Well, the Dark Souls 3 PC servers are offline. Yes, again — after everyone thought the downtime was over.
Tuesday, players all over the official Steam forums began reporting instances of connection issues with Dark Souls 3. More specifically, connecting to the game’s servers yielded nothing but errors, meaning nobody could partake in multiplayer escapades. Later on Wednesday, developer FromSoftware acknowledged the new service interruption.
“At this time, there is a confirmed issue with DARK SOULS III online play via the Steam platform,” FromSoftware said on Twitter. “We are investigating the source of the problem and will inform you as soon as more details become available.”
While technical hiccups aren’t uncommon in multiplayer titles, the PC servers for Dark Souls 3 went offline back in January, and didn’t come back until late August due to a security threat. So there’s plenty of (somewhat understandable) frustration from fans. Worse yet, the original Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 servers still haven’t gone back online either. Luckily, PS4 and Xbox One players shouldn’t be running into any server woes.
FromSoftware didn’t specify if the current outage has anything to do with the previously mentioned security threats or otherwise, only that the studio is investigating the current problems.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.