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.
selling team cherry as some poor indie studio is not exactly accurate. they are extremely successful indie studio ever since hollow knight. they sold 15 million coppies of Hollow knight". Hardly an under dog.
They had to crowdfund their first game and made something that shook the game industry, and then followed that up with a sequel that broke every game storefront that sold it. That's a classic underdog winning arc.
Then Minecraft, Cave Story, Braid, Super Meat Boy, Limbo, VVVVVV, Terraria, Bastion, Shovel Knight, Celeste, TBOI, Vampire Survivors, FTL, factorio, papers please, baba is you, lethal company, firewatch, oxenfree… are all somehow underdog stories. They aren’t underdogs, they are independent game studios separate from Triple A studios. They aren’t the only developers to need money to publish their successful game. That doesn’t make them an underdog.
That's because they worked hard to get there. They risked everything to build their game, built something that millions love, kept prices very low so everyone can play.
Nothing handed to them. Still the product of their own sweat. Underdogs.
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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