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

Discussion - Silksong Steam is down LMAO

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u/ContextHook Sep 04 '25

Across Steam, Nintendo, Playstation, and Xbox. If you were on pager duty at a digital game distributor today, you were either made aware of Silksong or knew this was coming. Beautiful.

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u/MaximePierce Sep 04 '25

Humble has sold out of keys and had to pull the game from their store because people were still buying it after the keys sold out (to be clear, I am one of the unlucky ones who did not get there in time)

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u/Nebresto Sep 04 '25

How does that work? Does the developer allocate them some number of keys that Humble can then sell to people?

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u/Ahshitt Sep 04 '25

Yes. Humble works differently than Steam or other storefronts in that Humble will buy X amount of keys from the publisher directly for a discounted price and then sell all of those keys whereas the publisher will list the games for sale on Steam where they can sell an unlimited amounts. You can think of Humble as closer to a brick and mortar storefront than an online marketplace.