In January, Bandai Namco deactivated the PvP servers for the PC editions of the Darkish Souls video games after discovering a severe safety vulnerability in Darkish Souls 3. Bandai stated the service suspension was short-term, however then up to date in February to say that due to the time required to make sure the issue was totally solved, on-line providers for the Darkish Souls video games on PC wouldn’t be restored till someday after the launch of Elden Ring.
Six weeks after Elden Ring’s launch, nonetheless, there’s nonetheless no signal of multiplayer returning to the Souls video games—and actually, it is trying like Darkish Souls multiplayer might be gone for much longer than anticipated, presumably even completely. As first reported by The Outerhaven, all references to on-line play in Darkish Souls: Put together to Die Version, Darkish Souls: Remastered, Darkish Souls 2, and Darkish Souls 3 have been eliminated. They’re now tagged as singleplayer video games solely.
The tags are gone, however references to on-line multiplayer choices stay in a number of the recreation descriptions. Darkish Souls: Put together to Die Version guarantees “PVP area and on-line matchmaking system [with] fast matching for gamers to play 1vs1, 2vs2 and 4 participant battle royal,” the Remastered version gives “The Manner of the Multiplayer (as much as 6 gamers with devoted servers)” and Darkish Souls 2 options an “up to date multiplayer system [that] allows improved on-line interplay to carry ahead cooperative and aggressive play.”
You’ll be able to see the change within the Darkish Souls 2 web page now, in contrast with the way it regarded in February 2019:
It is doable that writer Bandai Namco eliminated the tags to keep away from confusion or accusations of false or deceptive promoting on the Steam web page, but when that is the case it means that the safety points that got here to mild earlier this yr, no matter they’re, are far more severe and tough to deal with than anticipated. Some followers, nonetheless, are involved that it alerts a extra everlasting state of affairs—that Bandai Namco is washing its palms of the state of affairs and shifting on.
I’ve reached out to Bandai Namco to ask what is going on on, and can replace if I obtain a reply. Within the meantime, in the event you’re anxious that Souls multiplayer will not be again, discover hope within the phrases and forbearance of redditor bobface222: “Elden Ring bought 47 gajillion copies. That is going to be their precedence for some time.”