Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This feels like cherry picking (there is probably a better pun in there). The sentiment I saw when the servers went down was overwhelming support for the Dev and the happiness than an indie game is doing with AAA games can’t; bring down steam.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 4 days ago
[deleted]Zykino@programming.dev 4 days ago
Arn’t AAA preload useless since you still needs to re-download the entire game as day1 patch anyway?
I mean I almost never buy day1, and also sporadicaly even AA games. So bringing from what I read.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Purchasing and downloading are different services within Steam. You could update and download games just fine during that period. You just couldn‘t buy anything new for a while. And yes I have seen people complain about it on a Discord for example so there was a degree of frustration.
Bryllyg@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
At that point it's just click bait then. the media loves to focus on a negative aspect of a generally positive thing to get people upset enough to give them attention. Thank you for the added perspective! I know this game has been super duper looked forward to by so many people and also wonderful that the devs made it at least somewhat affordable on launch. I would imagine they could have easily asked for 10 to 20$ more a copy and it still would have crashed the system.
fox2263@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Probably whiny gamers not interested in silk song that wanted to use the stores to play their games since you can’t do that with the majority of them