{"id":126033,"date":"2022-08-25T13:28:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T11:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=126033"},"modified":"2022-08-25T13:28:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T11:28:28","slug":"the-dark-souls-3-servers-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/126033-the-dark-souls-3-servers-are-back","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Souls 3 servers are back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seven months of being down, the servers for Dark Souls 3 on PC have at last been brought back online.<\/p>\n<p>The servers were taken down in January this year after long-standing security issues were brought to the attention of FromSoftware ahead of the release of Elden Ring.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 days later, the servers are now back online, with the announcement being made on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Online features for the PC version of Dark Souls III have been reactivated.<\/p>\n<p>We are working to restore these features for all other <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DarkSouls?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DarkSouls<\/a> titles and will inform you when they are back in service.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you once more for your patience and support. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XHiCZDEANC\">pic.twitter.com\/XHiCZDEANC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dark Souls (@DarkSoulsGame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarkSoulsGame\/status\/1562718968086872064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This news will be a great relief for many long-standing fans of the series.<\/p>\n<p>While Elden Ring undoubtedly boasts the largest player-base many still regard Dark Souls 3 to have the better PVP of the two games.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether or not the security issues that led to the takedown have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, the community will no doubt be happy to play again.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/126023-new-lord-of-the-rings-game-in-development\">New Lord of the Rings game in development<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dark Souls 3 servers have been brought back online after over 200 days of inactivity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":119035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26412,16092,99],"class_list":["post-126033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-dark-soul-3","tag-fromsoftware","tag-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}