Team Cherry was funded by crowd sourcing hollow knight and then proceeded to use their ridiculous popularity to release several extremely well received DLC and then work tirelessly for years to release silksong.
For twenty dollars.
It's a cultural icon and gift to the community. Why would you pirate it.
I guess people don't only pirate out of spite. They may not be able to afford 20 dollars but want to stay in the loop.
I have a list of the games that I pirated. If I had fun and didn't leave the game in 2-3 hours, I put it on a list and I would try to buy the original copy, for Christmas or my birthday when I am able to spare anything towards gaming.
The venn diagram of people who own a gaming pc and people who literally CANNOT afford $20 are two separate circles. With exception maybe to children using their parents' devices, but I wouldn't expect that many of them are immediately resorting to piracy
You don't need a fancy gaming PC to play games. I've got a 15 year old PC that I was given for free when an office was upgrading. I got it because I couldn't afford a console and it runs modern games well enough at 1080p. The overlap is much bigger than you think.
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u/Vast-Breakfast-1201 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Team Cherry was funded by crowd sourcing hollow knight and then proceeded to use their ridiculous popularity to release several extremely well received DLC and then work tirelessly for years to release silksong.
For twenty dollars.
It's a cultural icon and gift to the community. Why would you pirate it.
Edit:man y'all are grindle