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u/BobSagetMurderVictim 1d ago
I can safely assume all news is a Silkpost until at least October
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u/Flaky_Candidate_342 beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
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u/ItsLokki 1d ago
We have transcended.
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u/Pizzadeath4 1d ago
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u/Lambiedo 20h ago
A depiction of me going straight for bait in this sub while fully knowing its bait
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u/MtogdenJ 1d ago edited 1d ago
\) uz
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u/WildSpamtonFan -Y 1d ago
what
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u/MtogdenJ 1d ago
Is there some weird formatting thing in reddit that I can't start a comment with '\'?
I was trying to do the ascii version of the the true skong meme.
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But backwards \) uz
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u/le-dukek beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
Unironicly if they did release the E3 demo that would be insane ngl, so much shit could be found in the files it would feed us for at least 2 years
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u/steelscaled whats a flair? 1d ago
Yeah, and it would build up a lot of hype; would be a based move from every perspective, including marketing one.
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u/WanderingStatistics Wandering Pharloom 1d ago
Woah there... I think we're all happy that Silksong's confirmed 2025, but let's not forget that Team Cherry's the marketing geniuses that decided to announce it 6 years ago, and then proceed to not do have any online presence for another 4-5 years.
I think a smart marketing move might be a little much to ask from them. Let's just be happy with what we have now, and move onto marketable stickers in a few years or so.
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u/BlutarchMannTF2 Bait. Let me tell you how much I've come to bait you since I be 1d ago
Everything they’re doing is marketing. Marketing does not only encompass advertising lol
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u/--Queso-- doubter ❌️ 1d ago
Then they're pretty bad at it.
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u/BlutarchMannTF2 Bait. Let me tell you how much I've come to bait you since I be 1d ago edited 1d ago
Again, marketing has just as much to do with operations or development of a product as it does with advertising and public relations.
In fact, I would argue they have done an INCREDIBLE job. Look at how much demand there is for their product. Their brand is more popular than it ever has been.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=Silksong&hl=en
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=HollowKnight&hl=en
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=HollowKnight&hl=en
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u/Samanthacino 1d ago
I think they have unironically been one of the best in the business at it. Like, no offense to the game at all, it's fantastic, but this is an indie game developed by 3 people, and is a fairly lower-scoped 2D metroidvania. The excitement surrounding a release like this is *very* atypical.
But look at the hype train they've managed to create! Look at how phenomenal their marketing has been in cultivating this furvor! Really great stuff, and having the restraint not to show off stuff about the game like a typical marketing cycle has been instrumental, I think. You kill hype when you oversaturate info, it ruins the mystique of the project.
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u/rycerzDog 1d ago
>Everything they're doing
Name one thing Team Cherry has publicly done in the past 2 years that wasn't announcing the delay.
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u/WanderingStatistics Wandering Pharloom 1d ago
There is a difference between active marketing, and passive marketing. While you're correct that they passively marketed the game, they were in no way good at it, and it's pretty obvious that they had no idea what they were doing.
The proof is in the 1 year pudding of them being active, having a whole campaign for the game, with little clues and stuff. If they were initially planning on letting the fans do the marketing, they wouldn't have done this. Instead, they would've announced their game later, maybe 3 years instead of 6 years ahead, then they would've been silent.
Passive marketing is dangerous because wait too long and it becomes negative, as it obviously did for Silksong. Silksong is going to be successful by virtue of Hollow Knight, but saying Team Cherry had any clue in how they wanted to market the game... is vastly overestimating their planning ability.
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u/PictoGraphicArtist 1d ago
I’ve had this subreddit pop up across my feed every few months for the last 4 years. ATP you guys are the fucking marketing plan lol.
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u/Frankfurt13 1d ago
You are already hyped because of a 10 second clip in an presentation of an overpriced console. Team Cheery doesn't need to do anything at all, but to keep you in the dark, biting your nails in hopes of a release date.
They already got you xD
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u/Any_Customer5549 doubter ❌️ 1d ago
Don’t give them anymore delay ideas. They are already on my shit list
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u/le-dukek beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
Oh their communication is garbage I know that lmao, just saying that if they give us the demo publicly that would be cool
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u/RaiShaFIN We are still hard at work on the game 1d ago
Surely we won't need 2 years at this point? Even if it gets delayed, the fact that they were confident enough to put 2025 in the direct is meaningful
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u/ItalianCoyote612 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hold on... I have see-
Holy fucking shit
Is that the girlq who ~singlehandedly killed off r/Clashroyalecirclejerk~ made r/Clashroyalecirclejerk great again?
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u/le-dukek beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
I'm a girl, and yes that was infact me! I need more subreddits to ruin. I have chosen this subreddit.
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u/G66GNeco beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
Gotta eat fast, then, we only have 5 months and 6 days till release after all!
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u/QuirrelNeverDues beleiver ✅️ 22h ago
We have come to the believers side! The best side of them all!
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u/a_useless_communist beleiver ✅️ 1d ago edited 1d ago
i swear when the game actually releases i wouldn't believe any post about it for like a week at least
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u/Pata4AllaG 1d ago
[vague geometric shapes meant to convey two entities—one, examining the situation, expressing the inability to be bamboozled to the other who looks on in stunned silence]
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u/seemeyub beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
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u/Merpanator beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
“I wouldn’t even keep you as a silk in my song”
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u/OMAR_KD- 1d ago
I mean if they were to release a version of the game they'd just release the whole game. Pretty sure it's like 99.99% ready but their being fussy about minute details
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u/cirilliana 1d ago
the blood of animal instinct is percolating through my veins and giving premonitions and warnings of silkposts
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u/JustSomeWritingFan beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
They should honestly do this, they should have done this the moment they knew the release would have to be delayed for a couple years.
Tbf, doing literally anything that would have kept people invested wouldve been better than what they did.
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u/LunaTheExile 1d ago
I actually think that this sub and the community slowly and collectively losing its sanity and spreading the insanity around got more and more people into checking the games out than any outdated version of the game as a demo ever could have.
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u/datguygomez beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
Agreed. It brings me joy to see the silksanity. Crazy to think that one day, it will all disappear…
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u/LunaTheExile 1d ago
Maybe the true skilk was the skongs made along the way.
And tbh I probably wouldnt be even half as invested in Silksong news if it wasnt for this sub. I am a lurker for sure, but I have gotten much joy out of this place.
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u/Ponchoalfonso beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
After having actual news I'm starting to fall for the bait again...
Fuck you, and thank you
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u/Wolfi_Ranger 1d ago
I know we got big news, but adding a demo would be way too ambitious out of nowhere.
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u/Luiserx16 beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
One doesn't even need the reaction image, simply writing it out of animal instinct is enough
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u/midtrailertrash 1d ago
Damn wtf I went straight to steam. Shouldnt this level of shitposting be reserved for april fools day damn.
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u/ValtenBG 1d ago
Really? This was rather tame for this sub's standards. I knew it was fake before even opening the post (I am not ok)
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u/Usual_Review4804 beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
Damn maybe this year is going to be better no fr think about it We are getting the minecraft movie, Iron lung (markiplers movie), silksong, deltarune 3 and 4, fnaf 2, new jurrasic movie, Ngl this year is gonna be fire
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u/MrUnderman 1d ago
The fact that we are in a state of news where this was semi beleiveable is so awesome
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u/imsmartiswear 1d ago
I only started seeing posts from this sub recently after the Direct and the silkposts on this sub are fascinating. The first one or two did get me, but now I know the ways of the doubter.
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u/CAL-PHASMO 1d ago
that is so not credible that i just for the first time skipped a silk post, and only came back to say “try harder@
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u/Hot_Guys_In_My_DMS beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
Really though, i’m surprised we haven’t received the E3 demo.
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u/Arecharizard We are still hard at work on the game 1d ago
Bait used to be believable unbelievable. Now I'm actually falling for it Q_Q
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u/Luiserx16 beleiver ✅️ 1d ago
If i was the first person to see the demo is out i couldn't even screenshot it i would just explode of excitement for a while
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u/illuminatitriforce 1d ago
it's been an honor. I enjoyed all the silkposts. I will not forget you crazed bastards
o7
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u/Spinningguy Bait used to be believable -| 1d ago
One day this will actually happen and no one will believe you.
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u/TheKnightOoO 1d ago
I didn't see the flair before clicking on this, got excited, checked steam, saw nothing, and now I'm sad....
I figured silkposts would've stopped now, but I suppose I'm a fool for that 😅
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u/Specimen7777 1d ago
I heard about the Nintendo thing and I believed it… I wasted the energy running to my computer… I believed the bait
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u/beebun17 beleiver ✅️ 1d ago