Updated

FromSoftware said on November 12, 2026 that online servers for Dark Souls 2 and 3 are back after a nearly two-week outage. The studio had temporarily disabled multiplayer on October 30, citing what it called a server issue, and some speculated it was tied to a recently discovered PHP security bug that affected other games, though FromSoftware never specified the cause. Its latest notice said the investigation was complete and a fix applied, restoring the game servers and online features, and it apologised for the inconvenience. Eurogamer noted that the servers also carry player messages and ghostly representations of other players, features that help the games feel less solitary. The outage follows a 2022 incident in which a vulnerability allowed malicious code to run on the servers, after which restoration took three months for some games and up to nine months for others.