Customers should reward great developers like this.

I didn’t think that Steam was crashable at this point. Great to see that a game made and published by an indie developer is getting so much attention.

Steam has always been a bit flaky at times.

I can’t disagree. But compared to what it was like in 2003, it’s solid as a rock.

If this is what happened over Silksong I just imagine how bad will PSN and Xbox chug once GTA VI is released, and also how badly Steam will crash once it comes to PC.

Honestly, I don’t think it will be this busy.

Silksong was the most wishlisted game on the platform, coupled with the fact they’re selling it for $20 USD

GTA VI will be a huge release, but there is no way Rockstar sells it for anything less than $100 which is going to price a huge amount of people out.

I don’t think it will be 100. That was just speculation from economics junkies who want to wish it into existence because they have Rockstar stock. Mario Kart World has literally not sold at all outside of the Switch 2 bundle specifically because it’s 80. I’m pretty sure every other gaming company saw that and affirmed they wouldn’t make their games more expensive than 70.

I was wondering why the Store page wouldn’t load.

And those number are with it releasing on gamepass day one too

really. i had no idea hollow knight was that popular, for me it was just a plucky little indie metroidvania. i don’t even recall seeing much about it online in recent years. guess the fandom must have kept to themselves.

It appears that they have.

I’ve been replaying Hollow Knight this week, and despite it being years since I played, I still had the muscle memory. So I was just blazing through, I mean once you do the crazy parcore in the castle the other challenges are pretty easy

The skills do not transfer over, I’m almost as bad as I was going into the first game

So far, this game is exactly what was promised… You’re Hornet from the last game, in a new place, with a new story

It’s like playing Hollow Knight for the first time again

This time.

Not always though. Many good to great games fall through the cracks and never make much money.

That’s like 10 million dollars on the first day with just steam. Insane actually

The Hollow Knight fandom has literally been going schizophrenic for the past 6 years because nobody knew or not if Silksong was actually on development, or if it was going through development hell, or even if it was going to be cancelled, and it didn’t help that the devs were SILENT for that entire time. Turns out, the game was actually being made this entire time and only took this long because they kept adding every idea they had into it, so it was actually going through development heaven lol

Path of pain changes a man.

Silksong also didn’t presale and by extension had no way to early download. I think they didn’t want data miners and spoilers.

It wasn’t actually the download infrastructure that crashed steam, it was the payment APIs (my cart didn’t work for a full 2 1/2 hours!)

We were sacrificing people on reddit in the Hollow Knight sub in order to get the game released before I left there. I still volunteer as tribute.

Steam pre-downloads are encrypted.

They probably weren’t expecting this much, and didn’t pre-scale the server instances. Having more capacity than you need is expensive.