Back in January, the official Dark Souls Twitter account confirmed that the web servers for the sequence on PC could be taken down so as to examine reviews of a safety exploit linked to the video games’ netcode. While servers for Dark Souls III finally returned on-line final month, alongside an announcement at this time that Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin’s servers has joined it, comes the affirmation that when Dark Souls: Remastered’s servers return up sooner or later – the unique PC launch of Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition will not be becoming a member of them, attributable to an “growing old system”.

While Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition was unlisted across the similar time as Dark Souls: Remastered’s launch, it is price noting that the Remaster got here with a lot of graphical modifications. For some followers of the sequence, the unique PC launch of Dark Souls – alongside DSFix – has remained the preferable expertise since. With at this time’s announcement, quickly the one model of the unique Dark Souls playable with multiplayer on PC would be the remaster.

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition was launched on PC on August 24, 2012.