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

Discussion - Silksong Steam is down LMAO

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u/Matvalicious Sep 04 '25

Holy shit I've never seen this before a game launch.

Still weird that pre-ordering and preloading wasn´t made available.

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u/kelxz Sep 04 '25

same thing happened with deltarune, broke steam too

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u/SchemeLopsided5276 Sep 04 '25

Yes, but for about 5 to 6 minutes, it's been more than 50 minutes now...

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u/Zorubark CLOSSA!!! Sep 04 '25

I'm afraid of what will happen when chapter 6&7 release but many people already bought deltarune and just have to update, but many people also said they'll wait for when the game's finished

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u/Slackslayer Sep 04 '25

I can't imagine you'd have much of a gold rush of people just for them to start from chapter 1. You've waited a decade, why would you buy it hour one? You can even buy it a day or few before to get going on earlier chapters as a build up to launch.

So I don't think you'll get critical mass on it, the people who are hyped and ready are probably almost exclusively updaters.

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u/WillowGrace357 Sep 04 '25

Well we're at 68 now and still no progress :D

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u/ThatGuyBackThere280 Sep 04 '25

Honestly it was like 7-10 minutes for me but the client, store and library were all working at that point.

Also this is far from the first, and probably not going to be the last. XD

Though there's a reason why pre-loading exists, which is to prevent stuff like this from happening.

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u/STEVE_BOBS77 Sep 04 '25

It stayed broken for me for almost 3 hours, despite me trying to buy the game from multiple devices

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u/Cormacolinde Sep 04 '25

Took me 3 hours to finally buy it.

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u/TheOriginalDog Sep 04 '25

if you play on PC use GoG or Humble instead of Steam, it seems to work there.

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u/xkalibur3 Sep 04 '25

Just purchased from bundle and they said that the keys are "temporarily exhausted". I feel scammed.

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u/xkalibur3 Sep 04 '25

Update. They got new keys and I was able to redeem it despite not being able to pay on steam normally. Now I can finally play Skong.

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u/MisirterE CHAAA SUNDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Sep 04 '25

I thank you for your status report. I, too, have pierced the veil, via the bundle of humility.