- cross-posted to:
- gaming@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- gaming@beehaw.org
Four days until release! Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available on 4th September.
Release times:
7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JSTGame price:
USD $19.99 | EUR €19.99 | JPY ¥2300
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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.
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.
Unfortunately AAA studios have a long rat tail of unproductive execs and managers that take a huge pay cut and investors need to be happy too so their games will soon cost $100.
Comparing a 2D sprite-based Unity sidescroller, made by 4 dudes, to something like Death Stranding is not exactly fair.
True. The 2D sprite-based Unity sidescroller will actually be fun.
Depends on what basis one is comparing it.
They are very different scales of game, but they both 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 not what publishers hope its worth - its what players percieve it is 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 an $80 game it’s not their fault - it’s your fault for not doing enough to justify the price tag.
My message to studios isn’t “your games should all be $20” (although some of them 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.
No Australian pricing details
Believe it or not, right to gaol.
no matter how many times I see it, that’s still a wild spelling of that word and shouldn’t be allowed. in fact you should go to jail for it. fucking ghoti-ass spelling.
gaol has the best jraphics.
From experience… Hmmmm $120 take it or leave it.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
That’s basically giving it away. I guess they can very well expect to make the money back in volume.
This is how to do it
Wow! Between BG3, CO:E33, and Slik Song, all the AAA lies are falling away. They don’t have to cost the user an arm and a leg, they can be beautiful works of art and love from small(ish) teams, and they can be an experience that is so rich in player choice it’s practically unique and highly replayable.
Release date announced? It’s this week?!
How is it possible you missed it? The internet exploded when they published the release date trailer, it’s coming out in 3 days!
Lol I dunno. This is the first I’ve heard of it. I’ve been on Lemmy all week too!
Yep, if I haven’t been hallucinating the past week
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.
If they’re only pricing it $20, how do explain the €100 I’m about to spend on it???
I bought hallow knight 3 times. Seems Silk Song will be the same.
Hollow Knight was only $15 and got a lot of free DLC. The developers considered it a huge success.
The most overhyped game I’ve seen over the past year, they’re pushing the PR so damn hard.
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 me 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 after 7 years of work, they’re releasing their sequel game to a beloved by many indie hit for $20. In 2025. We shouldn’t be annoyed at them.
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.
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.
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.
Nice. Now post a link to the game you made that was this well received and loved.
Just say Hollow Knight was too hard for you. It’s OK.
There’s no need for the other person to yuck anyone’s yum, but this argument sucks too, in all of its forms.
I disagree. Jerks should be met with jerky behavior.
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?
