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No release date set yet for Dark Souls 2 PC
- Thread starter Nibel
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Till April, when GFWL dies and the game becomes unplayable, there is no patch anywhere in sight
Game will still be perfectly playable even without a patch.
Either through crack or offline mode in the worst case scenario possible.
The PC market is quite surprising to those that don't realize the shear volume of sales that occur.
And that was back in April, its probably nearly double that by now.
If they didn't do such a poor job porting the game then it would have been significantly more successful.
Please make a Mac verison
I don't want to install Boot Camp.
You'd be better off getting a good gaming laptop or a desktop PC. You would have more options to more games. Plus you would pay a lot less for better hardware.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Oh I knew I was missing some info because form that chart the numbers just didn't add up. Thats very good.
zephervack
Member
Dark Souls offline might as well be unplayable, I would have played the game for 70 hours only instead of the 300.
OldAsUrSock
Banned
Till April, when GFWL dies and the game becomes unplayable
It is not unplayable, but you will be in offline mode.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Please make a Mac verison
I don't want to install Boot Camp.
You want games on Mac, get bootcamp. It's what I do personally.
You are really stretching the definition of unplayable there.
Fried Food
Banned
EFF it I'll just get the PS3 version. That will I will be discovering the game at the same rate as everyone else and will have the purest experience
pretty done
Member
Eh, his wording sucks but I almost agree with his sentiment. Online play is a huge part of why Souls is awesome. At least for me it is, I love doing co-op or PvP. They're both so fun.
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Deleted member 17706
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Would suck, but this game doesn't exist to me until it's out on the PC, so I'll deal if it's the case.
ShockingAlberto
Member
I dunno, you'll lose stuff like the message markers and those are really important to the experience.
Amazing chest ahead.
The_Hitcher89
Member
PS3 it is then
TheCongressman1
Member
Gotta wait for PC version. I will not double dip.
But you know, if they remade Demon's and Dark Souls with the new engine, I'd buy them both twice.
But you know, if they remade Demon's and Dark Souls with the new engine, I'd buy them both twice.
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
Playing Dark Souls in offline mode is like playing gta with all the cars taken out, or a mario game without any jumping.
damn, I wish they would just patch in steam support for online play in DS1. Then PC version really could be the definitive version master race types like to say it is. I guess theres not really any chance of that happening with Dark Souls 2 coming out now, is there?
With my dying breath, I curse gfwl one last time.
damn, I wish they would just patch in steam support for online play in DS1. Then PC version really could be the definitive version master race types like to say it is. I guess theres not really any chance of that happening with Dark Souls 2 coming out now, is there?
With my dying breath, I curse gfwl one last time.
pretty done
Member
Yup. Despite having a 360 for years, I didn't touch Souls until it hit PC and I'm glad I didn't waste the experience before then.
TouchMyBox
Member
It'll probably launch alongside the console versions as Early Access and they'll officially launch it after Durante has fixed the game.
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
You wouldn't be able to summon level 99 buddies unless your level was somehwere near theirs. Meanwhile you never faced the most terrifying, thrilling and satisfying enemies in the game - human invaders.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Oh no
The_Hitcher89
Member
I kinda regret being human so little, thus only being invaded 3 or 4 times
Keep in mind that the 31st is likely a retailer estimate to cover their ass.
From said it will be delayed by 2-3 weeks.
IlludiumQ36
Member
Only if one starts a new game. The "Load Game" option doesn't even appear if DS is started with internet disconnected. It is only available after signing in to GFWL.
Dark Souls 2 could be another interesting case to see if people really have abandoned last gen software. Wouldn't be surprised to be honest.
Disrespecting the PC user base with a delayed release means i'm waiting for a big time sale. Bunch of other games to rent in March anyway.
Disrespecting the PC user base with a delayed release means i'm waiting for a big time sale. Bunch of other games to rent in March anyway.
Deified Data
Banned
Yeah, I'm not waiting til May. Looks like I'm going to have to double-dip.
Poimandres
Member
I think it's going to perform really well on PC.
I want to wait for a sale as well, because let's face it... games get real cheap real fast on PC! I'm not sure I have the strength for that though!
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2spooky4me
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It may be the lowest priority, but I think FROM is probably very happy with their PC sales.
(from http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=538569)
Looking at that picture, from April 2013, assuming I'm doing my math right, Dark Souls PC is about 43% of the total Prepare to Die edition sales worldwide. Of course, there was no PC release for the original version, so obviously it'll make up a larger chunk of PTD edition sales, but it goes to show that it's done very well on PC for a cheap port. I'd also guess that since April, with Steam summer sale and winter sale, the PC version probably sold just as well as the console versions in the same period, and it'll continue to sell during sales due to PC games' longer tails.
PC is 43%? Is it really that hard to read off the graph? The Prepare to Die editions are lumping together PS3 sales with PC. We have no data on how many of those PtD sales are from PS3 and how many are from PC. All we know is that PC sales are less than 690,000. I think it is a fair assumption that console sales dwarf the PC sales by a fairly large margin...
Well I mean, for one there's two consoles and for 2, the console versions came out over a year before the PC version.
There's not really much meaningful that can be extrapolated from those figures.
What we do know is that From said PC is the lead platform and that they were very happy with the sales of the PC version.
Figures released early last year point to 300k sales, by now sales are probably around the 600,000 mark.
For a game that was ported so late, horrible DRM, and has so many well-documented issues that isn't so bad.
Gabe himself has said that including DRM with your game will substantially effect total sales numbers.
We're all glad you did. You made me see those textures clearer than my optometrist ever could.
I don't know about him but where I live (New Zealand) playing PvP is just an exercise in frustration, because of the atrocious lag (both on Xbox and PC, haven't tried it on ps3). Fighting people that teleport or who take damage a second after you hit them isn't satisfying, it's shit. I'd rather play solo where the game is responsive 100% of the time than have to deal with people that lag.
Hopefully DS2 will have dedicated servers in Australia or even better New Zealand, which should make online play a lot more interesting.
FUCK NO
I'm picking this up on 360, aren't I?
Pick it up on both, you know you want to
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Fucking hell.
What is it about the PC that befuddles japanese major developers?
What is it about the PC that befuddles japanese major developers?
Let's not jump to conclusions, it's still leading on PC and this delay isn't confirmed.
