{"rewrite":{"id":"r_833ddfc26441687fa3856566","clusterId":"c_97f09c62fe1d7620426357db","slug":"fromsoftware-restores-dark-souls-ii-and-iii-servers-after-12-day-shutdown","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"FromSoftware Restores Dark Souls II and III Servers After 12-Day Shutdown","summary":"FromSoftware announced on November 11 that online services for Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III are back on all platforms. Both games went offline at 16:00 on October 30 after a flaw was found in the game servers. On November 2 the company said the flaw was security-related and the recovery date was undecided. The investigation and response are complete, so the servers were restored. Cooperative and competitive play work again.","whyItMatters":"The 12-day outage shows FromSoftware will pull online play for both Dark Souls titles at once when a server flaw turns out to be security-related, and it restored them without disclosing what the flaw was.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe servers came back on November 11, roughly 12 days after they went down at 16:00 on October 30. FromSoftware said the investigation and response to the security-related flaw are complete. It did not disclose the specific details of the flaw. The company apologized to users and thanked them for waiting through the recovery. Online cooperative and competitive play, unavailable during the suspension, works again on all platforms for both titles.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"FromSoftware kept the reason vague for two days before calling the Dark Souls II and III outage security-related. Players lost co-op and PvP for 12 days with no stated cause until November 2.","twitterPost":"Dark Souls II and III went dark October 30. FromSoftware took until November 2 to call the flaw security-related.","threadsPost":"FromSoftware restored Dark Souls II and III servers on November 11, but the gap matters: the games went offline October 30 and the company only said the flaw was security-related on November 2. Two days of unexplained downtime for co-op and PvP players.","newsletterBlurb":"FromSoftware restored online services for Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III on all platforms on November 11, ending a suspension that began at 16:00 on October 30. The company said on November 2 that the server flaw was security-related and the recovery date was undecided. 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