The game has been released, and the Steam store promptly shit itself. Took me 10 minutes to buy the game, the download speed is normal though (2GB download).
never played hollow knight, is it worth picking up for my ps5…
I’d say get Hollow Knight first, just because you can probably get it cheaper. After you’re done with that, and you like it, get Silksong. It’s very unlikely if you don’t like one you’ll like the other or vice versa, the games are pretty similar, and they have a couple of things that could be called “polarizing” (like the map).
Unless you want to be part of the “current discussion”, exploring the still new game, maybe you have friends who also play, and you can talk about things you find, then get Silksong.
Also on GOG. DRM-free and presumably without the server issues.
And without regional pricing.
Regional pricing can be a good thing at times, they are generally beneficial to lower currency value countries.
It is a great thing. Sliksong GOG price is 60% higher than Steam in some regions. GOG needs regional pricing.
Steam services that by injecting more DRM, region-locking games (and accounts) to a set of countries like consoles do, and that is incompatible with GOG’s idea. They can let devs decide on pricing without implementing any rudimentary locks, but then it would be inconvinient for wealthy countries’ gamers to ever purchase a game in their own region unless they intent to support dev/platform. It greatly complicates their side of things and would be a very divisive decision for a smaller storefront that is built around their wholesome image.
It locks our anyone who is not from a privileged rich country tho
Bought it on GOG. I like actually owning things.
You don’t own anything on GOG. You only have revocable licenses. This is explicitly stated in their terms of services.
Yes. But you can download an offline installer, that they cannot take away. So it’s sill a big difference.
The steam version of hollow knight allows you to play it without steam installed. Silksong probably is the same
GOG allows you to guarantee that this happens for all games though
Steam also has a method of creating offline backups for every game on it.
Not quite the same, you can only restore those with your Steam Account. For GOG it’s just an installer for the game, which you can run and install anywhere as many times as you want, without needing any access to your account.
You restore them with the app; you don’t need to be online, which means you don’t need to be logged in.
Playing them on the other hand…
Legally, it’s exactly the same. You don’t own anything.
When is the release for the Linux client?
If you mean GOG Galaxy then IDGAF. I download the installers.
According to the store page it’s available right now.
What? Where? Says windows and Mac for me.
The little penguin icon:
I downloaded it and it runs so I can confirm.
Bro all digital storefronts finna be down for the COUNT when GTA VI releases
You’d think these big companies would learn to anticipate these high loads and proactively increase capacity but hey
The Steam Store has gone down every time they do a major sale for over a decade or something. They don’t care about these temporary problems, because they are just that, temporary. Increasing the server capacity for like an hour or something is just not worth it (most likely).
Also, it’s not like the rest of the Steam network is affected when this happens. You can still play your games or download stuff at full speed.
I guess I forgot that companies don’t give a shit about the consumer experience
Consoles aren’t doing much better, Xbox apparently crashed and ps5 currently has a 404 for the game’s page
