Eric Barone

You're right, it is my game and I ultimately take full responsibility for the delay. I hate to make excuses but there were many things outside of my control that lead to this. I have not forgotten about the mobile update, in fact I think about it every day and it causes me a huge amount of grief. I want the update to come out more than anyone. It would be a huge relief to me if the update was ready and was released. I have been working on the new game because I don't have the skills or knowledge to be able to do a mobile port. I've never done any of the ports for stardew valley, I'm not a porting guy, I don't have any experience with that. So I've always relied on other people to do that. If I could throw more money at the problem to make it go faster, I would. Programming doesn't always work like that, especially with a game as nebulously coded as Stardew Valley, which only a few people on the planet have any familiarity with. I've said repeatedly that I would let everyone know if I had any more meaningful information about the update, and otherwise they should assume that It's still in progress. That is still the case, nothing has changed. It's not pleasant to keep tweeting "It's in progress" over and over, and read the responses. Sure, most people are understanding and supportive, but there's also people who are very angry, or even worse, saying things like "I've lost all faith in ConcernedApe", which does hurt because I've worked really hard for the past 10 years to build up goodwill with the community by providing as much support to players as I possibly could as one man. Including spending almost all my time for the past 6 years on free updates that I could've released as paid DLC. So it's really sad to see all that flushed down the toilet because of a delayed mobile update that is the result of factors largely outside of my control. It is demoralizing and part of why I don't get on twitter every week to tweet "It's still in progress, I'm sorry". I fully admit that I have not been as communicative as I should be, and that the delay for the mobile update is egregious and ridiculous. I admit that, and I understand if you are disgusted with me as a developer and don't ever give me another chance. I wish I could be more open about the reasons why the port has been delayed, but I don't think I am legally able to do that. So all I can do is accept the responsibility for this and do my best to bring the update as soon as possible. There's nothing else I can do at this point.

Forgot about that tweet! What I meant to say is that I wouldn't be putting any "real life" references in the game. I wanted Stardew Valley to be an escape. But that isn't to say that Stardew wouldn't spawn many great memes of its own! I enjoy the Stardew memes