alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 6 months agoHollow Knight: Silksong Is Out Now — but It's So Popular It's Crashing Storefronts Including Steamwww.ign.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down14
arrow-up1225arrow-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 · 6 months agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-square4am@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-26 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-up6·6 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.