Some idle musing about the nature of morality in sandbox games has spiraled out of control. Following reports claiming that Stardew Valley may soon let players divorce or cheat on their in-game spouses, Eric Barone has embarked upon a social media blitz to say no, that's not actually happening, and asking everyone to please calm down about it. Barone mused on the topic of Stardew infidelity in a wide-ranging new interview with Game Informer, saying that some players have expressed a desire to marry Caroline, Robin, or Demetrius—but noting that in order to do so they'd have to break up families in the town. Barone said he's against that "on a moral level," but then went on to say that people should be able to do bad things in sandbox games—and suffer appropriate consequences for their actions. "I would be open to doing something like that, but I wouldn’t baby people about it," Barone said. "There would be very serious consequences." In the context of Stardew Valley, though, he added that he also feels like such things might be "too real," and that "maybe Stardew Valley is supposed to be, to some degree, an escape from those kinds of things." That quote caused a bit of a stir, to put it mildly, and Barone has been working hard on social media to correct the record. "I'm not going to actually do this," he wrote in response to one report on the misquote. "I was just talking theoretically, that if I WERE then I wouldn't just make it some consequence-free thing, everyone would hate you, there would be severe consequences for your moral failures. "If you're making a sandbox game I think it's interesting to allow people to do things, even bad things. But there should be consequences. That teaches you a life lesson. If you just get away with it or everyone is chill with it, that would be bad." Some of the uproar may have been sparked by a machine translation gone really wrong. Japanese gaming site Automaton covered the GI interview, and when its translation was flipped