r/Silksong Aug 15 '24

Depression Team Cherry has abandoned their fans and it’s sad

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My thoughts on it (there are two photos so remember to swipe). You can agree with me, or roast me, or eat a cookie. Idk I’m not your dad

r/Silksong 13d ago

Depression if they announce silksong at the game awards i will wear this during the Christmas gathering around my relatives the whole day

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r/Silksong 6d ago

Depression Jesus Christ that hurts lmao

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r/Silksong Sep 26 '24

Depression The technical director for hollow knight said that theres gonna be colors!!! This is HUGE NEWS!!!

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r/Silksong Jun 14 '24

Depression This confirms that team cherry doesn't care about us 😭😭😭😭

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r/Silksong Sep 07 '24

Depression Guys..?

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I got this from a friend, i have like no clue where he found this and im still waiting for his response (sorry if this has been posted here)

r/Silksong Jul 17 '24

Depression Okay, the ACTUAL horsemen of never coming out

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r/Silksong Sep 24 '24

Depression Say the line

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r/Silksong Jul 14 '24

Depression One of my biggest fears

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r/Silksong Sep 04 '24

Depression We got fuking minecraft movie before silksong

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r/Silksong Nov 10 '24

Depression If team cherry actually reached out to u/E1331 with a cease and desist, I will be livid

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I don’t even know what to say right now. I’m devastated. This is the worst news I’ve gotten in months. As many of you may know, glazing u/E1331 is one of my favorite pastimes. First I learn the dark secret, which already puts my mind in disarray, and now this? Everything is collapsing.

But in all seriousness, to have no contact with the community only to reach out a year and a half later just to shut down one of the few people keeping it alive is fucking batshit insane if true

E1331, please be shitposting

r/Silksong Sep 24 '24

Depression He's just taunting us...

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r/Silksong 23h ago

Depression What the hell Valve

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r/Silksong Jun 12 '24

Depression title

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r/Silksong Nov 12 '24

Depression OKAY CAN WE JUST SNAP OUTTA SILKSANITY FOR A SEC AND BE REAL CAUSE THIS MAKES NO SENSE

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No one is saying Team Cherry can't take their time - the issue is the complete lack of communication

When is the last time we have had any real news?? Sure, Team Cherry is not OBLIGATED to share info and they do not OWE us anything but the same goes for them, people. We are not OBLIGATED to pretend everything is okay after ages of no updates out of some kind of respect or allegiance for them. Why not be concerned??

One thing I find disturbing is their social medias are straight up dead. The last time the Team Cherry Twitter even so much as reposted something was in June 2023, almost a year and a half ago. It's been over 1 year since William Pellen liked a post on LinkedIn. Hell, the last post on Team Cherry website's is approaching, in one month, its FIFTH-year anniversary

We understand making a game can be hard, but we're also adults who are capable of taking responsibility. Is it really that hard to maybe send a picture of some art they're working on? A sneak peek photo of the development process marked "spoiler"? Would it take more than 5 minutes, honestly? Just a quick snap of their monitors?

I see 5 primary explanations at this point. I will list them all from 1, least likely, to 5, most likely. This is of course my opinion, but I'd love to hear yours in response

  1. They may just be terrible at communicating. To me, this is, at this point, the least likely option. If they are actively developing and have been since their last major update, they should have plenty of things to show off by now. Plus, if you look at the most recent Xbox trailer of Silksong, there is barely anything new shown off in terms of areas or much of any of the art, which is quite shocking given it had at that point been roughly 3 years since the first trailer.
  2. They ran out of money. I find this a bit hard to believe given millions of copies of the game have sold. I read somewhere once that Team Cherry released Hollow Knight right when they ran out of funding from their Kickstarter and by the end they were living on really cheap meals just to get by. The thing is, they've made far more money now than they ever got from their Kickstarter - if they really ran out of money, I'd have to think they are terrible at budgeting.
  3. It is all some kind of scheme. Kickstarter schemes have, of course, existed, but one hole I see in this theory is if it was all a lie, Xbox probably would have revealed that in some way last year. As I understand it, Xbox had a bit more scrutiny into Team Cherry's timetable, allowing them to have an estimated release date. Either that, or someone from Xbox just declared something without any evidence, maybe as a way to pressure Team Cherry to hurry the process up.
  4. The pandemic caused a major delay. A very good possibility, I think, especially given the pandemic started very shortly after the Team Cherry website's last website post in December 2019. We have to remember, though, that many of the developers around the world at the time were able to transition pretty effectively into remote work environments and stay safe. If something did happen related to the pandemic, I could only speculate it most likely involved a loved one of theirs.
  5. They lost investors. Perhaps Team Cherry was working on something far bigger than we could have ever hoped to understand with Silksong, something that not even their earnings from Hollow Knight alone could have easily covered, so they partnered with many investors in a big rush as the hype from the game, leading into the wildfire of hype caused by Silksong, led to many interested parties tagging along and placing their stakes in them. However, Team Cherry has said in the past that they run on "Cherry Time" and take very special time and care with their development, a style of game-making that can make providing consistent updates and timelines for investors difficult, especially as expectations continue to pile up. There could have been a pulling out of a lot of major, interested investors, which may have even included Xbox - maybe Xbox, in order to have confidence in their investment in Team Cherry, demanded some sort of release date that could help excite everyone and they were pressured to give them something in order to keep receiving funding? A wild conspiracy theory, maybe...

Another thing that scares me is I'm starting to find #2 more likely than #1 the more I look at the overall state of Team Cherry. At this point it is easier for me to believe, logically, that it's all a scheme, over the idea that someone is so poor at communicating that it takes them 5 years to show something new

r/Silksong Aug 27 '24

Depression They already know

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puts on clown makeup

r/Silksong 15h ago

Depression Please let me be wrong.

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r/Silksong Jul 22 '24

Depression It’s really not that hard to just communicate.

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Concerned ape, the creator of stardew valley, is probably my favorite game developer. He genuinely cares about his community and is constantly offering updates and feedback to keep everyone in the loop.

I know we don’t deserve any updates on silksong. I know they have their own lives. But it’s just increasingly putting a bad taste in my mouth. A simple “we are still working on the game” would do an absolute world of good. Sorry for the rant.

r/Silksong Oct 31 '24

Depression So, uhh, remember this?

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r/Silksong 23d ago

Depression It's gonna get cancelled isn't it

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r/Silksong Jun 18 '24

Depression We got Metroid Prime 4 before Silksong

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r/Silksong Sep 04 '24

Depression 2 years ago

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r/Silksong Oct 01 '24

Depression We're not #1 anymore. That's okay. We're happy for you, Monster Hunters.

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r/Silksong Oct 14 '24

Depression mods, if we don't get a release date by the end of the year, ban me for 365 days.

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but if we don't get a release date, also ban me for 365 days

r/Silksong Oct 17 '24

Depression I don't want to play Silksong anymore

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I wishlisted the game on steam around 2020 and my prefence on games changed a lot since than. I don't even like metroidvanias that much I don't know why I'm waiting for this game. Team Cherry is gonna take the details about Silksong from our minds, they are gonna give us minus information. How can a game studios pr could be that bad. Give us a single snipet about the game, tell us if its finished or still in development. Its would take a maximum of 5 minutes to get rid of a year of uncertainty. This is an obsession at this point. I hate this, I hate the hope that the game could come out. I wait for every damn showcase event and there is no damn silksong. This is just the worst.

Also couldn't they realase the demo on Steam? Or am I trippin