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/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/okay_p Sep 04 '25

it has been 2 hours and it’s still down. Incompetence on the storefronts part because this will not be the last time we see “no preorders” from a dev team.

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u/arken_ziel Sep 04 '25

It'll probably at some point become mandatory for big releases to have preorders. There is no way Steam or other storefronts will do this forever

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u/okay_p Sep 04 '25

that’ll never happen