Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo
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#2Shared mostly as an example of how sometimes even the big sites can't stay up when too many people try to use them at once.
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#3I believe the Deltarune release this year also crashed a bunch of storefronts. Kind of interesting to compare the sales from these tiny indie developers vs, say, anything that Microsoft's mega game studios have touched in the last few years.
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#4Perhaps allowing preorders for a day or two might have helped spread the load? Or at least moved it earlier so that the checkout load didn't overlap with the load from users downloading.
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#6Oh right! I was wondering why Steam wasn't loading the store properly. That hasn't happened in a while, has it?
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#7There is not a lot of computer games that I would classify as art instead of just entertainment, but Hollow knight is definitely one of those.
It's success is well-deserved.
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#8I believe the Deltarune release this year also crashed a bunch of storefronts. Kind of interesting to compare the sales from these tiny indie developers vs, say, anything that Microsoft's mega game studios have touched in the last few years.
I think that's mainly down to those mega-huge games usually having preorders, and small indie game usually not, for whatever reason.
Neither Deltarune or Silksong could be preordered so everyone was zerg rushing the stores at the same time.
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Silksong is already offered DRM-free via GoG at the same price as all other platforms:
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