After a protracted 7 yr wait, Hole Knight: Silksong has arrived! Nicely, sort of, as a result of the launch encountered a few errors, together with a Sony cock-up and the sport being too rattling standard for its personal good, leading to storefronts going up in metaphorical flames.
First, an error on Sony’s finish resulted within the sport being unavailable to purchase for many individuals. The problem was lastly resolved, however solely after an additional 2 hours of ready, as a result of apparently 7 years of ready simply wasn’t sufficient struggling for Sony’s liking.
On high of that, the sport’s reputation, together with an absence of pre-load choice, resulted in a bunch of storefronts struggling to deal with the surge of people that needed to get their arms on the sport. Individuals reported seeing errors on Steam when attempting to buy it, whereas each the Nintendo and Xbox storefronts had outages and varied error messages popping up, too.
It looks as if issues are calming down now, although, and individuals are capable of purchase and play the hotly anticipated sport. In actual fact, SteamDB is displaying a peak participant depend of over 350k individuals, which is able to undoubtedly develop much more throughout the following few hours. May it break one million?
So whereas this has not been the smoothest launch in historical past, none of this was actually the fault of Workforce Cherry, and has truly solely underscored simply how insanely standard Hole Knight: Silksong. Though after spending a while on the subReddit, cult-like is perhaps extra correct. I jest. Principally.
