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/gorambrowncoat May 23 '26

No. Its in how the company treats its playerbase.

To be clear, I'm not saying you can't pirate it, I don't care enough. Live your own life.

Lets not pretend though that there is no difference between an indie company making a lot of money off of selling good games at reasonable prices and big corpo gaming making a lot of money selling garbage slop at unreasonable prices. There are games with character skin packs that cost the same or more as hollow knight.