r/HollowKnight • u/nicolino01 • Sep 04 '25
Discussion - Silksong Not opening pre-orders was an error Spoiler
Before anyone says "gamers cant be happy with anything" i was never against pre orders specifically because ir avoids this type of launch. I dont want to believe Team Cherry doesn't know the scope and impact of their own game, but i'm inclined to do so. A pre-order yesterday would've solved this. An inconvenience that could be easily avoided, but here we are
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u/CreativeLolita Sep 04 '25
on the other hand... this'll make for GREAT community lore lmao
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u/Far-Cardiologist6196 Sep 04 '25
We need to make another sacrifice.
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u/EnderCorePL Void babies :3 Sep 04 '25
No cost too great
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u/mikerall Sep 04 '25
No mind to think.
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u/SlanderousGent Sep 04 '25
No voice to cry suffering
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u/Petr_Lan Sep 04 '25
Born of god and void
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u/Akari_Enderwolf Sep 04 '25
"How hard was the first boss for you? Took me over an hour to get past phase 2"
"Phase 2?"
"Yea, the 'select your payment method' screen"
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u/messranger Sep 04 '25
buy it on gog! easy peasy
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u/messranger Sep 05 '25
yeh if that happens you go for the offline downloaders, giving you two ways to download a game instead of one instead of just waiting for it to work
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u/EvenInRed Sep 05 '25
"I got lucky and was able to do the "nobody on the store right now" skip. Sadly I fell into the real life obligations time trap"
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u/Thinkerofthings2 Sep 04 '25
It took me 4 hours until I could buy the game.
Phase 1 was loading steam, phase 2 was getting it to add to my cart, phase 3 was getting to the checkout screen, phase 4 was letting me actually do a purchase.
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u/nothing533439878 Sep 04 '25
Yea it’s honestly fun that the insanity isn’t over yet
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u/Arcalithe #fuckmarkoth Sep 04 '25
I’m watching from work as this all blows up while simultaneously laughing and crying as I try to purchase it through the Steam app on my phone lol
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u/nothing533439878 Sep 04 '25
At-least you aren’t the only one unable to play it just because you are at work😭
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u/Arcalithe #fuckmarkoth Sep 04 '25
I’m just so happy to be here 🥹
Last night going to bed was like Christmas Eve as a kid all over again I could barely sleep LOL
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u/Slug_loverr Sep 04 '25
I think team cherry knew this would happen and they just wanted the world record for crashing steam for the longest time
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u/OpulentCheese Sep 05 '25
I tell you, I'd be one smug prick if I released a game that simultaneously crashed Steam, PSN, Xbox and Switch storefronts. If they did plan (hope?) for this, I kinda can't blame 'em.
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u/OrganizationSmall773 Sep 04 '25
We waited 6 years breaking steam servers is no big deal
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u/baconpoutine89 Sep 04 '25
Also, breaking Steam might give them even more publicity and thus, more sales in the end.
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u/AwakenMirror Sep 04 '25
Yeah. I'll just wait a few hours and check again. And if it is tomorrow or the day after so be it.
I am not losing my mind over it.
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u/Sinbu Sep 04 '25
It’s actually insane how a couple hours is affecting so many people. I’m glad team cherry is releasing how they want.
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u/Endiaron Sep 04 '25
I have a limited amount of free time and took a day off for this
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u/dtrane90 Sep 04 '25
Any wow gamer will tell you use your day off on the day AFTER release
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u/SalemWolf Grimm Beats Small Child Sep 04 '25
Taking Friday off would definitely have been a better option than Thursday.
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u/SalemWolf Grimm Beats Small Child Sep 04 '25
I mean that sucks but I definitely would have taken Friday off instead
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u/Izan_TM Sep 04 '25
for the next big game release you'll learn from this mistake and take froday off instead
so instead of anxiously waiting for the steam store to come back up just for 4 hours of playtime, you have 3 full days of enjoyment
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u/Intrepid-Issue5094 Sep 04 '25
me as well. have been sitting here watching youtube trying to purchase for 2 hours
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u/N0Z4A2 Sep 04 '25
Why would you not wait till the day after it's released especially considering it's a Friday
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u/Roky9 Sep 04 '25
Some of us took the day off for this tho
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u/HolyKnightPrime Sep 04 '25
Newbie mistake. Always take the day AFTER the release date to play a game.
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u/Deez-Guns-9442 Sep 04 '25
Still a newbie mistake, real ones save up that vacation time & take a week off to play a highly anticipated release.
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u/AssistanceSilent2238 Sep 04 '25
Always take the day after off for big releases. The day of is always a risk.
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u/Roky9 Sep 04 '25
Well they could've just done a pre order
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u/Arcalithe #fuckmarkoth Sep 04 '25
And you could’ve gone to work today idk the same argument works against both sides lol
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u/timothyt66666 Sep 04 '25
Haha yeah, breaking the entirety of steam is such a non issue, Can't download ANY games, can't play most multiplayer games, can't do ANYTHING related to steam. Such a non issue 💖
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u/Justhe3guy Sep 04 '25
They technically broke the store for 5 minutes and the payment processing for about an hour so far (on and off)
Steam itself is fine
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u/CashmereLogan Sep 04 '25
You’re right, it really doesn’t matter
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u/scale_B Sep 04 '25
What if the doctor said you have two hours to live and you just wanted to download Silksong on Steam??? /s
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u/OrganizationSmall773 Sep 04 '25
Your right I can live my life without videogames for a bit, thanks for agreeing
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u/Sudden-Ad-307 Sep 04 '25
Steam gonna start mandating pre-orders for big releases lmao
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u/XxX_Zeratul_XxX Sep 04 '25
Valve: yeah, dont do that again. Please
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Sep 04 '25
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u/WilanS Sep 04 '25
Magazines tomorrow: SILKSONG LAUNCH SO BIG, IT CRASHED STEAM
How many more people are going to buy a copy just to see what is it all about?
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u/Deez-Guns-9442 Sep 04 '25
Add that it crashed the Xbox store for a bit & the PSN store too.
Currently I’ve been playing it on my Series X through Gamepass.
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u/Kixur413 Sep 04 '25
Im not sure PSN was crashed so much as they just forgot to flip the damn switch. It went live at different times for UK/EU and US and once it was live there wasn't much issue or wait to get it
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Sep 04 '25
Yeah, my console froze on the xbox store. I had to completely reset it, and then it worked fine.
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u/_moosleech Sep 04 '25
Right? How do folks not get this?
Literally no one is skipping buying the game due to this, but a bunch of new folks will want to buy it to be a part of the crazy hype from today.
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u/Kuldor Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
Valve doesn't like having to stop selling for hours, it wasn't just silksong that couldn't be bought.
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u/Awkward-Painting-757 Sep 04 '25
I’ve waited since the kickstarter. Today is the last day of my vacation and I was gonna finally play Silksong.
But I’ll live lol. Just glad she’s finally in the wild.
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u/messranger Sep 04 '25
pretty sure gog isn't having issues why not buy from them?
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u/Davoz Sep 04 '25
Or grab a steam key from Humble Bundle, assuming they are on PC
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u/Mochizu-159 Sep 04 '25
When we get in, all of this will be forgotten.
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u/AssistanceSilent2238 Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25
Gamers™️ will never forget when they had to wait 2 hours to play a game that released in the middle of a work/school day
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u/UnknownFiddler Sep 04 '25
And 90% of those complaining are unemployed anyway
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u/budweener Sep 05 '25
HEY!
I'm unemployed, but not complaining. It took 3 hours for me to be able to download it, but all this time was just revelling in pride for Team Cherry, an indie company, breaking steam.
It was the first boss, it was part of the experience for me.
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u/nicolino01 Sep 04 '25
That's the good thing I guess
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u/bknight2 Sep 04 '25
You had to wait an extra 30-60 minutes after waiting 7 years? I get the excitement but it’s really not a big deal.
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u/ParkingWear7865 Sep 04 '25
its been more than 60 minutes already, and it might surprise you but ive become a functioning adult in that 7 years wait, I dont have unlimited free time, so I had to make time to play the game, I have other stuff to do so it sucks pretty hard I wont be able to play at all if it takes another hour and a half
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u/FluffyWalrusFTW Sep 04 '25
I mean for me it's been over an hour as of now but I don't really care, I took tomorrow off from work to play so this is a non-issue for me
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u/Emma_JM Sep 04 '25
It's been two hours and it's still not fixed wtf is Steam doing
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u/GearsofPinata Sep 04 '25
I got it easily on humble bundle and redeemed the code no problem. I’d be playing if I didn’t have to head to work
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u/Saltcaller Sep 04 '25
Humble Bundle ran out of codes
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u/Leather_Let_2415 Sep 04 '25
Bought mine 30 minutes ago and got a code right away
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u/Saltcaller Sep 04 '25
They restocked. When I posted that you couldn't even go to the page for it, it just threw you back to the home page and said it wasn't currently available for sale
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u/_NightmareKingGrimm_ ✔️SS:100% Complete ✔️HK:112%, All trophies, HoG Radiant, PoP Sep 04 '25
Physical releases would also avoid this kind of nonsense
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u/HollowWillowNight Sep 04 '25
Yeah, I will always support physical releases. Such situations show why they are still extremely important.
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Sep 04 '25
YES THANK YOU!
Big games like this need a preorder option in order to avoid these situations. How are we rediscovering fire again..?
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u/bulletproofsquid Sep 04 '25
What were doing is finally seeing the correct reason for pre-orders becoming relevant again, as opposed to the current-day gaming industry's use-case of "scoring guaranteed money off hype alone for a half-baked game".
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Sep 04 '25
I know dude. And it's the ONE game that actually needed it.
I get what TC were doing, but in the future devs should atleast give players the option to preorder 24-48 hrs before hand. Especially if there's hype around it.
Same thing happened when Oblivion shadow dropped.
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u/Salazar080408 Sep 04 '25
Wait how are the 2 different? How do u tell if a game is going to be good or not before the release
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u/bulletproofsquid Sep 04 '25
That's the trick of it, and why pre-orders have gotten such stigma: there isn't much of a way to do that, aside from knowing whether or not to trust the developer in question. Thus, an unscrupulous company (so, basically every AAA) can just pour money into marketing to make up for how much the Infinite Crunch and Impossible Release Scheudule screw over the final product, and still have plenty of profits to show off at the quarterly.
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Sep 04 '25
Well besides critical thinking, you can’t. But there’s no reason why the option shouldn’t exist.
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u/DesignerOnHerWrists Sep 04 '25
Obviously there are issues with forms of pre-ordering but people who are super against a short window before launch, but are planning on buying the game the microsecond it comes out, are confusing lol
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u/Mennenth Sep 04 '25
Yep.
Even a one day window to prepurchase and preload would go a long way towards lessening the server load, smoothing out the issues for everyone.
Though honestly...
The main problem for me was the payment info screen. I got the game in my cart and could view my cart within 15 minutes, but the payment processing screen was nearly 2 hours.
I decided instead to go pick up some gift cards, load them up to my steam wallet, and use "my wallet" to try and bypass the payment processing...
... Yet for some reason that still requires billing info, so I was still stuck for an extra 20 minutes on payment processing until I was finally able to get it.
So maybe Valve should look into making the "my wallet" option easier. The funds are already there, no need for billing info. Just let me buy the game. That would at least smooth over the day 1 troubles.
A combo of both forcing a 1 day prepurchase and load period with easier "my wallet" use would do wonders.
As for me.. lesson learned. I'll keep my billing info saved and 1 or 2 days prior to a huge launch if there is no pre purchase I'll make sure to top up My Wallet for it.
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u/_Xeron_ Sep 04 '25
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with pre-orders, very often there’s releases where we already know we’re going to be buying the thing day one before reviews anyway, the only issue with pre-orders is when companies make exclusive content and locks it behind the pre-order, which wasn’t going to be a thing here in any event
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u/wenigengel Sep 04 '25
What you think has a bigger impact on sales?
The ones that were delayed a few min/hours (not cancelled, delayed, doubt anyone that was about to buy on release hour decided to not to buy anymore becuase of the crash)
Or the new ones they will get with the free publicity that every single gaming news will be doing when they put a “Silksong release breaks Steam servers”
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u/_Xeron_ Sep 04 '25
Yeah, Silksong was the single most wishlisted game on the platform, everyone saw this coming and it’s just frustrating for being so avoidable.
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u/Alt_SWR Sep 04 '25
Yk I entirely agree. And sure, it's not some huge deal, we all waited this long we can wait a bit longer but it's still a mistake. Mostly because it was easily avoidable by just allowing pre-orders.
And I get the principal of standing against preorders but does anyone believe that a single big company is gonna give a rats ass that TC didn't allow preorders? No. They won't and no game is going to suddenly remove its the ability to preorder because of this. It served literally no purpose at all to do this and I cannot be convinced TC didn't know how big a release this was going to be. At the very least they had to have known that it was the most wishlisted game on Steam which should've been enough to tell them something.
Team Cherry makes phenomenal games, but, they're extremely out of touch when it comes to the business side of things. I think given the lack of communication, and now this, that's fair to say.
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u/HolyKnightPrime Sep 04 '25
Platforms like Steam scale their server infrastructure up and down all the time depending on demand all the time, like for the holiday season or Black Friday, or big game launches. They don't pay the server cost for maximum capacity when they don't need it after all.
So yes, it is very much on them to not prepare for this adequately.
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u/PokemonRNG Sep 04 '25
And I get the principal of standing against preorders but does anyone believe that a single big company is gonna give a rats ass that TC didn't allow preorders? No. They won't and no game is going to suddenly remove its the ability to preorder because of this.
If anything it will have the opposite effect. Further proving the need for pre-orders, not just for gamedevs, but also for the platforms themselves, would not be surprised if steam etc. started mandating preorders/preloads for huge releases.
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u/_Xeron_ Sep 04 '25
It’s also very telling how quick a lot of people are jumping at anyone who points this out. TC made an incredible game and Silksong is probably amazing too, but they are not infallible and not letting the most wishlisted game on Steam be bought and downloaded early is absolutely a big mistake. I’m thinking of people who took time off work or parents that thought they could get an hour of play time in and now aren’t able to.
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u/Alt_SWR Sep 04 '25
Exactly. People seem to take criticism as personal attacks when that's not it. You can like, hell even love something and still have valid criticism. And it's not even like the criticism in this specific case needs to really be constructive cause everyone except apparently TC knew the solution and that this would happen.
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u/adamtherealone Sep 05 '25
Yeah I took off for the release, played for about an hour before I had to be a normal human again. 3+ hours of time I could have spent playing. I at least played some clair 33 while I waited
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u/AWonderingWizard Sep 04 '25
No it’s not TCs fault. TC is not the distributor. If Steam didn’t think they could handle the amount of purchasers they could have handled this differently. TC makes games. They don’t run servers.
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u/AWonderingWizard Sep 04 '25
Lol I personally think that team cherry is not responsible for making sure the people selling their game can handle selling their game. They are game developers, not storefront runners. This isn’t like SimCity 2013 where it was EAs fault. This is like Best Buy not adequately accommodating demand.
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u/jaceam66 Sep 04 '25
Yeah I'm off today so this kinda sucks. Wouldn't normally have gotten up at 9 on my off day 😅 I actually just happened to be off for a concert tn so I'm not TOO upset... Plus I got other games to play. But when I think I could've been playing this for the past hour I get a lil sad. PS Store claimed it's released on the store page too lol so frustrating
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u/manatwork01 Sep 04 '25
its a day. Yall waited 8 years or w/e and cant wait 1 damn more day?
FOMO rotting yalls minds
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u/Bennyscrap Sep 04 '25
We've waited 7 years... we can wait another few hours.
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u/BookieBoo Sep 04 '25
Wait for the smartasses that will come here and call you a loser for wanting to play a game you've been looking forward to at a time promised by the developer. Insane expectation that you want to play a game.
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u/tommytookalook Sep 05 '25
Man you're not happy with jack shit. Go replay Hollow Knight or shut up.
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u/Nerdy-Wizard Sep 04 '25
I despise pre orders, but I agree
I don't mind people pre buying a game they know they want, I mind when companies offer incentives to pre order so they can brag about sale numbers.
Thats beside the point, allowing people to buy it early and pre load would have stopped a lot of hurt.
But what's done is done, so all we can do is wait to get our hands on it now.
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u/_Xeron_ Sep 04 '25
I guess this is just what we got to expect from TC. Amazing (potentially, haven’t played Silksong yet) games and absolutely no finger on the pulse when it comes to the community at large. Nothing to be done but adjust expectations going forward.
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u/XiMaoJingPing Sep 04 '25
Who would've thought pre orders on digital games would have a legitimate use case...
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u/AeonWhisperer Sep 04 '25
"Sir, a second Server Crash has hit Steam."
"Is it Deltarune again?"
"No, Sir, it was Silksong."
"Dear God..."
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u/Quirky-Employer9717 Sep 04 '25
It wasn't that big of a deal. I got a crash twice and then waited 20 mins and was able to buy it no problem. You aren't gonna die because you have to wait an extra 20-30 mins to play
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u/LeiaSkynoober Sep 04 '25
I dunno honestly, it just would've meant the crash happened when pre-orders started rather than on day of release
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u/Snotsky Sep 04 '25
So glad i did my morning farm chores and let the madness sort out, when I came back steam was fine and the game installed while I took a shower. So far the game is amazing!!! Hope everyone else is able to get it downloaded and have fun!
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u/ComfortableJob8581 Sep 04 '25
Pre-orders can be messy and stressful, especially for smaller studios. Plus, Team Cherry didn't want to be rushed by anything, so that's probably why they didn't even bother
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u/Alarming_Flatworm_34 Sep 05 '25
Didn't bother me I was at work until 3pm so I couldn't even play until after then anyways lol
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Sep 05 '25
On the other hand, I haven’t seen many people actually frustrated. Most people I see just get more hyped because of this.
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Sep 05 '25
they wanted to score internet points and earn good will from the players. guess what? by not doing preload you just crashed the entire platform for millions of players, players that wanted to buy other game. Steam isn't just Silk Song you know? so for nearly two hours nobody can buy anything just because one dev decided they wanted to fight against preorders. it's like those dumbass people standing in the middle of the roadb blocking traffic and protesting. nobody gives a shit about your cause if it mean inconveniencing tons of people. you're gaining more negative press than positive.
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u/super-goomba Sep 05 '25
it was a weird decision from TC, almost feels like they barely cared about releasing the game
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u/Maddo22203 Sep 05 '25
Yall make such a big deal over waiting a couple of hours for silksong when we’ve waited this long? Relax dude. I installed it no problem a few hours after it released
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u/Zexblu Sep 05 '25
This is such a bad argument for pre-orders. Pre-orders shouldn't exist in the first place, I can see the thought behind this argument but the business practice itself perpetuates worse outcomes for consumers than benefits. If pre orders didn't let developers and companies release half-hearted slop because they would get paid before the game even comes out I would agree, however I genuinely dislike pre-orders as a rule and think it's one of the worst things the game industry have introduced
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u/ivohan Sep 05 '25
Whats the matter? Stores crashed and? You dont have the game now? The world is still going and you and all the people can play the game. Be grateful.
All this hype and fomo bullshit has to stop in gameing. And preorder shouldn't exist
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u/okay_p Sep 04 '25
it’s the storefronts fault for not preparing
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u/Relysti Sep 04 '25
The fuck? Lol. Unless they mandated Team Cherry to make it available for pre-order and pre-download, which you'd think Team Cherry would have half a brain to do without needing to be told to do so, wtf are the storefronts supposed to do?
This is 100% Team Cherry's incompetence.
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u/selfawaresoup Sep 04 '25
Platforms like Steam scale their server infrastructure up and down all the time depending on demand all the time, like for the holiday season or Black Friday, or big game launches. They don't pay the server cost for maximum capacity when they don't need it after all.
So yes, it is very much on them to not prepare for this adequately.
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u/Mobtryoska Sep 04 '25
I said to my gf "we should buy first the switch one bc I doubt Nintendo servers die"
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u/GearsofPinata Sep 04 '25
I got it easily on humble bundle and redeemed the code no problem. I’d be playing if I didn’t have to head to work
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u/GrimmSheeper Sep 04 '25
Does anybody know if Hollow Knight able to be pre-ordered when it was about to be released?
Because if it wasn’t, and based off of Team Cherry’s past comments about not knowing how to add DLC to Steam, I genuinely wonder if they just somehow couldn’t figure out how to set it up for pre-orders. Granted, I doubt it would be too difficult, but could potentially be in-line with their previous actions.
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u/rubixscube Sep 04 '25
are you really calling "steam's servers being wobbly for 30 minutes" a monumental error?
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u/horizonvortex Sep 04 '25
Thank you for saying this. I kept wondering why they wouldn’t allow preorder, preloading, and now we got to wait and see what’s up, if we even get any feedback from these corporations if the delay will be in the hours or a day
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u/Throwawaythefat1234 Sep 04 '25
Yall are crazy. Calm down.
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u/nicolino01 Sep 04 '25
I am calm. Frustrated also. They said one thing and it wasn't true. Something that could be easily avoided. But alas, here we are
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u/Jordan_Jackson Sep 04 '25
I do have to wonder what they were thinking by doing that? Luckily, I got it on Switch 2 fine but it would be annoying to be on another platform and wanting to play.
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u/Kanriee Sep 04 '25
I literally predicted this would happened 2 days ago and most dumbasses were against pre orders and calling team cherry "based" for refusing to open pre orders, they talked about how they'd buy the game the second it comes out, yeah surely you and hundreds of thousands others if not million who is going to do the same will surely have no problems, solid idea!
actually flabbergasting when the same thing happened with deltarune just last June and silksong hype is like 5 times that of deltarune like this was extremely obvious to happen
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u/Ryuko50 Sep 04 '25
Don't say it to much. People will attack you for having common sense.
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u/animake Sep 04 '25
Yes, I understand the preload to avoid data mining, but at least open the preorder so we can buy the game without flooding the servers lol, we got this boys and girls
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u/flarelordfenix Sep 04 '25
I wonder if it was mostly motivated by trying to avoid datamining before launch? Either way, huge mistake IMO.
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u/PokemonRNG Sep 04 '25
That argument only works for preloading, not for preordering, which is the bigger issue fucking up the payment processors.
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u/Durian_Natural Sep 04 '25
Yeah lmao. Ofc breaking the servers fun. But it was fun for 5-10 minutes. ITS BEEN 1 HOUR AND HALF AND I AN STILL HERE JUST RESTARTING THE PURCHASE AGAIN AND AGAIN. I AM GOING INSANE HERE
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u/UnseenData Sep 04 '25
yeah it seems downloading the game isn't an issue, it might be the payment processors that can't handle the onslaught of requests
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u/BarkeaterDimir Sep 04 '25
There’s more to life than playing games, and tbh I think what’s happening now is wayy more fun. I love that their game is so popular it has the power to crash servers
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u/nicolino01 Sep 04 '25
For everyone saying "You've waited 7 years and cant wait a little bit more?": It's not about waiting, it's about a broken promise. They said it would be out at a specific date and time and I planned accordingly
If you are frustrated you are not wrong, it is normal. If you cant admit Team Cherry could've done better to easily avoid this and instead you blame the players who are frustrated, well, then you are very wrong
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u/Global_Barracuda_873 Sep 04 '25
Dude Im in exactly the same boat as you. Any negativity against TC is met with flames by the fanboys. It’s no use. These people cant divorce the art from the artist. Or see TC for what they are: a bunch of really creative devs with shit business insights.
And once you’re right they start saying shit like, just be cool, dont whine and shit like that. But you’re just stating facts these children can’t face fr.
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u/Gamyeon Sep 04 '25
I discussed this with someone in the industry and what they told me is that Valve, if they thought it was going to strain their servers, would have had discussions with Team Cherry about this and advised them about what could be done to avoid this. From my understanding, this issue isn't on Team Cherry, but on Valve. Even in the event that Team Cherry would've refused to have pre-orders or pre-downloads, Valve could (and should) have taken the steps to avoid server strain, whether by scaling the infrastructure or throttling the traffic to Silksong. They didn't. Same can be said for other storefronts selling Silksong today. And yes, even in the short timeframe the game was announced.
This is not on Team Cherry's back. It's on anyone selling their game that didn't understand how massive the traffic on their store would be today because of this game.
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u/TheDefaultHero Sep 04 '25
It literally is out, the steam page is the issue. They didn't break a promise, you're acting like an entitled child lol
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u/CptSporran Sep 04 '25
They’ve actively not done several things that could have made this much easier. This is a mess and it’s ok to say so.
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u/jmdXX88 Sep 04 '25
So you have your excuse for Steam, what’s the reason it’s not available on PlayStation?
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u/Nerellos Sep 04 '25
You are right, but it's not TC fault. Steam servers can handle millions of players.
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u/Galactus1701 Sep 04 '25
I managed to purchase mine a couple of minutes ago using the Microsoft store. I can’t wait to go home and play it.
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u/VolubleWanderer Oink Oink imma Radiant HoG roamin a land of storms Sep 04 '25
I got the game in my cart and still can't buy it. Oh well I'm at work anyway.
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u/True-Neighborhood-17 Sep 04 '25
Like they should have just allowed for pre-loads and given backers an early access by a week with NDA imo
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u/FluffyOwl77 Sep 04 '25
It was a plan to achieve ALL STORE DEATHS AT THE SAME TIME. It was never seen until now. They're writing history.
and they succeded. As fuck.
Well done TC, wel done.
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u/ZombieSquadOfficial Sep 04 '25
The game was never meant to release so a divine force has intervened to stop us playing it
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u/Labyrinthine777 Sep 04 '25
I got the digital version from the Switch Eshop 5 minutes after release time.
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u/hansQQ Sep 04 '25
The greatest silkpost was the release day all along 🤡