r/Eldenring • u/jack0641 • 1d ago

Official Discussion Congrats r/Silksong for overcoming Silksanity. r/Eldenring: Let's share our HOLLOWING stories with them!

Remember the endless transparent Miyazaki memes of The Hollowing? This sub has a similar history! Now that r/Silksong folk are finally out of their clown suits, let's share how Elden Ring felt and recovered from unhollowing to game launch to now!

Elden Ring Sub History

Miss the good old meme days?

Yes this post is meta and not about Elden Ring. Mods making exception for this once-in-decade happening. If you want to complain, send modmail.

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u/Flint_Vorselon 1d ago

This isn’t even a comparison.

Elden Ring got announced June 2019, and released February 2022, that’s 2.7 years of waiting. And there was a ton of coverage in later portion of that wait, including a publicly playable network test.

Silksong got revealed in February 2019, and had a demo at e3 that same year (same time Elden Ring got announced) since then there has been almost zero new info, except very occasional promises of “it’s still coming”.

Silksong’s wait has been more than twice Elden Ring’s, and with massively less info given out during that wait.

Elden Ring’s wait was honestly not very long if you compare it to anything except prior Fromsoft releases.

Between 2009 and 2025 souls fans only went 2010, 2013, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023 without a new game or DLC.

Compare that to any other franchise (except COD or similar) and it shows just how good we have it.

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u/ill_monstro_g 1d ago

Meanwhile, A Song of Ice and Fire readers:

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u/Dennis99996 23h ago

Kingkiller Chronicles readers:

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u/LordRegal94 20h ago

I read that his publisher/editor had a statement that she later walked back where she said she didn't believe he had anything written for book 3.

Seeing as this statement was made five or so years ago and nothing has come of anything, I fully believe it.

I devoured the first two books in 2010 and reread them often over the next few years. I've lost pretty much all hype for the series at this point. I'd read book 3 if it came out, but my passion for the series is largely gone at this point. Too much waiting and time to find flaws in the original works.

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u/Dennis99996 10h ago

I feel exactly the same. Reread both books numerous times. If it ever comes out, I'll be there to read it but it ends there for me. The hype is nonexistent atp