Another win for GOG? DRM free and their servers didn’t crash.
Although it is sad to see that people don’t buy enough from GOG for them to crash… I guess people like their DRM.*3 people (used to be 4). Not that that’s less impressive. It’s just worth it to be accurate.
Isnt one of them exclusively doing art?
Are you suggesting that’s not part of game development?
Didn’t you hear? Artists have been obsoleted by AI, so we don’t have to treat them as humans anymore.
From what I hear, that applies equally to coders.
Isnt that part of making a game, not of developing a game?
Wtf is the difference between making and developing a game???
Development is more than writing code.
I thought software development and developing meant different things
No.
Isn’t that part of being a jackass online, not using your brain?
This is prove that direct downloads are ancient deprecated methods of delivery. P2P your releases.
Publishers would still have to distribute authentication keys directly, no? That would cause the same problem here since the storefront is only dealing with the transaction side of things. Downloading is a separate server (I would assume).
Technically, they only need 177(countries w/internet) 3(triangulation) × (≈531) superseeders to kickstart the main files, and deliver decryption keys between the 3 triangulators.
Average corporate slop vibe coded web services vs weakest two man 7 year in development side project
I’m not really sure what you think is gained by treating the hard work of talented coders as “weak” or “a side project”. Small teams dream of making something like HK. These are hall-of-fame level devs that will be remembered for ages. They deserve more respect than that.
Yep, I’m STILL waiting for Steam to start working again. Been refreshing the pages for almost 3 hours, and have gotten as far as the payment screen!
Bought it no problom on gog, been playing for 2 hours now. Also, drm free.
Yeah but no regional pricing. Some places get it for as low as $8 so it’s a significant difference when you’re buying on Steam.
Same price as steam for me so it does have regional pricing, but maybe not in every country
AAA games could never
It’s probably something mundane like AAA releases come with more preparation for peak traffic.
Bought it. Found no easy mode for a dumbass like me. Refunded. Not Team Cherry’s fault. Looked like a great game, but unfortunately not for me. :(
I really wished they added some easy mode, but it’s their decision.
“Easy mode” aka “game journalist mode”
Is it really Silksong behind this? Though I enjoyed the first game I’ve not been desperately waiting for the sequel and I’ve never heard anyone talking about it IRL.
It was the most wishlisted game on steam ever, priced at a very reasonable $20, and it released today after a 6 year wait with almost no press before the last couple of weeks. All the press it did receive was about how the devs were just having a good time, which was insanely endearing.
It’s basically the ultimate indie darling at this point. I 100% believe it could crash all the platforms above.
$20 before regional pricing. Some places can get it as low as $8, which I imagine only is only adding fuel to the fire.
It’s only $20? Hell yeah, add me to the server crush!
Ps store let me buy it and download about 3hrs late.
Everything else on the store seemed normal except that game.
For people confused - https://hollowknightsilksong.com/ - “Silksong” likely refers to a sequel of a game.
My new hobby will be talking about factual things as if they are uncertain.
Not that obvious. I didn’t know what Silksong was until around 80 minutes ago.
I didn’t say it was obvious, only that it was factual. There was no doubt what the term was referring to once you learn the context.
That does seem likely, but I’m still confused. Could you expand some more on what else it could be?
Apon further investigation I do believe that this “Silk song” item being refrenced in a games community might in fact be a video, uh, game.
For people confused, video games are programs you can play on a device that has graphics, sound, and input devices. Otherwise known as “the nintendo”.
I like to play Nintendo on my PC.
This but unironically
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