Silksong crashed Steam the nanosecond it released, but checkout is finally working

Published: January 01, 0001

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9:55 am PT: It looks like the Steam store has now recovered; multiple members of the PC Gamer team have successfully navigated the checkout process, and Silksong's concurrent player numbers have soared to more than 380,000 players. That's a lotta completed transactions. 9:13 am PT: While browsing the Steam Store it looks like it's operating normally, the checkout process still seems to be broken. How many poor souls are still trying to buy a copy of Silksong? 7:59 am PT: An hour after Silksong's launch, and the Steam shopping cart is still erroring out. Meanwhile, Steamstat.us has received 250,000 pageviews in the last hour, which means a whole lot of people have been checking to see if the store is down. If you're still trying to buy Silksong, you've got a lot of company.

It's Silksong release day! Actually, at time of writing, it's literally Silksong release minute, and the sheer unbridled hype of the whole situation has, um, brought Steam to a crashing halt. Whoops!

With 36,000,000 users online, Steamstat.us currently lists the Steam store as operating at a "Very slow" capacity, occasionally ticking over to a concerned, yellow "Bad gateway" message.

It is worth mentioning, of course, that Hollow Knight: Silksong was never up for pre-order. Anyone who wanted day-one access to the game had to turn up at 15:00 GMT on the dot and buy the dang thing. Would allowing pre-orders, rather than forcing the game's incredibly thirsty fans and legions of curious onlookers to all show up at once, have ameliorated this situation? Probably a bit. But it would have been much less funny.

Social media is awash with Steam users rather shocked and/or miffed by the whole thing. "Skong crashed steam😔," writes one. "STEAM FIX YOURSELF PLEASE IM TRYING TO BUY SILKSONG," writes another. "VAI SE FODER STEAM," writes one user in what I สล็อต can only assume is an expression of anguish.

Not to worry, folks. Steam seems—just about—to be whirring back to life as Gabe Newell presumably takes one of his many knives to the servers. But I guess we've learned at least one thing: all those devs who delayed their games to escape the Silksong asteroid strike were probably p31 เครดิตฟรี 188 absolutely right to do so. If nothing else, they wouldn't have been able to sell their games on a crashed store page.

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