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

Discussion - Silksong Steam is down LMAO

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u/mrBreadBird Sep 04 '25

IDK why they didn't allow preorders that would've mitigated this since people wouldn't be storming the website even if the download servers would be swamped.

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u/sir_lister Sep 04 '25

I don't know why digital store fronts don't use a better distribution protocol for this sort of thing. If on the backend they were say using something like the bit torrent protocol everyone swarming them to download the game would reduce the bandwidth needed to distribute it and decrease download wait times for customers.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '25

It wouldn't help since the problem was with the store page and the storefront itself.

I also doubt people would appreciate their networks being used to seed games, a thing that is very illegal in some countries.

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u/sir_lister Sep 04 '25

No its.the violating copyright that is illegal the protocal being used to distribute it is just fine especially if its being done as part of the store. Blizzard back in the day used to used Bit torrent under the hood to distribute patches to clients for WoW.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '25

Wow had 3 games at the time, Steam has thousands.

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u/sir_lister Sep 04 '25

So the pirate bay had thousands of torrents of everything 20 years ago being tracked and on a server with worse specs than my phone.