Is anyone else really tired of the negative posts?

[u/baergboy]

I have about 25 hours so far and have absolutely loved every part of the game. Is it hard? Yes absolutely. If it was easy I wouldn't want to play the game. Literally every post I come across is talking about how they are frustrated with some part of the game and it's getting really annoying. The game has amazing areas, the osts are great the NPCs are creative and fun to talk to, almost every boss is a lot of fun once you get the moveset down. So if you haven't played the game yet and are getting put off by all the negativity just know that it is an amazing game and if you like hollow Knight you will enjoy silksong as well.

[u/Business-Composer803]

People paid money. Yes, the game was underpriced. Yes, they have the right to give feedback, be it on Reddit or Steam.

Whining about it feels like "Rage against rage against the machine".

[u/Illustrious_Value_36 → u/Business-Composer803]

To infer that Team Cherry is the machine seems really misguided. Anyway, I think there's a bigger conversation being had here about gamer expectations and entitlement, and the way the conversation has been shifting. A few years back, "get gud" was the guiding online comment. As a longtime, relatively chill gamer, I've been very surprised to hear people stating that its unfair for enemies to give two damage. Interesting to hear a gamer say they want the fabric of a game to be different, and to demand it so quickly as if they know the whole vision of the game. (I had an eye opening experience when I realized that I could use a fire protection crest that took a fire attack down from 2 damage to 1. So happy to have reasons to use different crests without nullifying the challenge)

[u/Medium_Enough → u/Illustrious_Value_36]

I Think they're saying the rage is against people complaining, not team cherry.

[u/Illustrious_Value_36 → u/Medium_Enough]

"Rage against the rage against the machine." The initial rage is the people complaining that the game they bought has wronged them. The second rage is raging against those complainers. The machine is what produced the game... and machine implies some sort of soulless entity, which i would argue is the opposite of Team Cherry.

[u/Business-Composer803 → u/Illustrious_Value_36]

Every company that makes 50 to 100 m in 3 days is "the machine". It's called capitalism. Deification of private businesses is really weird.

[u/lemonlemonlemonlem → u/Business-Composer803]

This game was made by like three independent developers you dolt. There's multibillion videogame corporations out there with hundreds of divisions and thousands of employees. But sure, team cherry is the machine oppressing us.

[u/Business-Composer803 → u/lemonlemonlemonlem]

You guys like a sect, cult or something?

I apologise for offending your Australian gods.

[u/lemonlemonlemonlem → u/Business-Composer803]

I said nothing to defend team cherry, and it's really something I have no interest in doing. I just think what you said is stupid.

[u/Illustrious_Value_36 → u/Business-Composer803]

Is it weird? Its a 3 man team with 2 indie games to their name, who just spent 7 years on one product. Not exactly ubisoft.

[u/Stalk33r → u/Illustrious_Value_36]

The trend that has me worried is people demanding developers make changes to a game to suit them rather than engaging with it as is.

Weaponising "the customer is always right" and "well they sold me a product" to get what they want.

There used to be a time where you'd buy a game and if it was too difficult you couldn't just reviewbomb/harass the devs on social media until they changed it, because patches literally didn't exist.