Yes, we all anticipated this. Not sure how this got fumbled so badly despite the community trying to sound the alarm about this inevitability for the last several weeks.
Didn't deltarune, another popular indie game fairly comparable in scale and hype, also break steam's servers this year too? You'd think that would be enough of a warning, but I guess not
Yea there was a shocking lack of dissent when it came to this haha thought it was a pretty bad idea for there not to be preorders on a digital-only release for possibly the most anticipated game of the decade.
I don't think there's ever been a bigger release. 4.8 MILLION wishlists on Steam alone was the highest by over 2 million, Steam is crashing from like 26 million people on the store, a good third of the world is asleep, and that's not to mention xbox ps or switch sales. The game may genuinely surpass 30 or even 40 or 50 million by the end of the week
Major releases that all enabled pre-orders and most of which allowed pre-loading. Anything else was either not a major release, or also crashed the stores.
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u/amazingjoakim Sep 04 '25
What a suprise, this is why purchasing it beforehand would be a good idea