FromSoftware Restores Dark Souls II and III Servers After 12-Day Shutdown
FromSoftware announced on November 11 that online services for Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III are back on all platforms. Both games went offline at 16:00 on October 30 after a flaw was found in the game servers.
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Reporting from 2 sources: GameBusiness.jp, Game Spark.
Why it matters
The 12-day outage shows FromSoftware will pull online play for both Dark Souls titles at once when a server flaw turns out to be security-related, and it restored them without disclosing what the flaw was.
Key Facts
- FromSoftware restored the Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III game servers on all platforms on November 11.
- Both titles had been offline since 16:00 on October 30, when a flaw was found in the game servers.
- FromSoftware said on November 2 that the flaw was security-related and the recovery date was undecided.
- The suspension lasted about 12 days, and online cooperative and competitive play has resumed.
- FromSoftware has not disclosed the specific details of the flaw.
On November 2 the company said the flaw was security-related and the recovery date was undecided. The investigation and response are complete, so the servers were restored. Cooperative and competitive play work again.
The servers came back on November 11, roughly 12 days after they went down at 16:00 on October 30. FromSoftware said the investigation and response to the security-related flaw are complete. It did not disclose the specific details of the flaw. The company apologized to users and thanked them for waiting through the recovery. Online cooperative and competitive play, unavailable during the suspension, works again on all platforms for both titles.
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