Bandai Namco Says It's Still Working on Dark Souls PC Server Issues
gamerant.comNews pertaining to FromSoftware’s hit action RPGElden Ring has dominated gaming-related headlines for the past few months, and for good reason. Elden Ring has been the fastest-selling soulsborne game to date, shifting in excess of twelve million copies in a two-month period and introducing hundreds of thousands of new players to the soulslike genre. However, veteran FromSoftware fans will remember that, just ahead of Elden Ring’s release, the Dark Souls trilogy's PC servers were pulled amid concerns of a serious privacy breach, and publisher Bandai Namco has remained mum on the topic until very recently.
In a post submitted to the Dark Souls 3 subreddit, user Relevant-Heart-1751 shared a response they received from Bandai Namco after contacting the publisher’s support team and inquiring about the state of the Dark Souls servers. The response, while pleasant, is fairly vague, and, though it does state that the development team is actively working to fix the issue, they don’t offer any kind of ETA, nor do they hint at how much progress has been made over the past few months.
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The servers were initially shut down in late January 2022 after a major issue with the PC version of Dark Souls 3 was discovered that would essentially allow those with adequate know-how to run software on, steal information from, and even potentially brick the hardware of players encountered online. Obviously, that’s a legitimate reason to temporarily pull online support, and, once it was discovered that these issues could be replicated in the first two Dark Souls games, online connectivity for the entire trilogy was retracted.
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