Dark Souls 2 back online after 9 months of downtime, original Dark Souls to stay offline

FromSoftware has good news and bad news for Dark Souls fans on PC Nine months after developer FromSoftware temporarily removed online services for its Dark Souls games on PC, a move caused by a potentially dangerous exploit discovered in its multiplayer component, the studio has brought another of those games back online.

The developer and publisher said that it does plan to restore online services for the PC version of Dark Souls Remastered, released in 2018, but did not provide an estimate.

The Dark Souls Twitter account also noted that online services for the PC version of 2012’s Dark Souls Prepare to Die edition will no longer be supported “due to an aging system.”