4d ago

Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store

store.steampowered.com

Hollow Knight: Silksong on Steam

The game has been released, and the Steam store promptly shit itself. Took me 10 minutes to buy the game, the download speed is normal though (2GB download).

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4d ago

Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 30 minutes and counting now

store.steampowered.com /app/1030300/Hollow_Knight_Silksong/

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Also on GOG. DRM-free and presumably without the server issues.
- Bought it on GOG. I like actually owning things.
  
  You don't own anything on GOG. You only have revocable licenses. This is explicitly stated in their terms of services.
  
  When is the release for the Linux client?
- And without regional pricing.
  
  Regional pricing can be a good thing at times, they are generally beneficial to lower currency value countries.
never played hollow knight, is it worth picking up for my ps5..
- I'd say get Hollow Knight first, just because you can probably get it cheaper. After you're done with that, and you like it, get Silksong. It's very unlikely if you don't like one you'll like the other or vice versa, the games are pretty similar, and they have a couple of things that could be called "polarizing" (like the map).
  Unless you want to be part of the "current discussion", exploring the still new game, maybe you have friends who also play, and you can talk about things you find, then get Silksong.
Holy shit. The app can't load content. 😂
Consoles aren’t doing much better, Xbox apparently crashed and ps5 currently has a 404 for the game’s page
You'd think these big companies would learn to anticipate these high loads and proactively increase capacity but hey
- The Steam Store has gone down every time they do a major sale for over a decade or something. They don't care about these temporary problems, because they are just that, temporary. Increasing the server capacity for like an hour or something is just not worth it (most likely).
  Also, it's not like the rest of the Steam network is affected when this happens. You can still play your games or download stuff at full speed.
  
  I guess I forgot that companies don't give a shit about the consumer experience

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