Excuse me when I say that on this day, From Software literally shat out the game in a hilariously amateurish, depressingly optimized and downright embarrassing way for the company. One might be forgiven for thinking I’m exaggerating with those terms, seeing how this is a port of one of the greatest RPGs of this generation. Well, to be honest, it did seem that one could get over all the earlier-announced porting issues (framerate in certain areas not being fixed, not too many graphics options, no updates textures) and indulge themselves in this amazing game, however, it would be terribly wrong.
"Online features for the PC version of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (DX11) have been reactivated.
Online features for the base version of #DarkSouls II for PC (DX9) will be made available at a later date.
Our thanks for your continued patience and support."
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition saw the Souls series debut on PC 10 years ago today, alongside Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 re-releases.
And it was garbage.
Luckily it was easily fixed by a modder who actually wanted a good product to be sold to people.
Dark Souls tweets: "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."
They told us it was gonna be this way since the beginning: a 1:1 console port. But I undestand the deception because, after all, it's a PC game. Could be a lot better.
Definitely. It's not even up to par with PC standards of 7+ years ago.
Sad but truth, even graphics are terrible.
Even if the modders fix the resolution and frame rate issues, this is still a no buy. Not going to support a developer because a modder helped fix a broken game.
If fixes are patched in by From Software themselves, then I may consider buying it, but not until then.