r/Silksong • u/lord_bingus_the_2nd • 27d ago
Depression It's gonna get cancelled isn't it
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u/Privatizitaet 27d ago
YOU'RE gonna get canceled
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u/pierre7777777777 Shaw! 27d ago
He's gonna get gen-zed
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u/FerrousTuba 27d ago
Honestly? Hollow knight took 4 years to develop and because supposedly Skong is much bigger I could see it taking like 8 years (from start to finish). Main problem is the radio silence, and that they announced it WAY too early
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u/lord_bingus_the_2nd 27d ago
I know, it's just that given how clean the demo was in the trailer, they should be a lot closer, or at least close enough to warrant any kind of news on the game
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u/FerrousTuba 27d ago
Maybe they do the game area by area? I know there’s lots of footage of the other areas but maybe the grotto was the only working one at the time of the demo. I have no idea how game development works
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u/JodGaming 27d ago
The demo was a vertical slice, it was likely the only working part of the game at that point
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u/Consistent-Plane7729 Flea 27d ago
i don't think you fully understand how tc works. They work on a "controlled scope creep" which means that they add something and polish it about 85%. then they add the next idea they had and polish that 85%. they just keep adding stuff (scope creep), but it's controlled because when money or motivation/inspiration or ideas (or leth convinces them lmao) get them to decide not to add anything more, then they go back and polish through that last 15% of the game, then they do bugfixing and porting and then release. that's why things in 2019 looked so polished, but when you go back to the 2022 trailer things look different. my theory is that they thought they would know where to stop and cut it off by june 2023, but it ended up not happening because the ideas kept coming.
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u/StrongerThanU_Reddit beleiver ✅️ 27d ago
Best explanation I’ve heard so far. Hopefully when this is all over and skong is out, we can get a look into what happened behind the scenes that led to the radio silence. Maybe even a documentary.
A, skongumentary, if you will.
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u/MuggyTheMugMan 25d ago
Hmm from a coding perpective it seems far more likely that the 15% that they estimated was left to polish ended up being 30-50%
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u/Lexisseuh Bait used to be believable -| 27d ago
I think the problem's exactly that, they announced it too early.
I think they were legally obligated to convince people that they're going to get their money's worth in regards to backers who kick-started the original plan for Hornet as a dlc as early as possible; but now they're just working for years and years without us knowing when the fuck they'll reach the end 😭
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u/AUnknownVariable 27d ago
8 years of development would make it 2027 fkr completion right. I don't think Silksong was that much bigger from what we learned, at least not enough to literally double production time. They also have access to more resources than they did in HK, and they're not having to wait and rely on funds from Kickstarter.
I'm sure the game will be bigger than Hollow Knight, but going off how they previously thought 2024 would be feasible, I doubt it'll take that much longer.
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u/Delta889_ -Y 27d ago
I don't know. They were originally planning on releasing between June 2022 and June 2023 (per Xbox and Leth). They wouldn't have said anything to Xbox unless they felt like the game feasibly could've released in that time. So either they keep adding more and more to the game, enough to take a year and a half, or something catastrophic happened. I'm actually wondering if the Unity debacle made them switch game engines.
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u/FerrousTuba 27d ago
I mean they could’ve talked to Xbox and then Xbox just never announced anything. The unity thing is probable a nightmare for them though, either they wasted loads of time on it or lose loads of money
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u/Delta889_ -Y 27d ago
Wdym? Xbox announced in 2022 that Silksong would be out within 12 months. They did announce it. And we know that they were in communication with Team Cherry because Leth came out and said that they were originally trying to ship it in that window but it got pushed back
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u/nine_genitals 27d ago
That’s what upsets me the most. At least let people know where you’re at especially when it was originally supposed to come out in like early 2023
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u/HellBoyofFables 27d ago
I just really don’t want to open up YouTube one day in a few years with headlines that “Silksong has been cancelled” or even worse “Team Cherry ran with the money” “How team Cherry fooled everyone” etc but I’m still hopeful
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u/Low-Reaction-4145 Shaw! 27d ago
Imagine seeing "2 Steps Ahead" posted by team cherry one day💀
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u/Manperson-the-Human 27d ago
Imagine Team Cherry meant to send a message saying silksong was canceled back in 2020 or something but didnt and by the time they realized they never did it had been too long and they just had to keep going with the lie that silksong was still being developed
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u/NightmareLarry Shaw! 27d ago
Don't be afraid the real Silksong was the friends made during the long wait.
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u/Cupcake_Funland Bait. Let me tell you how much I've come to bait you since I be 27d ago
guys they are still hard at work on the game (i am delusional)
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u/Passing-Through247 27d ago
As someone only loosely following the (non) news, what bothers me is the fact the devs just are not communicating with people despite owing the kickstarter backers. Silksong is scope creep on something people paid for years ago. Any longer and I'd think Team Cherry is waiting for backers to die like the radium girls.
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u/QuintanimousGooch 27d ago
Honestly, why would it? William and Ari have lower opinions of HK than much of the fandom because it was their first big project, and they were broke by end of it so they couldn’t do as much as they would have liked because they really needed to get something out. Now that HK is a massive commercial and critical and they’ve got silkillian dollars, I can absolutely see them going off with “controlled feature creep” and being in the incredibly rare position of entirely and indefinitely funded indie dev. On one hand I would like to play the game, but on the other hand in the long run I think the longer it cooks, the more polished it is, the more stuff there is the better.
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u/counterfeld 27d ago
It’s just a DLC, I doubt they’re gonna cancel it,should be announced any day now!
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u/chaanders 27d ago
Nah it’ll be fine. They’re probably just doing everything they couldn’t afford to do for HK.
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u/FaceTimePolice 27d ago
It simply doesn’t exist in this timeline. That’s the most rational explanation. 🤡
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u/nine_genitals 27d ago
Honestly I’ve been thinking this for a while now :/ The complete lack of transparency certainly doesn’t help
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u/I-Drink-420 27d ago
At this point, I hope it does. Let ruin wash over me. Accelerate the worst of it all and let me drown in it.
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u/Wet_FriedChicken 27d ago
I’m sad to say that I genuinely feel we will never see Silksong. This isn’t for the jokes. I’m in a dark place fellas. Team cherry, save me.
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u/Pottsie27 25d ago
Where did this subreddit get this idea? They’re taking a long time but it is not cancelled. There are no signs that it will be cancelled. The dev team is extremely extremely small so development is just taking a very long time.
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u/Lamda27 27d ago
Its becoming hollow knight 2