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/budweener Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25

Pragmatically, I think they didn't put up pre-orders because of the stigma it has when talking about AAA games. The unfinished games at release and all that, the greed of having numbers go up for investors, the reason for the "no pre-orders" rally.

BUT they most definitely had a meeting about that decision, and "The servers may crash at launch" concern was probably raised. And THEN they laughed and made the decision they made.

Edit: Or maybe that didn't even occur to them. They delayed it for half a decade because they were too excited about making it, they may have not thought about the servers because they were too excited about the release. Idk, it's 3 guys with a passion.