I agree that there didn’t seem to be much negative sentiment and it was great to see. Just to point it out though: the reason Silksong crashed the store while even successful AAA-games don’t is that Silksong didn’t have preorders while AAA-games do, meaning there won’t be millions of people trying to purchase the game at the same time the second it releases.
Purchasing and downloading are different services within Steam. You could update and download games just fine during that period. You just couldn‘t buy anything new for a while. And yes I have seen people complain about it on a Discord for example so there was a degree of frustration.
I agree that there didn’t seem to be much negative sentiment and it was great to see. Just to point it out though: the reason Silksong crashed the store while even successful AAA-games don’t is that Silksong didn’t have preorders while AAA-games do, meaning there won’t be millions of people trying to purchase the game at the same time the second it releases.
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.
Purchasing and downloading are different services within Steam. You could update and download games just fine during that period. You just couldn‘t buy anything new for a while. And yes I have seen people complain about it on a Discord for example so there was a degree of frustration.