Online services for Dark Souls III and Dark Souls II are back on all platforms after a 12-day suspension. FromSoftware restored the servers on November 11 and said the investigation and response are complete.
FromSoftware suspended the game servers for all platform versions of Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III on October 30 at 16:00 after a bug was found. The company's FROMSOFTWARE PLAYER SUPPORT account on X announced the suspension and did not disclose the bug's details or its cause. FromSoftware said recovery timing would be announced once it was known. The takedown followed a January 2022 suspension of the PC versions of Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III to investigate security vulnerabilities.
On November 2 FromSoftware said the flaw was security-related and the recovery date was undecided. The company restored online services for both games on all platforms on November 11, ending a 12-day outage. Cooperative and competitive play work again. FromSoftware said the investigation and response are complete and did not disclose what the flaw was.
The two stories settle the outage's length and its resolution. They do not establish a cause beyond the security-related description, and they do not give a timeline for the earlier 2022 suspension beyond the fact that it happened. The current picture is a restored service with no public account of the flaw.
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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. 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.
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FromSoftware suspended the game servers for all platform versions of DARK SOULS II and DARK SOULS III after a bug was found. The company's FROMSOFTWARE PLAYER SUPPORT account on X announced the suspension and did not disclose the bug's details or its cause. FromSoftware said recovery timing will be announced once it is known. In January 2022, the PC versions of DARK SOULS REMASTERED, DARK SOULS II and DARK SOULS III were suspended to investigate security vulnerabilities.