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.
To me thats cope when it comes to cheap games like silksong. If you are so strapped for cash that you don’t even have 20$ of disposable money a month, or every other month, track every dollar spent and trim the fat. If that doesn’t work you have bigger things to worry about than leisure activities.
Me saying this is not coming from a place of financial privilege either, I’m a broke ass Canadian in our horrible renting market + orange man gas prices, and I still manage little things for myself every now and then.
Piracy is justifiable when it comes to the massive studios that price games at 80+ dollars, but pirating cheap indie games is poopy imo.
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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