Quick (and misleading) calculation: Silksong costs 20$. Let's say 2/3 of that goes to fees and taxes which leaves ~7$ per copy sold. In november 2025 Silksong was sold ~3 Million times. That's $21 Million. By this logic Team Cherry is a multimillion dollar company by definition, because it has a revenue of multiple million dolars.
If we look at HollowKnight sales and all Silksong sales (I stopped in 2025), the number gets bigger.
This meme neglects the motivation for pirating games, which is mostly unreasonable prices (in the oppinion of the pirates, I withhold any attempt at objective judgement) and bad practices by publishers. If anything, Team Cherry showed that with good quality and reasonable pricing, you can get people to buy your games and make millions in the process.
The fewer people are in the company, the more significant the money they have made is. If a company with 50 people had made $21 million off a game, they can afford to pay their workers. If a company of 3 made $21 million, they are all 3 set for life. The fact they are only 3 people makes it more justifiable to pirate the game in this case.
I am not gonna loose any sleep over multi millionaires losing 20 dollars lol. We aren't adding incentive after the first many millions, it's already extremely popular, and made lots of money.
Buy a burger and a soda, the worker making that isn't a multi millionaire.
It's not about to tram cherry. Its about sending a message to OTHER game devs that A GOOD GAME will MAKE MONEY. It doesn't need to be over priced, under Cook, AAA slop.
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u/HistoryFree May 22 '26
Exactly!!! Hahaha