Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch

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• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This feels like cherry picking (there is probably a better pun in there). The sentiment I saw when the servers went down was overwhelming support for the Dev and the happiness than an indie game is doing with AAA games can’t; bring down steam.

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  • Bryllyg@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At that point it's just click bait then. the media loves to focus on a negative aspect of a generally positive thing to get people upset enough to give them attention. Thank you for the added perspective! I know this game has been super duper looked forward to by so many people and also wonderful that the devs made it at least somewhat affordable on launch. I would imagine they could have easily asked for 10 to 20$ more a copy and it still would have crashed the system.

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    • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Probably whiny gamers not interested in silk song that wanted to use the stores to play their games since you can’t do that with the majority of them

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  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Zykino@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Arn’t AAA preload useless since you still needs to re-download the entire game as day1 patch anyway?

      I mean I almost never buy day1, and also sporadicaly even AA games. So bringing from what I read.

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• glorious_goldfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah I’ve been really annoyed with modern “news reporting” and this article is no different. The store went down for like, a few hours. It was no biggie. It’s frustrating to me how the news exaggerates headlines like “gamers angry as…”, “outrage as”, “fury as” etc. Like they’re telling people to be angry if they aren’t already; telling them they should be.

  I’m not angry. It’s a massive achievement on Team Cherry’s part. A team of three launched a game so in demand that it bought a service ran by a major corporation to its knees. I think this happened in huge part thanks to them actually pricing the game reasonably. Massive props to them.

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• Sirence@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What drama queens. The store was down for an hour tops. After 7 years who cares about one hour longer. It’s nice to see how much demand there is for indie games, they are the last bastion of this art form.

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It broke four hours for me.

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• frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I noticed, and did a lot of refreshing to eventually get it (over 2 hours after launch) but mostly it’s just funny and so so cool that a few Australian guys can make a game and it takes down every store. Straight badass.

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  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are getting charged with DDOSing these companies though.

    /joke

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Stores were down for like an hour. Except for the super fans, most players wouldn’t have noticed.

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• ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This isn’t news

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who was frustrated? I was psyched

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I‘ve read some complains directly from people when it was happening. It‘s honestly not hard to believe that people get frustrated when a service with a good track record on availability spontaneously goes down for a few hours. It‘s okay when you say that you don‘t care though. I wasn‘t personally affected. But it did happen.

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• Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No I was more frustrated with some of the boss run backs. I kept having to down thrust bouncy things in order to avoid spikes. I was trying to find that guy to buy maps, but I didn’t know he went back to town, so I kept exploring more. I ended up losing like 200 rosary beads. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Literally me. Explored the whole Far Fields before finding the guy just sitting on his ass in the starting area.

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    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I should have known from Hollow Knight that the map guy would go to town, but I wasn’t thorough. I’m enjoying this game so far. The bosses feel easier than the jumping parts. I just need to remember to slow down and learn the boss patterns before I run in all crazy.

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  • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shaka literally tells you they will go back to town if you talk to them I think two or three times. That’s just a Soulslike thing ya gotta get in the habit of. Exhaust that dialogue, always.

    But Corpse Runs are just a dumb mechanic for a Metroidvania. Those platforming challenges wouldn’t feel so bad if not for them. Losing 200 rosary hurts. That’s a lot of time grinding that back.

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• shiroininja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just don’t see the appeal.

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  • caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The appeal is that it‘s a great game with beautiful art that runs on just about anything for an affordable price with no modern fuckery attached.

    But if metroidvanias aren‘t your thing, it‘s just not your thing. I‘m also not super obsessed with metroidvanias and played the first game a fair amount but that much, I do, however, get why people just want to hyped for something that doesn‘t spit in their face in return for once.

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    • Eggyhead@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But it’s not hard to find examples of similar games that don’t reach server-crashing levels of popularity. Axiom Verge, for one. Beautiful art, runs on anything, affordable, no modern fuckery. It’s also a metroidvania. Not to imply it’s a better game, but I personally enjoyed it way more than Hollow Knight.

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  • Sirence@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t have to buy it! Wild concept but it’s true

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And you don’t have to like it either!

      Doesn’t stop fanboys from downvoting any criticism. Or from trying to inject the game into completely unrelated discussions today

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  • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s quite normal. There are so many overwhelmingly positive games that don’t interest me, I cannot count. Hades, Fallout New Vegas, Balatro, Slime Rancher, Slay The Spire are some of them. If you like a niche, hold onto that. You don’t have to play or like everything.

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  • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I see the appeal but that appeal doesn’t apply to me.

    They took the Metroid out of my Metroidvania and replaced it with Dark Souls, and that just rubs me wrong.

    I like some Souls-likes (Elden Ring, Lies of P, and Lords of the Fallen reboot are some of my favorite games) but I don’t like souls design creeping into my other genres that don’t need it, especially when some of the mechanics are antithetical to the genre (looking at you corpse runs).

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