much overhead, I think one guy was hired to work on it.

pwdisswordfishy|2 months ago

Why would 1 unit of this game have a "profit margin" of 10%? It's a video game. He's not selling canned goods.

SXX|2 months ago

There are regional pricing and sales. Good chunk of those 30 millions sold way below US price. He certainly earned what you say though.

rvnx|2 months ago

Half a billion USD (40M+ units sold), so 125K USD to have the core engine of your product be actively maintained by an expert for the price of +/- one developer is a very good deal

clejack|2 months ago

Stardew valley was apparently solo developed, and if Google is accurate it has sold over 40 million copies. Even if he sold it for a dollar, the dev would be very successful by most standards.

giancarlostoro|2 months ago

It was a labor of love by a single developer. Assuming he never really hired that many more people, he can probably afford it.

cdelsolar|2 months ago

Solo developer who’s sold millions of it, yeah I think so