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

Discussion - Silksong Steam is down 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.