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[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Silksong also didn’t presale and by extension had no way to early download. I think they didn’t want data miners and spoilers.

It wasn’t actually the download infrastructure that crashed steam, it was the payment APIs (my cart didn’t work for a full 2 1/2 hours!)

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

Steam pre-downloads are encrypted.

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