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Four days until release! Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available on 4th September.

Release times:
7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JST

Game price:
USD $19.99 | EUR €19.99 | JPY ¥2300

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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago

If they’re only pricing it $20, how do explain the €100 I’m about to spend on it???

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 29 points 11 hours ago

Hollow Knight was only $15 and got a lot of free DLC. The developers considered it a huge success.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 69 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Take note AAA studios - this is how you do it.

With this pricing, Silksong may be the only game this year that I'll actually purchase on release day.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Unfortunately AAA studios have a long rat tail of unproductive execs and managers that take a huge pay cut and investors need to be happy too so their games will soon cost $100.

[–] simple@piefed.social 81 points 13 hours ago

We don't deserve team cherry. They could've easily sold it for $40 and everybody would have bought it, but they mentioned before that they wanted their games to be affordable for more people to play.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 43 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

No Australian pricing details

Believe it or not, right to gaol.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

no matter how many times I see it, that's still a wild spelling of that word and shouldn't be allowed. in fact you should go to jail for it. fucking ghoti-ass spelling.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

gaol has the best jraphics.

[–] caurvo@aussie.zone 7 points 11 hours ago

From experience... Hmmmm $120 take it or leave it.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 36 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

I don't really like games like this (I know Hollow Knight is a masterpiece if you do) but I'd be tempted to buy it for $20 just to support the studio

[–] killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

im a huge metroidvania fan, but i have yet to play hollow knight. i know this studio deserves everything it gets so for $20 ill be getting it day 1. i know ill be playing both at some point down the line

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

Yeah. Similar sentiment here. For me, spending $20 is my special way of flipping the bird at Nintendo and every other greedy AAA studios for wanting to jack up the price of games.

[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Same. Hollow Knight's combat and platforming simply didn't click. But, the atmosphere of that game is simply impeccable. That, to me, makes Hollow Knight an amazing video game, just one not for me.

[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm in the same boat. Hollow knight never clicked for me but I get what people like about it. Silksong looks like hollow knight with better combat though so that will make it more enjoyable for me...probably.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 points 10 hours ago

Basically my take. The lore and art take Hollow Knight over the top to Goat status, but it does not dethrone Blasphemous 2 for me... I'm not entirely sure anything can.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 hours ago

I bought hallow knight 3 times. Seems Silk Song will be the same.

[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 20 points 12 hours ago

That's basically giving it away. I guess they can very well expect to make the money back in volume.

[–] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

This is how to do it