Before the launch of Dark Souls 2's fantastic The Lost Crowns DLC trilogy, FromSoftware released a set of promotional weapon reskins, meant for the title's marketing purposes. However, these weapons were never made available for the "remastered" version of the game.
Apparently, fans of the second mainline entry in the series are now signing a petition online to urge FromSoftware to bring those promotional weapon reskins back to the game, more than a decade after the game and its DLC expansion's launch.
The petition is courtesy of Dark Souls content creator Illusory Wall, who made a video detailing the weapon reskins that were made obtainable for a limited time in vanilla Dark Souls 2 before the launch of their three expansions, however, were shockingly missing from the Scholars of the First Sin version of the game.
In the lead-up to the release of each of the three DLCs of Dark Souls 2, a chest in the hub area of the game called the Majula would get updated to include a unique reskin of one of the game's base weapons. These weapons are usually some of the iconic ones of the Souls series.
With the Crown of the Sunken King expansion, players got a dark blue steel Murakumo Curved Greatsword, and with the later additions to the game, FromSoftware added a snow-white Katana and even a one-handed blade replicating the iconic Moonlight Greatsword.
After each weapon cycled out, which was approximately right around DLC’s launch, the reskinned promo weapons were made unobtainable by normal means. Players assumed FromSoftware would eventually add the game to the "Scholars of the First Sin" re-release of the game, but that did not happen, making the reskins a relic of the past, something only select players have access to in the vanilla
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