Conscious injuries caused by Hollow Knight: A huge impact on the premiere of Silksong spread beyond huge parallel steam and fighting from shop windows to the part of the Internet, in which video games pirates meet – and something engaging is happening: pirates encourage you to buy a game instead of downloading a broken version.
The expected continuation of the Hollow Knight Team Cherry eventually appeared on September 4, 2025. USD 2025, six years after its announcement, and immediately crashed shop windows, including Steam.
When shop windows recovered, the number of players increased to such an extent that Silksong reached an amazing release day of 535 213 simultaneous players on Steam, sufficient to make it 18. Most often games on the Valve platform. The real number of players on all platforms will be much higher.
Silksong also launched a DRM without GOG, so it was not a surprise to see the cracked version to download in hours after launching. The answer was the answer of some experienced Pirates video games who called their peers to support the Cherry team and buy the game.
“The first game I bought the day of the premiere for a decade,” said Pyrokzg on Subreddit piracy In response to the thread recognized 7,000 times. “Even for me it’s not for me. It’s the first,” added Vamsi-Thop.
Why is this happening? Apparently, there is a huge value of good will from all over the internet directed to Team Cherry, a compact independent programmer who saw the original empty knight to blow up to such an extent that he was able to devote his cheerful time thanks to this ambitious continuation.
But there is also a feeling that Team Cherry does things properly. At the beginning there is a version without DRM for the premiere, but the Australian studio also wanted to honor the promises that were made in its original Hollow Knight Kickstarter all these years ago. There is even a free update for the Nintendo Switch 2 version. In compact, Team Cherry are good guys, and the feeling is that they deserve their success.
“This is a band of 3-4 people who did well through their fans at every step,” said no-shape6053, also in the pirate subreddit. “Make sure that the computer is released.
“Support developers if you can, they deserve it,” added ITznowbie. There are many others. “The only game that I feel bad if you ever pirate,” said Beastfire24. “Hey, the game is quite low-cost. This one should not pirates,” said Sythrin.
Interestingly, some expressed a surprise from the collective need not Silksong pirates, which prompted the discussion about why this was happening with Silksong, but in the past it did not have a similar beloved independent games.
“Usually people here say that the title, price or independent status does not matter to them, but I think Silksong is simply respected,” Mixalv offered.
“I am also surprised,” added Aliiertx. “Many times people say:” I don’t care if I am a pirate from an independent programmer, “but everyone is quite defensive against piracy. I am fascinated. “
The answers to this strengthen the angle of cherry of the team. “Team Cherry has built an amazing reputation,” Someone_Existing_1 suggested. “Because there are only a three -person studio, they can keep their games super low-cost due to much less employees in need of payment. In addition, there are no greedy whore, like most companies, so all DLCs are free and there are no microtransactions or bulls only online **.”
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