10 Ways Dark Souls Made All Video Games WORSE
2. Making It Okay To Sell A Remaster Which Spits On The Community
One thing that you can’t fault about the Dark Souls community is their dedication (for better, or for worse).
The modding and multiplayer scene was, for a time, one of the more active and passionate you’d find for a game of this genre, and there were some truly talented individuals patching a lot of the original game's more "divisive" features.
So, by the time the remastered edition of the game arrived seven years later, the PC community had already fixed all the issues with the base game.
If you had been playing the game on PC for all those years and, understandably, updated your base game with these bountiful upgrades, Dark Souls Remastered will have been quite the wet fart. A full-priced title which looks and plays worse than the version you already have.
To really shovel the faeces into the players’ pillowcases, though? Activision stopped selling the original version of Dark Souls on PC, meaning you either “upgraded”, or you remained a part of a rapidly-diminishing, split player base.
Clearly, Activision noticed the strides the community had made and wanted to grab control back, finding Dark Souls Remastered as the way to do so, and thought console players were happy with what they got, the PC community were understandably pretty miffed.
The sales figures just go to show that it’s okay to spit on your community - as long as a thing’s popular enough, it’ll sell regardless.