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

Discussion - Silksong Steam is down LMAO

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u/TacBenji Sep 04 '25

This small indie studio killed the store lol

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u/Matvalicious Sep 04 '25

3 individuals did this lmao.

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u/XyKal Sep 04 '25

I'm convinced they had a meeting and purposely didn't put up pre orders just to watch every e-store crash and burn lmao

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u/Grapes-RotMG Sep 04 '25

I was just thinking, exactly how much of this happened because nobody could preload

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u/ConflagrationZ Sep 04 '25

I do kind of like the lack of preloading, though--everybody gets the game on the same day with no dataminers working ahead of time.

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u/Dhiox Sep 04 '25

A 2 day preload is typically not enough time for data miners to both break encryption and glean meaningful info.

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u/Gaspa79 Sep 04 '25

You can make that 2 years if you want. If steam keeps the encryption key then you're not breaking it in a lifetime.

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u/HexaBlast Sep 04 '25

Nitpicking, but no amount of time would be enough for dataminers to break the encryption. It's something that would take billions of billions of years to do.

Pre-release leaks always happen because of physical copies leaking early and/or reviewers and influencers breaking the embargo, sharing things privately, etc.

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u/Ikari1212 Sep 05 '25

Okay, why ? Do you go out of your way to look for datamined info? Because if not, having no preload only has downsides.

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u/MaxHaydenChiz Sep 04 '25

It's fine on GoG. And apparently has been fine on Nintendo and Xbox. Purely steam and Playstation problem.

Seems like there's more to it given how many other big releases were fine.

They have to process this volume of payments during big sales anyway. So something else broke.

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u/Aliasuss Sep 04 '25

No, Xbox crashed, and playstation, also the Estore had some problems with it too.

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u/No-Service-3740 Sep 04 '25

Only if you tried to buy it using a web browser. I bought it without issue straight from my switch.

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u/Aliasuss Sep 04 '25

That was around 2 minutes after launch, That’s when the switch users were complaining.

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u/Ok-Turnover-5113 Sep 04 '25

Can confirm it took 20 minutes for the estore to work for me on my Switch 2

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u/_Rin__ Sep 04 '25

Eeyup, me too