Dark Souls II Review (Zackillers)
Servers were taken down for an exploit that was fixed by independent people in less than a week. Here we are almost if not more than 5 months later and the tags for the souls games don't say multiplayer anymore. There hasn't been a single public announcement since they said they were taking the servers down until after Elden Rings release.
The prices for the souls games here on steam were all raised after the last major steam sale while there hasn't even been an attempt to update players on the plan for the servers.
Taking all of this in I cannot recommend any of these games because they are a husk of what they were with servers up.
Let me make this clear as well, I say this because they are now charging more for literally every souls game on steam right now than they have in years. What are you getting for these hiked prices? Less of a game than you would've gotten when you could've bought the whole series for the price of one game. That's just a bad deal if you ask me. (I got this game plus dlc for $9 and the sale was only 30% I believe)
This series is my favorite game series period but I don't want to praise any aspect of these games without servers because that would just give Fromsoft more of an excuse to never bring the servers back.