Dark Souls Down for DS2, DS3 and DS Remastered on PC as FromSoftware Takes Servers Offline Due to Exploit

Dark Souls Down

If you’re a Dark Souls fan and you’re playing one of the franchise’s games online but find that you can’t, it’s not you, but Bandai Namco. Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 3, and Dark Souls Remastered down time has began today, and it’s by design.

Here’s the announcement from FromSoftware:

PvP servers for Dark Souls 3, Dark Souls 2, and Dark Souls: Remastered have been temporarily deactivated to allow the team to investigate recent reports of an issue with online services.
Servers for Dark Souls: PtDE will join them shortly.

We apologize for this inconvenience.


This downtime does not affect PvP servers for Xbox or PlayStation consoles.

As mentioned in the announcement, this server outage does not affect PlayStation and Xbox platforms, and targeted for PC.

In case you didn’t know, the “issue” FromSoftware is referring to is the “remote control” exploit we reported on yesterday where hackers could use the game to gain access to players’ PCs!

It’s been mentioned in yesterday’s report that this exploit will most likely affect Elden Ring, too, so we’re hoping this gets sorted, and the upcoming action-RPG’s online functionality won’t get compromised.

To know how the game’s shaping up, go read our hands-on impressions of the latest tech test for the game.

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