Fans Worried as Multiplayer Tag Disappears from Dark Souls on Steam
While the original Dark Souls trilogy are rich single-player experiences, filled with challenging combat and interesting lore, something about Bandai Namco and FromSoftware's games that fans adore are the multiplayer elements. Friends can team up to fight the bosses of Dark Souls, slightly lessening the challenge, or they can fight each other to the death through the game's PvP modes. For many Dark Souls fans, the multiplayer of the games can be as integral to the FromSoftware RPG experience as anything else.
It seems though, that the Dark Souls trilogy may be getting rid of its multiplayer elements. In January of this year, multiplayer functionality was temporarily removed from Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, Dark Souls: Remastered, Dark Souls 2, and Dark Souls 3. Though, this removal may not be temporary after all, as looking at the Steam pages for the games has shown fans that the multiplayer tag is missing from all the games previously listed. FromSoftware is likely anticipating that most fans will be enjoying the Elden Ring multiplayer, rather than that of previous titles.
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Yet, for fans who may have wanted to do a co-op Dark Souls run down the line with friends, removing the multiplayer functionality from the games is quite problematic. While the multiplayer tag has been removed from the games' Steam pages, the Dark Souls trilogy still has reference to multiplayer in the product descriptions of each game. Some fans are hoping that the removal of the multiplayer tags is just another part of the process in fixing the Dark Souls multiplayer, which faced a security breach following an exploit in Dark Souls 3 found early in 2022.
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