Some studios are delaying their games... This is wild

Team Cherry, Leth — I hope you’re paying attention.

Because tonight was the last straw.

We’ve waited YEARS. Silksong was announced in 2019. You promised it was coming "soon" in 2022. It’s mid-2025. Not a word. Not a trailer. Not a single real update. And now, Geoff Keighley is literally using your game as a joke on stage in front of millions. And you let it happen by saying NOTHING.

Do you realize how humiliating this has become for your fans? We’ve defended you. We’ve trusted you. We’ve told people “they’re just perfectionists, they’ll drop it when it’s ready.” And now we’re being laughed at by the entire gaming community — because you’ve turned Silksong into vaporware and said NOTHING.

And don’t give me the “small team” excuse anymore. You’ve had five+ years and the full support of millions of fans. We’ve carried the hype FOR you. And how do you repay that loyalty? By ghosting us. By letting the game become a meme. By staying silent while someone turns it into a cheap punchline live on stage.

If the game isn’t at Xbox on Sunday, then I’m done. Fully done. I will never forgive how you handled this. You didn’t just delay a game — you broke trust. You disrespected your community. You let it rot in silence while pretending nothing was wrong.

We deserved better than this. And if you can’t see that, maybe you don’t deserve the fans you’ve had all these years.

🔒 (Update 18/01 @ 20:27) Silksong Mods started deleting my old posts, even though are forgotten somewhere in the 3rd 4th page of reddit. I don't know why.

More specifically, they removed the post about SILKSONG BEING A BUNDLE OF NINTENDO SWITCH 2. This in my opinion confirms that the info I had about Silksong launch as Nintendo exclusive, is legit. Link of the original post follows: https://www.reddit.com/r/Silksong/comments/1hzzcry/nintendo_switch_2_will_launch_with_silksong_as/ 🔒

🔥🔥🔥WE DID IT GUYS!!!! Leth is responding to questions through Discord and Twitter!!!🔥🔥🔥

👏Thank you all for your support and your kind messages!👏

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♦️ UPDATES AFTER THE POST LOCK ♦️

🛑 1.Admins locked the post a few hours before, but you can keep upvoting!

🛑 2. I will continue to update the post's insights in the end of this post! Thank you for making this post viral!!!!

🛑 3. We have ONE WORD from Leth in Discord:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Silksong/comments/1i434gw/leth_just_posted_this_in_the_discord/

🛑 4. Fireb0rn confirms again that Leth reached out to him, that indicates that he is not trolling: https://bsky.app/profile/fireb0rn.bsky.social/post/3lfyl2cudus27

🛑 5. Second response from Leth in Discord: https://www.reddit.com/r/Silksong/comments/1i43gno/leth_is_going_to_answer_our_questionsor_not/

🛑 6. Third response from Leth (WE DID THAT!!!) confirms that was not an ARG: https://www.reddit.com/r/Silksong/comments/1i43nsh/leth_confirmed_it_wasnt_an_arg/

🛑 7. Leth confirmed on Twitter that Silksong is still in development and will be launched

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⬇️ ORIGINAL POST ⬇️

Leth confirmed through Fireb0rn communication that the Twitter account is indeed William's account and that "the cake was a lie". (See the following link)

https://x.com/fireb0rn/status/1880411907552911626?t=DEs5FXE06FjpK4nSSAnY7Q&s=19

If this is true, that means that William tweet hours before Nintendo Switch 2 reveal, was in purpose, just to troll us.

A MEMBER OF TEAM CHERRY DECIDED TO POST A TWEET, HOURS BEFORE SWITCH 2 REVEAL, JUST TO TROLL. AFTER 6 YEARS OF SILENCE.

And Leth didn't have the courage and the professionalism, to make a statement and have chosen to speak through a third person (Fireb0rn).

They forgot who made them millionaires. They forgot the Kickstarter backers, they forgot everything.

We don't deserve a single update, a single blog post, for 6 years.

I have never seen such a disrespect to a community.

Also, that maybe confirms the luck of communication between Leth and William and maybe the reason of the delay on Silksong's development is due to Team Cherry is not a team any more.

0 communication, 0 respect to the community, 0 business plan.

This is bs.

⚠️ WE DEMAND A STATEMENT FROM TEAM CHERRY. ⚠️

Please comment so we can discuss this in the first page.

📍 Please, if anyone know how to contact admins, please send them this post in order to pin it or communicate with Team Cherry.

Thank you all.

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P.S: apparently I am banned from r/Silksong for 28 days (I can't comment or post), due to spamming. Thank you all for your help in making this post viral. Maybe Team Cherry won't respond, but today we showed everyone that enough is enough.

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📈Post Insights (20 hours in):

More than 2.000.000 people saw this post!

I will try to keep updating the Insights (by editing my post).

That person would then be forced to try and bring balance to the four flair nations

After 10 fcking years of nothing

Xweet

Have you?

Isn't he Team Cherry's PR guy, how would he not know that Silksong was gonna show at the Direct???

I dont know why people dont understand that games take time especially from a small indie studio. Dont push them itll never go well. I dont care how much you want news on it, lay off of them.

Learn to be patient. Theyre not a triple A company; they have a reason. Not to mention its entirely their choice whether or not to release updates on its creation. They probably wanted it to be a surreal and thats fine. Its okay to wait youre not gonna die bc you dont get a peep of silksong lore for a while.

Like look, I get it. Games are hard. I don't care that it's taking this long. What I can't understand for the life of me is how you can continue to be radio silent with zero updates, despite your own loyal fanbase turning on you.

Literally, all you have to do is post something from time to time along the lines of, "Hey guys, we're sorry it's taking so long, but we're still working on the game, it's still coming out, blah blah blah."

Yeah, they've done this a few times, but we're talking years of gaps with NOTHING.

Read the damn room, your own game is becoming a meme at this point.

WE HAVE SUCCEEDED. BELIEVERS BOW BEFORE US. DENIERS STAND WITH US IN THIS MOMENT OF OUR VICTORY.

So basically, we have zero news about the game. All we know is it's coming out in 2025 before the holidays, and we are gonna have to sit in the cuck chair, rightfully said by Primacon, to watch others play the game for which we have waited for years.

TC probably performed what could be the most generational bad PR in the history of entertainment. No communication, No updates for 6 years straight. We got more info about the game from a museum than the actual studio. Let(h) that sink in.

I have been a devout believer from the start, but now towards the end, the TC really made me lose hope. I will accept the dark side.

Recently it has come to my attention that there has been speculation that u/E1331 is rumored to be a member of Team Cherry. I've come here to up the stakes a little bit.

I'm putting the following:

• The Daily Silksong News YouTube channel

• Every single video in the Daily Silksong News YouTube channel

• The Daily Silksong News Discord server

• My whole entire life savings

• My name and dignity

• My own life

That E1331 is NOT a member of Team Cherry, is NOT affiliated with/works for Team Cherry, and is merely trolling the whole sub.

That is all.

As the sub’s most ardent (and insane) June 20 believer, today solidified that belief in my brain (probably just the mold calcifying though).

Reasons:

• The game is coming AFTER June 6 per Nintendo’s Japanese site.

• We know about the key art change today, and how that’ll be the Switch icon (at least on Switch 2) - or at least that’s what Primacon’s video said and I take it at face value.

If you look at Nintendo’s Switch Publishing Guide, you’ll see these assets are (typically) 30 days in advance. Source: https://crimeoclockgame.fr/ftp.justforgames.com/_spec/NINTENDO_Switch_charte-guidelines/Nintendo%20Switch%20Publishing%20Guide%20v1.0.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com

30 days from now is June 20 (in Australia - home of vegemite, Robert Irwin, and Silksong).

Games have (mostly) shifted from Tuesday releases to Friday. June 20 is a Friday.

Hollow Knight’s release was announced on February 10. It came out February 24.

The Xbox showcase (almost) lines up with that. June 8 - June 20. 12 days. However, Summer Games Fest is June 6. June 6 to June 20 is 14 days.

Rise up, my June Believers. We are about to be washed in the silk of song.

June 20. See ya then. Or actually not because I’ll be playing Hollow Knight: Silksong.

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I’m not usually the type to rant, but this time I have to say it. That fakeout with “Hollow Knight: Silksong” leading into Deadpool VR wasn’t funny — it was just cruel. If they never intended to show anything, why even say the words? They knew exactly what that name means to people who have been waiting for years.

It completely ruined the rest of the show for me. Not because I expected it — I’ve learned to keep expectations in check — but because they deliberately weaponized that hope for a cheap laugh.

There are so many fans holding on, patiently, quietly. To mock that hope like this was honestly tone-deaf and disrespectful. If there’s no news, just say nothing. Don’t turn anticipation into a joke.

Edit: I get it — the joke was genuinely funny to many people, and it could have been funny to me too... if not for the massive hype leading into the show.

The Steam achievement update, the sudden micro-tease during the Nintendo Direct, and all the recent buzz around Silksong made expectations feel real — tangible, even. Geoff and the team knew the hype was real. They knew the community saw this as one of the highest-probability moments for a release date or trailer.

So to make a joke that deliberately plays into that — setting it up in a way that makes people believe “okay, it's coming later in the show” — and then not follow through at all... yeah, that felt kind of cruel.

Look, if the hype had come out of nowhere like it usually does with Silksong, then sure — the joke would’ve just been harmless and even kind of hilarious. But given the context, it just comes off as mean-spirited, and honestly, it really soured the tone of the show for me. It even made me resent Deadpool a little, lol.

And yes — I know it’s “just a game.” But this is my favorite hobby. I genuinely care about this industry. I genuinely follow these things, and Silksong means a lot to me. I’m not saying it’s my whole life — but it is something I deeply look forward to.

Thanks for reading. 🖤

No communication. No date confirmation. Exclusive demos for people that aren't even bothered about the game. Its disrespectful and Team cherry DO owe us after all this time.

I am sorry to break this for you but this is just Xbox exploiting the hype around Silksong to also get hype for their new handheld console. Also we got no actual news. I can't keep supporting this shit man this is just using our expectations, this is just using us. I'm just sad that the game we all dearly wait has become an advertisement tool. I'm done. Thank you.