Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition Receives Steamworks Update

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Mention Games for Windows Live to a PC gamer and chances are that they are going to cringe. Microsoft’s online gaming service has caused many issues for the games it has been attached to and, upon the news that Microsoft would do away with it, some publishers have been making the effort to remove GFWL from their games. Today, From Software announced a new update for Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition that replaces GFWL with Steamworks and joins other developers who have made the transition.
The update will allow players to transfer their save data and achievements from GFWL over to Steamworks between now and February 16, 2015. Afterwards, the developer warns players that the new version of the game, using Steamworks, will become the default version and all save data and achievements will be lost if they haven’t been transferred. Once the game has been updated, gamers will no longer need to login to a second platform in order to play Dark Souls.
Unfortunately, there have been issues being experience by some players who have mods, such as DSfix, installed. However, in the case of DSfix, there is a new version of the mod available that should hopefully address these issues. As for other mods, that are causing problems, players might have to completely remove them for now.
The update has been a long time coming ever since it appeared that Microsoft would no longer support GFWL when a support update on Xbox.com stated, “Games for Windows Live will be discontinued on July 1, 2014.” However, the message was removed and, in June of this year, the company stated that it will continue to support the service.
For those who need to save their information, From Software has posted instructions on how to transfer the game’s data to Steamworks for both digital and physical copies of the game.
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