Sunday, March 31 will be a sad day for Dark Souls fans, as that’s the day the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Dark Souls 2 servers (the game’s first two original servers) will go down. dynamic. FromSoftware’s Dark Souls trilogy received widespread acclaim among gamers and popularized the Soulslike genre that remains popular to this day. In particular, Dark Souls 2 is a different version and is loved by many people.
Dark Souls 2 was not directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, who was the director of the original game and Dark Souls 3. Instead, the legendary director only took on a supervisory role with Dark Souls 2. The game has many many significant differences from the original Dark Souls games, which laid the groundwork for the development of Dark Souls 3 and other Soulslike games that followed.
Regardless of the mixed reviews Dark Souls 2 receives, March 31 will still mark the end of an era for the game. On that date, FromSoftware will shut down Dark Souls 2 servers on PS3 and Xbox 360, the game’s original platforms. This will effectively prevent PS3 or Xbox 360 users from experiencing Dark Souls 2’s PvP and co-op modes, although offline play will still be available.
The good news is that Dark Souls 2 lovers can still access it on other platforms through the Scholar of the First Sin edition. Released about a year after the original Dark Souls 2 came out, Scholar of the First Sin brought the game to PS4 and Xbox One. This version of Dark Souls 2 still retains the online servers so gamers can still use its online features.