alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agoHollow Knight: Silksong Is Out Now — but It's So Popular It's Crashing Storefronts Including Steamwww.ign.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1256arrow-down14
arrow-up1252arrow-down1external-linkHollow Knight: Silksong Is Out Now — but It's So Popular It's Crashing Storefronts Including Steamwww.ign.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-square4am@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoSilksong 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!)
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoSteam pre-downloads are encrypted.
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!)
Steam pre-downloads are encrypted.