simple@piefed.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agoHollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 30 minutes and counting nowstore.steampowered.comexternal-linkmessage-square210fedilinkarrow-up1762arrow-down115file-textcross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.org
arrow-up1747arrow-down1external-linkHollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 30 minutes and counting nowstore.steampowered.comsimple@piefed.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square210fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.org
LET ME IN Edit: It took 3 hours but Steam servers are stable now, I finally bought it. See you on the other side
minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoOnce a server goes down they have to deal with the “thundering herd problem”. When you fail to get the game you keep retrying, which generates even more requests than the initial number that made the server go down in the first place.
Once a server goes down they have to deal with the “thundering herd problem”. When you fail to get the game you keep retrying, which generates even more requests than the initial number that made the server go down in the first place.