{"id":606777,"date":"2026-03-22T05:35:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fromsoftware-says-its-currently-in-the-process-of-getting-dark-souls-pc-back-online"},"modified":"2026-03-22T05:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:35:26","slug":"fromsoftware-currently-in-the-process-of-getting-dark-souls-pc-back-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/fromsoftware-currently-in-the-process-of-getting-dark-souls-pc-back-online\/","title":{"rendered":"FromSoftware &#8220;currently in the process&#8221; of getting Dark Souls PC back online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fromsoftware-currently-in-the-process-of-getting-dark-souls-pc-back-online.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nOver four months after publisher Bandai Namco pulled online PvP support for the Dark Souls series on PC following the discovery of a serious security vulnerability, FromSoftware has said it&#8217;s &#8220;currently in the process of restoring&#8221; the games&#8217; online servers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPvP servers for Dark Souls: Remastered, Dark Souls 2, and Dark Souls 3 were &#8220;temporarily deactivated&#8221; back in January after reports the games were vulnerable to Remote Code Execution exploits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/dark-souls-online-servers-are-down-following-reports-of-a-security-issue\">began to make headlines<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSeveral weeks later, Bandai Namco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/elden-ring-online-security-measures-now-in-place-for-launch-publisher-confirms\">offered an update<\/a>, saying that &#8220;due to the time required to set up proper testing environments, online services for the Dark Souls series on PC will not resume until after the release of Elden Ring&#8221;. But with Elden Ring having been out in the wild for over two months now, the Dark Souls community was steadily to lose its patience as further updates failed to materialised.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fromsoftware-says-its-currently-in-the-process-of-getting-dark-souls-pc-back-online\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fromsoftware-says-its-currently-in-the-process-of-getting-dark-souls-pc-back-online\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over four months after publisher Bandai Namco pulled online PvP support for the Dark Souls series on PC following the discovery of a serious security vulnerability, FromSoftware has said it&#8217;s &#8220;currently in the process of restoring&#8221; the games&#8217; online servers. PvP servers for Dark Souls: Remastered, Dark Souls 2, and Dark Souls 3 were &#8220;temporarily deactivated&#8221; back in January after reports the games were vulnerable to Remote Code Execution exploits began to make headlines. Several weeks later, Bandai Namco offered an update, saying that &#8220;due to the time required to set up proper testing environments, online services for the Dark Souls series on PC will not resume until after the release of Elden Ring&#8221;. 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