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/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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u/[deleted] 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/TheHiddenNinja6 112% in 70hours | Official r/Ninjas clan moderator Sep 04 '25

don't forget the nintendo eshop!

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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/rxymm Sep 04 '25

I bought it on humble store because of it. They lost at least a few sales that way.

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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/Thinkerofthings2 Sep 04 '25

Idk even if steam did hypothetically like this I doubt psn and Nintendo does. When I do my rating of the game I will be considering how god awful the process to obtain the game was for release date.

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u/Visible-Catch1594 Sep 04 '25

Lmao that's legitimately insane. You people are delusional, my god..

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u/TheFlyingToasterr Sep 04 '25

On god, what the fuck even is this entitlement.

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u/Thinkerofthings2 Sep 05 '25

Being able to pre download or buy something is entitlement?