Silksong launch instantly crashes steams purchacing servers (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've never seen the hype so real that it instantly crashes steams purchace processing servers.

You can get it on GOG and Humble Bundle still

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Good ol' hug of death. This is a good problem to have lol

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

I agree with you but at the same time for steam enjoyers like me its feeling like:

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

God damn, even when Black Myth Wukong launched with 2.5 million players on the first few days the servers didn't shit themselves.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

After what felt like my 10th try trying to buy the game in 30 minutes and getting an error. Steam sent me a message locking me out of my cart for over an hour.

I ended up buying the game on GOG.

this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2025

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