I am normally one of those people that holds off on buying games. I almost never buy a game on the day that it comes out and I have never pre-ordered anything. In fact, I cannot think of a single game in the past 5 years or so (perhaps longer) that I have bought a game in the first week that it was released.
That is, until Silksong was released.
While I didn't get in there on day one at midnight like a lot of people did - and apparently crashed the servers on multiple platforms for online purchasing of games (well done guys!) - but I did get it the day or two after it was released and I have someone, an unknown Hivean here to thank for that.
I was talking in some random forum about how I am waiting for the price to go down before I get my hands on this new release and that is when I was informed that the game launched at $20, which is just amazing and I can't believe that Team Cherry did that. They definitely could have sold it for 40 or even been generous and sold it at $30, but to sell it at $20 just show a level of awesomeness that just doesn't appear in the gaming world at that often with most companies that seem to want to fleece gamers for every nickle that they can.
No microtransactions, no DLC, no tiered subscription system, no season pass, AND a really low price to buy the full game on day 1? I think Team Cherry just became everyone's favorite game studio.
I am not going to look up the specifics but I recall reading that it was breaking a bunch of sales records and what not and while this number has likely gone up since I read it I heard that 3 million copies of the game were sold. So if you are not good at math I'll tell you that 3 million times $20 is $60 million dollars. The 3-person team that worked on Silksong is likely already quite happy with this result and the certainly are not going to be in line for the soup kitchen anytime soon but I do like the absence of extreme greed on their parts. Honestly ya'll, they could have released the game for $50 for week one, then dropped it to $40, then slowly made their way to $20 and very few people would have complained.
To go straight to the bargain price right at the start, I was shocked because in this day and age of greed and huge studios that crank out crap and then pay off the media to say that it is awesome so they can recoup their money, that's the norm right now.
There are so many games in the past year that have been straight up trash but the media and influencers just sing the praises of it anyway. Something has to be truly reviled by the online community such as Anthem in order for the big press to finally admit that "yeah, that was crap." There was another arena style game that has fatties and pronouns that first brought everyone's attention to it but the game was also quite awful and that one failed in just a few weeks and it's my understanding that it was a very huge amount of money lost on that... Good I say!
When we have companies like Team Cherry that make a high quality game that they are well aware everyone is chomping at the bit to get to and then they DON'T take advantage of that hype.. well, the AAA studios just must be rubbing their heads in disbelief.
Imagine how great it is though, to become extremely wealthy and still maintain some level of ethics at the same time. Imagine how awesome that is actually. This is what Team Cherry have done and I think it is just incredible.
Now to get back to my first point in the title, this game is really hard. But then again, I definitely suspected that because Hollow Knight was the same. It's gonna be a while before I finish this game I'm sure. I just have to avoid all YT videos about the game until that time because I am sure there are a ton of spoilers out there already!
I've only defeated the first named boss and I am taking my time. There's no rush!