LET ME IN
Edit: It took 3 hours but Steam servers are stable now, I finally bought it. See you on the other side
Activision would kill baby to have people want their game so much that it crash Steam server.
Also the regional pricing is super cheap here($11), this gonna sell 10 millions.
Edit: in the payment processing screen and it just fail to process. Whelp, it's 10:30pm here, might as well get it tomorrow. Good luck everyone!
Edit: so apparently it break every major platform except GOG and Humble. That's crazy!
Hot damn, not bad
But yeah every major studio sees these games and thinks underpaying devs, union busting, and AI garbage are gonna get them there somehow.
Meanwhile Steam keeps making self-made millionaires who busted ass on a passion project people adore for years. Like the Balatro guy, it makes me happy to think about and I hope he's doing well.
Because aaa developers are in the business of the business of making games. As in financing, shuffling money, stock appreciation, selling assets at opportune times, etc.. They are no longer interested in making games, they’re trying to make infinite money through an established ecosystem.
I have no clue what Hollow Knight is other than than individual people being pumped for this silksong thing. No advertising. No "hype train".
Here's hoping success stories like this shake some sense into the AAA gaming industry.
The hype for silksong has been going so long that it's become a meme🤡. Just because it's not as obvious anymore doesn't mean it no longer exists.
Hollow Knight is amazing. If you're into platformers or metroidvanias it's a must play.
I certainly was when I was younger... Good ole Game Boy Color. Glad to see older genre's are still going strong!
Also, it's punishingly difficult
There's definitely a "hype train" and I'm not sure how you're involved in the community at all and managed to miss it haha
Just trying to say nice things about the game you like eh
As I said I know nothing.
Hype trains by my definition are more like what you see with Call of Duty or AAA games... where it's fucking everywhere.
The only thing I'm seeing is organic(afaict) hollow night posts from real fans.
I don't even like the game...or really any of this style of games where you run back and forth over the same terrain over and over and over again for hours looking for a hole you haven't been through yet.
But I do appreciate what is essentially a relic of the past: A game that is simple, beautiful (especially on OLED), inexpensive, can run on anything, runs completely offline, and doesn't contain any ads or microtransactions or rootkits or accounts or spyware or invasive DRM. You literally just pay for the game and get the game, which is so insanely uncommon these days for games of this caliber.
Damn, I thought all the jokes about breaking Steam Servers were just being hyperbolic. I applaud them though, I couldn’t get into the game but this is a huge milestone
I wanted to love the original, I did love the style and the gameplay, but the hardcore mechanics were just too much for me, they need to give us a "I have a job and a family" mode lmao.
I'm about 3 hours in and the benches are far more generous than in the first game. Also corpse runs aren't required; you just lose your money.
I just couldn’t get into the gameplay. Which sucks since it’s such a pivotal mechanic. I think a easier mode though would definitely let me go through and appreciate the game a little more though
I'm currently waiting for them to release a patch for it; my controller is a little fucked: The controller vibration seems to have stopped working. Also it bugs out for me if I disconnect the controller when the game is running and reconnect: some of the buttons stop working.
I got it into my cart!
I can't open my cart, but it's in there
Luckily it is not a finite resource.
New Team Cherry silkpost:
We've run out of Silksong stock!
Please check back in [seven years].
See you soon!
"we're going to need 4000 more pods"
20 € ? Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo would had marked it for 70 € or more.
lol - who's doing SRE?
What is Hollow Knight silksong?
Silksong is the highly anticipated sequel to the original game Hollow Knight. It's a metroidvania game with a cult following. The sequel has been in development for years, and people are super hyped for its release, proven even more so by the fact that an industry giant like steam not being able to keep up with demand
it's still broken for me. i literally run the hollow knight community. i am gonna be so spoiled on literally everything. send help.
still broken for me too, it's not just you
you'd think an hour and 20 would be enough time to let things be less broken
Once a server goes down they have to deal with the “thundering herd problem”. When you fail to get the game you keep retrying, which generates even more requests than the initial number that made the server go down in the first place.
Oh. So this might actually be a legit reason to do preorders, lol. I too got caught in payment progressing hell but I finally got it.
Not preordering is about waiting for reviews and bugfixes, isn't it? If you're gonna play on day one regardless, of course pre-order makes sense.
He has at least initial impressions. Some (Too many) AAA games will go mostly negative in less than an hour.
According to fireb0rn, he had no problem buying it on GOG.
0 drm, and you can play entirely offline. Gog’s def the better choice here. How’re you going to play silksong after gestures broadly goes to shit?
Seamless steam deck support is my guess
Well gog doesn't have a Linux client though, while steam really does a lot for Linux gaming. I used to prefer gog but I'm back to steam for now.
No problems buying it on Humble Bundle. Steam was down for me too though I got it to cart.
I think they are out of keys. Doesn't list the game any more, only the soundtrack.
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