According to fireb0rn, he had no problem buying it on GOG.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now
Submitted 8 months ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1030300/Hollow_Knight_Silksong/
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underline960@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
drspod@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I spent 1 hour after release trying to fight Steam and then just bought it on GOG with no problem whatsoever.
Playing the linux build on Steam Deck and it runs great.
dvlsg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was able to get it on gog without issue as well.
e0qdk@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I just got it a half hour ago on GOG and can confirm – no issues at that time!
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
0 drm, and you can play entirely offline. Gog’s def the better choice here. How’re you going to play silksong after gestures broadly goes to shit?
obazdaa@feddit.org 8 months ago
Well gog doesn’t have a Linux client though, while steam really does a lot for Linux gaming. I used to prefer gog but I’m back to steam for now.
simple@piefed.social 8 months ago
You can still play Steam games without Steam. They only put basic protection on the files that can be very easily bypassed (and yes, it's legal). See: Steam Goldberg emu
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 8 months ago
Buying on GOG is always the play whenever the option is available.
mohab@piefed.social 8 months ago
Gog’s def the better choice here.
Depends on your region. GOG doesn't have regional pricing.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Seamless steam deck support is my guess
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Activision would kill baby to have people want their game so much that it crash Steam server.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I don’t like Activision as much as the next Lemmy user, but let’s not kid ourselves. CoD still sells a shitload every year somehow.
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Yeah, I bought it the day after its release (today September 5th). Played about 1,5H (so glad I “work” from home).
octobob@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I bought it on humble because steam was broken. They ran out of keys shortly after I purchased it, had to wait a few hours until they restocked them. They temporarily took silksong off their store during this time.
So gog might be the only one that wasn’t broke
Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Maybe they allocate a bit more resources before the obvious big games, and the surprise popularity of this one just caught them all off guard.
AnomanderRake@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
It was the most wish listed game on steam I don’t think it caught Steam off guard, Steam just doesn’t care. The servers break every summer sale as well and they’ve never tried to fix it.
Killer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I heard gog had issues too and apparently humbke ran out of keys
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Activision/Blizzard have frequently had game launches where their servers were unavailable due to demand.
But that’s probably more due to terrible network infrastructure, than overwhelming demand!
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Ya, that’s where they crash their own server, people able to get the game but can never log in or find a match or something due to their own unprepareness. This one crash all the major storefront.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Activison: There is no such thing as too successful!
Every online retailer since this morning: Bet?
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 8 months ago
11 dollars ? US dollars ? how does that cole to be ? It’s priced 18 euros in Mayotte, I imagine it’s the same price on mainland France but I haven’t checked
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Regional pricing. Poor countries get lower prices so they could afford buying games and not just pirate them.
M137@lemmy.world 8 months ago
10 million copies is a huge understatement, it’ll surely sell a lot more than that.
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The peak of my career also was definitely when we crashed Steam for a few hours during our EA launch - even though the Steam devs were prepared.
I’m also really happy that Silksong is getting so much love from players. The team behind it truly seems to deserve it.
ripcord@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What other platforms besides Steam, GOG, and Humble are there? Epic?
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Yeah, PS, Xbox, and Nintendo all have server issue due to this.
M137@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“What other platforms are there?” “Oh, you mean for other platforms?”
Uuuh…
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
GoG has been having issues too but not as bad as Steam ironically
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 8 months ago
The majority of PC players must have bought it on Steam. I’d imagine something like 97%
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hot damn, not bad
But yeah every major studio sees these games and thinks underpaying devs, union busting, and AI garbage are gonna get them there somehow.
Meanwhile Steam keeps making self-made millionaires who busted ass on a passion project people adore for years.
JTskulk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Busted ass means farting lol, I think you meant busted their ass.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I heard him, the DF brothers and Concerned Ape are all collaborating on a line of pregrammer desks.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I mean, yes, every studio wants to hit the jackpot and release a solid game that becomes a Movement that can fund about 8 years of development turning a stretch goal DLC into a full game.
Like, I get the intent. But all you did was say “devs should make good games”.
warm@kbin.earth 8 months ago
Steam just lends itself to indie games more, which is good. It could do better, but overall there's a lot of great games that get the recognition they deserve. Triple A finds most of it's success on consoles, where they can easily market it on the front page of the console, rather than just on the store.
PC is (unfortunately?) really getting mainstream now, so we are starting to see a lot morals thrown out the window by consumers just to play the latest AAA slop too.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Because aaa developers are in the business of the business of making games. As in financing, shuffling money, stock appreciation, selling assets at opportune times, etc… They are no longer interested in making games, they’re trying to make infinite money through an established ecosystem.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I have no clue what Hollow Knight is other than than individual people being pumped for this silksong thing. No advertising. No “hype train”.
Here’s hoping success stories like this shake some sense into the AAA gaming industry.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Ya that was the first thing I was going to do this morning was buy silksong. What a struggle just to get it to check out. Now I can’t pay for it 😅
simple@piefed.social 8 months ago
frank@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I got it into my cart!
I can’t open my cart, but it’s in there
chris@l.roofo.cc 8 months ago
Luckily it is not a finite resource.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
But muh preorder!
odseey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
actually, I can’t buy it on humble bundle right now, I think they ran out of steam keys.
underline960@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
New Team Cherry silkpost:
We’ve run out of Silksong stock!
Please check back in [seven years].
See you soon!
simple@piefed.social 8 months ago
Lucky you~
frank@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Same, right back to it but now there’s a ghost item in my cart. Maybe this is worse than having it
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 8 months ago
(On my wishlist for years)
Well now I don’t feel like playing it.