Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store

Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store (store.steampowered.com)
from Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip to gaming@beehaw.org on 04 Sep 14:14
https://lemmy.zip/post/47894766

The game has been released, and the Steam store promptly shit itself. Took me 10 minutes to buy the game, the download speed is normal though (2GB download).

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PonyOfWar@pawb.social on 04 Sep 14:17 next collapse

Also on GOG. DRM-free and presumably without the server issues.

JoMiran@lemmy.ml on 04 Sep 14:30 next collapse

Bought it on GOG. I like actually owning things.

byzerium@feddit.org on 04 Sep 14:58 next collapse

When is the release for the Linux client?

grte@lemmy.ca on 04 Sep 15:07 next collapse

According to the store page it’s available right now.

Minnels@lemmy.zip on 04 Sep 15:41 collapse

What? Where? Says windows and Mac for me.

grte@lemmy.ca on 04 Sep 15:49 collapse

The little penguin icon:

I downloaded it and it runs so I can confirm.

Minnels@lemmy.zip on 05 Sep 09:34 collapse

Thought you meant gog galaxy client.

JoMiran@lemmy.ml on 04 Sep 16:50 collapse

If you mean GOG Galaxy then IDGAF. I download the installers.

SomethingBurger@jlai.lu on 04 Sep 15:13 collapse

You don’t own anything on GOG. You only have revocable licenses. This is explicitly stated in their terms of services.

denial@feddit.org on 04 Sep 15:29 collapse

Yes. But you can download an offline installer, that they cannot take away. So it’s sill a big difference.

atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone on 04 Sep 16:26 next collapse

The steam version of hollow knight allows you to play it without steam installed. Silksong probably is the same

GOG allows you to guarantee that this happens for all games though

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 04 Sep 16:58 collapse

Steam also has a method of creating offline backups for every game on it.

PonyOfWar@pawb.social on 04 Sep 17:15 collapse

Not quite the same, you can only restore those with your Steam Account. For GOG it’s just an installer for the game, which you can run and install anywhere as many times as you want, without needing any access to your account.

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 04 Sep 17:26 collapse

You restore them with the app; you don’t need to be online, which means you don’t need to be logged in.

Playing them on the other hand…

SomethingBurger@jlai.lu on 04 Sep 16:52 collapse

Legally, it’s exactly the same. You don’t own anything.

denial@feddit.org on 05 Sep 15:11 collapse

As I said: Yes.

But legally it’s not much different with physical media of games or music as well. You don’t own it. Just a copy you are allowed to use in some ways (but not others).

But besides that in reality there is a big difference, if you are still able to play it or not, if the servers are shut down.

mohab@piefed.social on 04 Sep 14:55 collapse

And without regional pricing.

princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 04 Sep 15:55 collapse

Regional pricing can be a good thing at times, they are generally beneficial to lower currency value countries.

mohab@piefed.social on 04 Sep 16:15 collapse

It is a great thing. Sliksong GOG price is 60% higher than Steam in some regions. GOG needs regional pricing.

altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 05 Sep 03:58 collapse

Steam services that by injecting more DRM, region-locking games (and accounts) to a set of countries like consoles do, and that is incompatible with GOG’s idea. They can let devs decide on pricing without implementing any rudimentary locks, but then it would be inconvinient for wealthy countries’ gamers to ever purchase a game in their own region unless they intent to support dev/platform. It greatly complicates their side of things and would be a very divisive decision for a smaller storefront that is built around their wholesome image.

qweertz@programming.dev on 06 Sep 11:36 collapse

It locks out anyone who is not from a privileged rich country tho

altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 07 Sep 11:17 collapse

I’m not in one of them, so I do know. I’m just sceptical GOG would do that with such complications. And I’m supporting the way of correcting it with piracy or more affordable prices rather than region locking that would lead to it’s own shenanigans.

JoMiran@lemmy.ml on 04 Sep 14:26 next collapse

Holy shit. The app can’t load content. 😂

GammaGames@beehaw.org on 04 Sep 14:39 next collapse

Consoles aren’t doing much better, Xbox apparently crashed and ps5 currently has a 404 for the game’s page

apotheotic@beehaw.org on 04 Sep 17:24 next collapse

You’d think these big companies would learn to anticipate these high loads and proactively increase capacity but hey

Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip on 04 Sep 23:21 collapse

The Steam Store has gone down every time they do a major sale for over a decade or something. They don’t care about these temporary problems, because they are just that, temporary. Increasing the server capacity for like an hour or something is just not worth it (most likely).

Also, it’s not like the rest of the Steam network is affected when this happens. You can still play your games or download stuff at full speed.

apotheotic@beehaw.org on 05 Sep 08:23 collapse

I guess I forgot that companies don’t give a shit about the consumer experience

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 04 Sep 20:24 next collapse

Bro all digital storefronts finna be down for the COUNT when GTA VI releases

Abraxas@feddit.uk on 05 Sep 22:42 collapse

never played hollow knight, is it worth picking up for my ps5…

Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip on 06 Sep 08:56 collapse

I’d say get Hollow Knight first, just because you can probably get it cheaper. After you’re done with that, and you like it, get Silksong. It’s very unlikely if you don’t like one you’ll like the other or vice versa, the games are pretty similar, and they have a couple of things that could be called “polarizing” (like the map).

Unless you want to be part of the “current discussion”, exploring the still new game, maybe you have friends who also play, and you can talk about things you find, then get Silksong.