Dark Souls Remastered is finally getting its online features back to PC | Biden News

Ten months after Bandai Namco pulled online support for its Dark Souls trilogy on PC, online services for Dark Souls Remastered — the only series entry still unaddressed by the publisher — have finally been restored.

Servers for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, Dark Souls: Remastered, Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, and Dark Souls 3 were “temporarily disabled” back in January following reports that the games were vulnerable to Remote Code. Execution feats began to make headlines.

Several weeks later, Bandai Namco offered an update, saying that the issue would not be addressed until after the release of Elden Ring, but the patience of Dark Souls fans was finally rewarded in August when online features for Dark Souls 3 were restored. Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin followed in October, with the publisher promising reactive servers for the original Dark Souls 2 at a “later date”.

That just left Dark Souls 1. Unfortunately, we now know that the online play of Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition has now been retired permanently “due to an aging system”, but the more recent Dark Souls: Remastered is now back online as of today, finally completing the set.

Bandai Namco didn’t have much to say for itself after today’s switch-on, only telling players, “Thank you again for your patience, understanding and support.” Hopefully purists waiting for the return of the original Dark Souls 2 will soon have a positive update.