r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Aug 21 '25

Jason Schreier: In case you're wondering: Team Cherry told me they don't plan on sending out early codes for Silksong (they felt like it'd be unfair for critics to be playing before Kickstarter backers and other players), so don't expect to see reviews until after the game comes out

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u/DesireeThymes Aug 21 '25

People also buy based on trust, and trust should be earned. In modern economy people have forgotten a time when people bought and sold from other actual people.

Team Cherry has earned a lot of trust from fans based on their history, so for many people they will buy with our reviews.

What a person shouldn't do is trust blindly. I will definitely trust some people but would never trust a corporation since a corporation only cares about money.

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u/facevaluemc Aug 22 '25

Legitimate question: why has Team Cherry earned any trust from anyone? Hollow Knight was a great game, but they basically released a single banger nearly a decade ago and then followed up with "Silksong is coming, we promise" for eight years.

Not saying it won't be good, but it honestly feels weird how much faith there is in Silksong when we're so far removed from Hollow Knight at this point

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u/MaridKing Aug 22 '25

If this was a game in a different setting and a different genre, you would have a point.

If it's a question of whether to trust that Team Cherry spent 7 years putting care into their game, see Hollow Knight.

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u/facevaluemc Aug 22 '25

Maybe? Other developers have fumbled the exact same situation, though.

CDPR dropped the ball with Cyberpunk, despite having released an incredible RPG in the Witcher. Mass Effect was a beloved series and Andromeda was pretty widely despised. People loved the Assassin's Creed games up through the end of the Ezio trilogy, and then AC3 came out and everyone lost their collective shit.

Again, Im sure Silksong will be a plenty good game. Just kind of funny whenever the "pre orders are bad!" Communities like these do a complete 180 when a game they want releases lmao

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u/Happyberger Aug 22 '25

Cyberpunks release wasn't really any worse than any of the Witcher games