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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.

it is sad to see that people don't buy enough from GOG for them to crash.

1. Several people reported problems with GOG, it's just not listed in OP for some reason.
2. Every platform scales their servers to their userbase so even if GOG had a dozen users they could still crash the servers by all downloading at the same time.

It's probably something mundane like AAA releases come with more preparation for peak traffic.

It's a fun game. People rave about it as if it's a masterpiece, but it didn't change my life or anything. Just go in expecting it to have a difficulty curve and some odd design choices.

Personally I hate it.

Just keep in mind that not everyone likes it and the fanbase likes to suppress criticism.

So buyer beware, and keep an eye on you're play time. If you're not enjoying it in the first 2 hours, feel free to return it if you're playing on Steam, like with any game

I've gone back to my 4th play through of Hollow Knight before starting Silksong. There are very few things in the world that will deeply affect your life, so don't let over hype ruin a good thing......that being said, this is easily one of my top 3 games and I'm not one to replay single player games, yet here I am.

Downloading it was actually no problem, paying was.

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).

Bought it no problom on gog, been playing for 2 hours now. Also, drm free.

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.

If you ever feel like giving it (or any other soulslike) another shot, I'd recommend putting less pressure on "beating" it or how much you're "failing". The joy of these games is the process, not (exclusively) the result - learning the sequences, the rhythms, and steadily getting better. That's what these games are all about. If you're just rushing to beat everything as fast as possible, you're missing out.