You didn't sell your soul. You paid them to take your soul.

The character leaves Joja to be a farmer just to be more affiliated with them than ever lol.

This path actually isnt as bad as I imagined, but I think I'll stick to my apples-with-arms buddies.

*gives thousands of Gold coins *Gets a soda machine that spits soda for Free "Worth It"

I wanted to see things turn really dark if you joined them. First, they destroy the community center for their warehouse. Their warehouse increases productivity enough where prices can be substantially lowered. Pierre can't keep up, and the townsfolk flock to Joja for their everyday goods. Next season, you wake up to find out Pierre can no longer keep a roof over his head, and he begs you for donations, as this was his way of life. If you refuse, Pierre, Caroline and Abagail will now be living next to Linus in a large tent near the top of the town. They don't hate you, but they're much more solemn and quiet now, not really looking forward to anything more in the future, knowing their best days are probably behind them. Then, as a final nail in the coffin.... Morris buys out Pierre's old place, revitalizes and enlarges it a bit, and it becomes Morris' abode. On the "plus" side, Morris is now a friendable character, and you have 4 friendship points with him by default at this point.

Homer sold his soul For a donut, You sold yours for a soda.

I think the dev's reasoning behind creating this method of doing things was to show you how much more engaging and fun it is to work hard on rebuilding a community centre and knowing you're benefitting the villagers by rebuilding the place, a sorta challenging but feel-good method (plus the junimos are adorable!) the joja way is basically like showing the corporate side to things, and reminding you of why your character left the company in the first place: you pay in tons of money and are left feeling unsatisfied and given a useless reward in return. I'm gonna create a second character and create an evil route just for the achievement tho

I learned my lesson with Undertale. Will never again put curiosity over my morals.

Makes sense, really. Completing the bundles takes a lot of time and forces you to explore and try out all the aspects of the game. On the other hand, it's fairly easy to drum up lots of cash quickly. Taking the quick easy way gives you a far less satisfying reward.

my pond is full of joja sodas anyway! no need for a machine

well then I will continue working with the aliens

..did you give your character evil red eyes on purpose? .. yeah...of course you did

SODA MACHINE!? NO WAY! Well, that's what happens when you join EA-- er, I mean Joja

Well, he's not wrong-- Pelican Town's infrastructure is a pile of hot garbage. I'm pretty sure if you weren't there to fix everything for everyone with your own blood, sweat, and gold, Mayor Lewis would have the place looking like Centralia within the decade. Y'all can afford to have all these festivals, but not one bake sale to save the community center? Sure, blame the kids and their TV boxes, old man, I see how it is. No wonder Joja was able to take over so easily-- and at least they've got the bus running... at all. Vote Farmer 2016.

Best home interior design ever.

I'm not going to join Joja but only 15k for that minecart track is alot more tempting then finding artifacts to complete the bundles

Thank you for showing us the terrible joys of joining to the Joja group. I always thought something fishy would be behind joining them, so that's why I never did :)! I'll take this video as a warning haha, I don't want that soda machine on my house haha :D!!!

But... free soda *for life*

this path is so sad. I wonder if it has more dialog from Pierre and Lewis.

I'd just like to point out that this ceremony honors the complete repair of the entire village. And no townspeople show up.

"The president of the company asked me to give you this exclusive gift as a way of saying 'thanks'. " *game crashed me: ..... THANKS

I always read it as jojo idk why

I feel that people give Joja Corp a bad rap. Something you need to realize about the residents of Pelican town is that they suck!! Why are there broken bridges? Why is the community center run down? Why is the Mayor so suspicious? They have carpenters, blacksmiths, access to the outside world; yet for some reason they're unable to repair a single bridge or upkeep one single building? And what do they do instead? They make one single person, an outsider, do ALL of the work. And even you don't really 'do' it. You leave it to some Junimos to do the actual dirty work... Joja Corp provide a service to help repair communities. Naturally it costs money and as stated; Pelican Town is more of a trial run to see how things go and whether they should bother helping out other villages. The community center was unused and abandoned up until the player arrived, and Joja corp were already there and had plans on refurbishing the center before you arrived too. The test was successful, and Joja corp were able to repair the village. Something the lazy villagers may have never done, and didn't do even when you decide not to go down the Joja path. And what's more, none of the villages decided to help with funding either. It was left entirely up to you. As for the cola machine; yeah it's not much for spending all that hard earned money. But bear in mind that each cola can sell for 20g. That's 20g extra per day you wouldn't normally be able to make. That adds up over time. And what does the trophy do? Nothing. It gives you nothing. And the reward bundles? They're not worth much. The only decent thing is the Crystalarium, and you STILL had to pay 25,000g for that. In fact, the bundles costed you 42500g; around 1/3 of the money you'd cash out to Joja Corp for the monetary ones alone. The rest of the bundle rewards are garbage, and thinks you could easily obtain for free if you work for it, and often cost you more time than the rewards are worth. Time is money! Overall; whether Joja is a big money grabbing capitalist empire or not, that doesn't take away from the fact that regardless of if you side with the village or Joja, the villages suck. If anyone, you should dislike the villagers for doing all the work and causing Joja Corp to notice their laziness and have to intervene. They don't even reward you for the bundles, the Junimos do.

The soda sells for 1g and everybody HATES it as a gift except Sam who sorta likes it ironically. Best item in the game hands down.

Thanks for slaking my curiosity - now I won't have to do it myself! Huh. I've never thanked anyone for spoilers before. Weird...

Fixing a small towns shitty infrastructure is evil.

i once bought the joja shit. but it felt so bad that i restarted thwhole game and swore that i would never join joja

honestly, this is the good ending imo. pierre and lewis are sucking pelican town dry, giving nothing in return. if it wasn't for LITERAL MAGIC the town would have fun itself into the ground. Joja not only improved the town through hard work, but their success here opens the door for them to improve other communities. go joja!

Really, one route is you sellout, destroy the community gathering place (for all ages, the pub doesn't count), and pay a megacorp to hire a bunch of trained, skilled professionals to go do all the mining, monster-fighting, and other shit to improve the local communities' condition. The other route, you tell the megacorp guy to fuck off by having Pierre punch him through a fucking ceiling, then you get the spend much of the game listening to alien-looking spirits and appeasing them to repair the community center by travelling the local countryside gathering random shit and risking your life delving into the mines and fighting monsters. So one route, is cynical and soulless, and the other is dangerous and bat-shit insane, so take your pick.

The actual bundles aren't that hard as long as you start as soon as possible, know what to look out for, and don't throw those things away. Honestly the most difficult part for me was the fishing but even though I suck at fishing I was able to complete the fish tank first (with a little help from the merchant cart to buy out of season fish). It's definitely a lot more fun to collect stuff rather than pay for everything.

Ok you convinced me, I'll sell my soul to joja cola, no frickin way I'm gonna do all those missions in the community center.

My fist playthrough of Stardew Valley I was all about the money... so i went the joja route. I have no regrets.

this is way easier than doing community bundles... I have earned more than 500.000 by the first winter so could buy all those projects if I had gone for that. But I prefer the bundles, is more engaging.

Joining Joja: measly 25g a day Rebuilding the Community Centre: Free machines that help out on your farm, notably a free Crystalarium. Rebuilding the Community Centre and having Pierre launch Morris into space: Priceless

You sacrificed yourself for us...

I've done this a couple of times. And it takes the fun out of the community center

Even though it was for video sake, you still lost your soul to Joja Mart...

Oh my God as soon as I saw the community centre with Joja all over it I was like OMG NOOOOO

1:27 you say "they" when this game was made by one guy

I hate joja BUT I am too goddamn lazy to collect all those items.

Doing this gets you out of fishing though, almost worth it IMO

I realize that by joining Joja you are essentially selling out to "the man", if you will. I personally think that everyone should play the game however they want. If you want to make the game more money based, then join Joja. If you want to make your game about farming and scavenging, then go ahead and finish the community center. I'll openly admit I joined Joja, only because I wanted my game to progress further (getting the bus running, etc). I was in to my THIRD year before I gave up on collecting stuff for the rewards in the community center. Like most people, I absolutely HATE fishing in Stardew Valley. They make it needlessly frustrating. After a while I made it a point to go back into my "finished" game and MAKE myself learn to fish. I'm on year 7 and I still haven't collected even half of the fish that was required for the reward. I also realize that I could have purchased many of the fish from the traveling merchant during my original play through. Isn't that also considered "bad" to use *gasp* MONEY to progress further? lol.

hell 135000 gold for every unlock over having to go through every season of the year properly definetly seems worth it to me!

I got married, got a kid, and covered the house in Joja wallpaper to teach him the real values of life.

Alternate title: How to ruin your save file.

"Hello, I'm Pedquin, I went through this so YOU don't have to." Nice reference near the end. Have a thumb up from me. (y)

the funniest part is that you escape being a cog in a corporate machine, to live you life of being a cog in a corporate machine, except without the paycheck this time...

deadass got a amazon ad before this, perfection

the joja reward is simply not having to egg hunt to unlock things, and merely pay a cash lump sum. The rewards are much less for a good reason, do you want convenience or reward? this is the players choice in play style.

I first want to say, thank you for going through this. I next want to tell you, Bwahahahaha, the dev of this game is a total troll.

hope to see the complete community center quest look like .

i'm from the past #illuminati

"I went through this so that you didn't have to" Try saying that to all of the completionists who own Steam (as far as I know of) since there's an achievement for that-

I wonder how Pierre and Lewis felt. Lewis loved that center, and Pierre said if anyone else joined he'd have to close down (I think)

I joined Joja out of laziness. I'm cool.

I don't want this achievement!

So if you Go this side you can’t get the railroad area Well that sucks

But we still have to sell our soul to get the achievement

Why would anyone support Joja. You escaped the city life (AND JOJA) to live a peaceful life. Supporting Joja makes no sense to me.

thanks for taking the time to do this :D very interesting video indeed . Like you said nobody really wants to go that path :D

aaaw how cute. one guys bad ending is another guys good ending. this isn't exactly genocidal. But me spending every other whole day just fishing and all the other days just mining, that is genocide on fishes and bats!

I'm too lazy to collect those items, so yeah, I've sold my soul to the devil too and have a free soda machine.

This makes me wanna complete the bundles even more!

Thank you for your sacrifice.

Morris reminds me of the villain from Lazy Town

Big thanks for uploading this! I really didn't want to do it, but curiosity still made me want to know. :-D

When i first started the game, after receiving a quest of gifting someone, i randomly gave a joja cola i just picked up to Sam-the person nearest to me. Somehow I managed to choose the only person in this town who likes joja cola

You can get plenty of Joja Cola from the pond in your yard more than just 1 a day

Wow I was always curious.. Thank you so much.. *Liked*

THIS IS WHY, IT'S BETTER TO LET DEM CUTE JUMINOS FIX EVERYTHING. :333

Lol I love how he has spooky music, Pierre for the win

Okay, quick question. What happens if you are married to Abigail (who is completely against Joja) and go the Joja way? Is she mad or does she ignore it?

Pedguin is sellout confirmed

Is that WatchMojo ????

Hahahaha, awesome video. Yeah, leaving Joja corp's grey office and then NOT finding the real meaning of life like your grandpappy wanted you to was something I never planned on doing. Thank you for running through it yourself to save us all the effort. Love the joja decorated house too. Hilarous.

I didnt know this, can i turn it back?

WatchJoja

Is it considered ironic when a gamer thinks the soda machine dispensing free sodas daily is bad?

I finally completed the CC. In Fall of Year 3. After that, here is the run down: "I Will Never do the CC again". CC pros *. Pierre is open Wednesdays. CC cons * You get trash rewards. They are not special or rare. (Okay, the gem duplicator is kinda kewl, but you can craft them, or get them from the museum rewards). * It takes ages to get the greenhouse. * Joja Mart is closed. FOREVER * Shane gets laid off. He is too much of a drunkard as-is. Don't add fuel to the fire. * Cashier lady gets laid off * Truck driver lives the rest of his life in the truck.... * Truck driver is laid off. * Some lame trophy * Pierre is still a dick who stops selling at 5PM Joja Pros * Faster Greenhouse * Joja doesn't close down * Joja discounts * No lay offs! * Shop after 5PM!!! Joja Cons * some lame soda machine, or kewl if that's your kinda thing

NOOOOOO!!!! I worked so hard on my world right,and I joined Joan without knowing and I am watching this a few minutes after I joined 😭😭😭😭

I really don't understand why everyone hates the Joja route. Sure, doing the bundles feels more rewarding, but the process of acquiring all those items is a 'little' frustrating.The town gets fixed either way. I don't care about Lewis' nostalgic feelings towards the old building, the town needs fixing, and Lewis does not seem up to the task. I don't care about Joja getting a promotion either."But what about poooor Pierre?". Yeah, poor guy, let's help the town by making them buy expensive stuff from Pierre rather using cheaper products for Joja (the villagers point out that buying products from Joja is cheaper). And really, if Pierre can't compete with a different shop - that's his problem. Support the underdog, just because he's the underdog? If you want to help their family out so badly, just marry Abigail. And really, the community center route causes Shane to lose his job (and probably other unnamed employees), while the Joja route just makes it harder for Pierre to run his business. I mean, it's business, after all, be ready for competition.Still, fuck the soda machine.

EVIL JOOOOJAAAAAA

I’m so glad I did the bundles instead of buying it all, it’s FAR more rewarding and the cutscene with Pierre and Morris is pretty damn good

10/10 would sell my soul to Joja. Joja op

should i buy this game?

You do realize there is no "They?" this was all done by one guy.

I mean..well, dont you know how hard it is to work and get all those stuff for the bundles?! I have to wait till next year to get a greenhouse, this route can save that, now i can make that happen quicker :/

Selling your soul for a daily free JoJo cola? Worth it.

but ummm people.. do you guys realize we used to work for Joja.. we left our job at joja HQ to move to pelican town to escape.. and here comes a joja mart trying to make a monopoly and take over.. the right ending is to turn down the membership and defeat Joja!!

If you read this comment, I hope you have a lovely day! :)

i'm genuinly surprised that DF didn't make this

I say the benefit of joining outweigh the cons, you get the bus running, bridges repaired, and you just have to pay cash or your taxes to get everything running smoothly.

666k views. Truly the evil choice.

That's not evil. That's freedom. That's Capitalism. That's American. It's the American Dream!

you sold your soul FOR A FRICKING SODA MACHINE ?

Fuck it, I'm going with Joja.

Lol nice video. Man this concerned ape guy has really done lot of hardwork for this game. And he is selling this game for a steal price. Don't you think that he should have sold this game for at least $20-$30? Those who haven't played this game can buy it from steam store. Believe me you will get a experience which is much more worthwhile than most of the expensive games out there.

i would sell my soul for a soda machine not

first time player, actually wanna this in the first round, those bundle kinda intimidate me, because I dont know how anything works, money, on the other hand, is a bit easier to take care off because it's just the money no special items.

I like how he said "Juminos" instead of Junimos, their real name.