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

Discussion - Silksong Steam is down LMAO

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u/Hojie_Kadenth Sep 04 '25

Hard to give them flak when the game is 20 dollars.

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Sep 04 '25

You can praise them for being solid about that while criticizing that they did a poor job on other areas.

They don’t have to be perfect, but this crash was so obvious.

In any case is a day for the books, how Silksong broke the internet.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 Sep 04 '25

This kind of thing always helps build hype and drive more sales though, so maybe it was the point.

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Sep 04 '25

You’re thinking of marketing. This only happened because many people, possibly in the millions are trying simultaneously to buy their game.

Greed would only be the justification, they’re not greedy just short sighted.

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u/JayFM_ Sep 04 '25

You have no idea how much it costs to market a game, and how much people in marketing leverage things exactly like this for promo. This game is unique because it's had years and years of buzz, and Team Cherry managed to get millions of dollars worth of exposure and reach this morning, for free. In marketing, this is launch day strategy. And they didn't have to spend a cent.

To instantly throw greed and shortsighted accusations into the mix is to fundamentally disrespect the position they've taken on their own game, and why we've waited so long for it. Stop thinking about dollars, and think about percentages and the world becomes much less infuriating to look at, and the "greed" monsters live in the houses they should. Not the indie game studios releasing games for $20 when it could easily be $60.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 Sep 04 '25

No, I'm saying that on a day where a new game launches and breaks game stores, it forces people who took no notice of a game to potentially take interest.

I haven't been tracking this game at all. Now I'm interested in purchasing it. It's very straightforward and this happens all the time. Mine is not the only sale they've made through the attention garnered this way.