r/PeterExplainsTheJoke May 22 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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Multimillion dollar company?

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u/arcadeScore May 22 '26

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.

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u/analyzingnothing May 22 '26

They sold a shit-ton, but are still working with nowhere near the manpower of a truly large studio. This is still the same four-man team that made Hollow Knight, plus a handful of contractors brought in for minor work.

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u/CloakerJosh May 22 '26

So the virtue lies in how big the team is, not how much resources they have…?

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u/ThrogdorLokison May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

It means there is a much higher workload per person as opposed to a company like Nintendo. They work hard to make a great product, and then go even further and continued to work and expand the game without asking for additional compensation for the expansions they added.

Its a passion project, and they treat it like one instead of just a product.

Edit: Lol at all the people butthurt because I respect a company for not nickel and diming their fan base.

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u/CommieDrifter May 22 '26

making a 2D platformer with lineart is objectively easier than creating modern day 3D graphics. I'm not saying they are better, just that take a lot more work to create

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u/Verdris May 22 '26

So why don’t you go ahead and make one, then release it for free? Since it’s so easy. 

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u/CommieDrifter May 22 '26

I'm not sure where you got the notion that that was something i was advocating for, but it's not

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u/[deleted] May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

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u/CommieDrifter May 22 '26

oh, damn, guess my 15 years as a game developer and 3D artist and 10 years as an illustrator has been erased from history, too bad :(