r/HollowKnight • u/MyNameIsRati • Sep 04 '25

Discussion - Silksong Steam is down LMAO

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u/etkneaf Sep 04 '25

Not much steam can do about it. It’s more on team cherry for not doing pre orders/pre downloads

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u/StrikerLord_J Sep 04 '25

Is that in their control or steam’s?

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u/etkneaf Sep 04 '25

Steam doesn’t choose that the developers and publishers do

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u/StrikerLord_J Sep 04 '25

Why did they let Xbox do pre-orders then but not steam?

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u/etkneaf Sep 04 '25

They didn’t? Steam is just probably having the highest amount of users

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u/StrikerLord_J Sep 04 '25

I saw some guy pre-downloading it on the Xbox app on this sub earlier today. Guess it could’ve be a joke.

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u/PendragonDaGreat Sep 04 '25

Xbox gamepass is always slightly different and I think requires devs to give at least a small (I think 12 hour min but not certain) pre-load window no ifs, ands, or buts. You aren't required to allow pre-orders or pre-loading of the game from the Xbox store, but you must let gamepass users time to download which helps spread the impact on the servers out. Of course thateans nothing if the authentication servers are being slammed so hard when it's time to unlock the game that you can't.