Eric Barone says he doesn’t get paid for Stardew Valley collabs, and that’s the way he likes it: ‘I wouldn’t want to make money from a collaboration’

We learned earlier today that Stardew Valley and Infinity Nikki are teaming up for a collaboration of some sort that’s set to land on September 1—a crossover that PC Gamer’s Infinity Nikki superfan Mollie Taylor as “surprising,” because “Stardew Valley doesn’t do this sort of thing very often.”

A little while later, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone took to X to say that while such crossovers are a relative rarity, it’s something he likes to do now and then—but not for the money.

“There have been a few collaborations between Stardew Valley and other games over the years,” Barone wrote. “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.”