Hollow Knight: Silksong Is Out Now — but It's So Popular It's Crashing Storefronts Including Steam - IGN
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Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now, but the huge rush to buy and download the game has caused some storefronts to crash, including Steam.
  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    10 days ago

    They probably weren’t expecting this much, and didn’t pre-scale the server instances. Having more capacity than you need is expensive.

    • Aqarius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      9 days ago

      They have a procedure to prevent this, but the guy on call was too busy playing Silksong