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It’s Silksong release day<\/a>! Actually, at time of writing, it’s literally Silksong release minute<\/em>, and the sheer unbridled hype of the whole situation has, um, brought Steam to a crashing halt. Whoops!<\/p>\n

As I type these very words, attempting to access the Steam store results in an E502 L3 error message and a bashful “Something went wrong.” I know what went wrong, Steam, everyone clicked the Silksong button at the same time!<\/p>\n

With 36,000,000 users online, Steamstat.us<\/a> currently lists the Steam store as operating at a “Very slow” capacity, occasionally ticking over to a concerned, yellow “Bad gateway” message.<\/p>\n

It is worth mentioning, of course, that Hollow Knight: Silksong was never up for pre-order. Anyone who wanted day-one access to the game had to turn up at 15:00 GMT on the dot and buy the dang thing. Would allowing pre-orders, rather than forcing the game’s incredibly<\/em> thirsty fans and legions of curious onlookers to all show up at once, have ameliorated this situation? Probably a bit. But it would have been much less funny.<\/p>\n

Social media is awash with Steam users rather shocked and\/or miffed by the whole thing. “Skong crashed steam\ud83d\ude14,” writes one<\/a>. “STEAM FIX YOURSELF PLEASE IM TRYING TO BUY SILKSONG,” writes another<\/a>. “VAI SE FODER STEAM,” writes one user<\/a> in what I can only assume is an expression of anguish.<\/p>\n

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Not to worry, folks. Steam seems\u2014just about\u2014to be whirring back to life as Gabe Newell presumably takes one of his many knives to the servers. But I guess we’ve learned at least one thing: all those devs who delayed their games to escape the Silksong<\/a> asteroid strike were probably absolutely right to do so. If nothing else, they wouldn’t have been able to sell their games on a crashed store page.<\/p>\n

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It’s Silksong release day! Actually, at time of writing, it’s literally Silksong release minute, and the sheer unbridled hype of the whole situation has, um, brought Steam to a crashing halt. Whoops! As I type these very words, attempting to access the Steam store results in an E502 L3 error message and a bashful “Something went wrong.” I know what went wrong, Steam, everyone clicked the Silksong button at the same time! With 36,000,000 users online, Steamstat.us currently lists the Steam store as operating at a “Very slow” capacity, occasionally ticking over to a concerned, yellow “Bad gateway” message. It is worth mentioning, of course, that Hollow Knight: Silksong was never up for pre-order. Anyone who wanted day-one access to the game had to turn…<\/p>\n

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