Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  and they’re going to prove the same point stardew did, by selling multiple copies to the same people on different platforms and blowing any sales projections they might have made out of the water, that video games right now are ridiculously overpriced.

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• jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Release date announced? It’s this week?!

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  • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Yep, if I haven’t been hallucinating the past week

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• simple@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We don't deserve team cherry. They could've easily sold it for $40 and everybody would have bought it, but they mentioned before that they wanted their games to be affordable for more people to play.

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• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Take note AAA studios - this is how you do it.

  With this pricing, Silksong may be the only game this year that I’ll actually purchase on release day.

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unfortunately AAA studios have a long rat tail of unproductive execs and managers that take a huge pay cut so their games will soon cost $100.

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  • Lanusensei87@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Comparing a 2D sprite-based Unity sidescroller, made by 4 dudes, to something like Death Stranding is not exactly fair.

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    • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      True. The 2D sprite-based Unity sidescroller will actually be fun.

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    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Depends on what basis one is comparing it.

      They are very different kinds of game, but they have to exist within the same economic realities.

      Big studios seem to be working on the basis that just because they spend millions on a game, the game automatically becomes worth whatever price tag they want to slap on it - as if it’s a natural law that pumping in more money should directly translate to more revenue, without fail.

      But it turns out the value of a game is what players perceive it to be worth, not what publishers hope its worth.

      So it’s no surprise that indie games with amazing price-to-value ratios are seeing a surge, while big studios are struggling and don’t seem to have any ability to understand why their business model isn’t working.

      Publishers are all shocked pikachu when their big budget games fall flat, but If people don’t want to buy your $80 game it’s not their fault - it’s your fault for not doing enough to justify the price tag.

      So my message to studios isn’t “your games should be $20” (although sometimes they should) it’s “you should provide value that matches the price tag” - and Silksong over here just laid down the gauntlet as a game which looks set to deliver tonnes of value for relatively little cost.

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• ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No Australian pricing details

  Believe it or not, right to gaol.

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    no matter how many times I see it, that’s still a wild fucking spelling and shouldn’t be allowed. in fact you should go to jail for it. fucking ghoti-ass spelling.

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    • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      gaol has the best jraphics.

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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t really like games like this (I know Hollow Knight is a masterpiece if you do) but I’d be tempted to buy it for $20 just to support the studio

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  • fuzzywombat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah. Similar sentiment here. For me, spending $20 is my special way of flipping the bird at Nintendo and every other greedy AAA studios for wanting to jack up the price of games.

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  • Sabin10@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m in the same boat. Hollow knight never clicked for me but I get what people like about it. Silksong looks like hollow knight with better combat though so that will make it more enjoyable for me…probably.

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    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Basically my take. The lore and art take Hollow Knight over the top to Goat status, but it does not dethrone Blasphemous 2 for me… I’m not entirely sure anything can.

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  • killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    im a huge metroidvania fan, but i have yet to play hollow knight. i know this studio deserves everything it gets so for $20 ill be getting it day 1. i know ill be playing both at some point down the line

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  • itkovian@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same. Hollow Knight’s combat and platforming simply didn’t click. But, the atmosphere of that game is simply impeccable. That, to me, makes Hollow Knight an amazing video game, just one not for me.

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hollow Knight was only $15 and got a lot of free DLC. The developers considered it a huge success.

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• Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If they’re only pricing it $20, how do explain the €100 I’m about to spend on it???

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• Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I bought hallow knight 3 times. Seems Silk Song will be the same.

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• Korkki@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s basically giving it away. I guess they can very well expect to make the money back in volume.

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• FreddyNO@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is how to do it

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• tomiant@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The most overhyped game I’ve seen over the past year, they’re pushing the PR so damn hard.

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  • caseofthematts@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not their fault way too many people were so obsessed with their game that they made daily shitposts about it.

    Honestly I was annoyed by all of the Silksong stuff as well over the years, and perhaps it will be overhyped but after watching the trailer I feel like I can at least say Team Cherry put in the work that got my excited, despite all the internets noise. And why shouldn’t they try to get people to buy their game with good PR?

    The team is 3 or 4 people, and they’re releasing their sequel game to a beloved by many indie hit for $20. In 2025. We shouldn’t be annoyed at them.

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think if you can overhype a game to the point where clueless people like tomiant@programming.dev are inventing PR, by not saying anything, that’s a pretty big achievement.

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What PR? The only PR Team Cherry did was make and release a damned good Metroidvania.

    Since then, and uptil now, it’s mostly been silence.

    Weird, huh, how fans can get excited to play a good game?

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  • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why “over”? Everybody I know is hyped, but they are in love with hollow Knight, so it’s expected. I don’t see reasons to believe the hype is too high.

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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just say Hollow Knight was too hard for you. It’s OK.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s no need for the other person to yuck anyone’s yum, but this argument sucks too, in all of its forms.

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  • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nice. Now post a link to the game you made that was this well received and loved.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t yuck someone’s yum. Thinking something tastes like shit does not mean you are welcome to take a dump in someone else’s porridge.

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