Why? Well, basicly they're filed a DMCA complaint to get DSFix 2.3 taken down. For those that don't know it's a mod that allowed everyone who legally bought Dark Souls, to be able to play the game on higher resolutions than 720p, among some other fixes. I'm not even into Dark Souls, but come on! You as a company release a bugged and shitty PC port of a succesful game, don't give a F about your customers and when someone step up and fix your mess without using any copyright material, you go after him?! WTF! Believe it or not, from what i've read in some forums, a lot of people only bought the game because of the fixes this mod does. More info here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=957469 Game companies are getting worse than i could have imagined.
I just have to ask. Why? Dark Souls came out over 2 years ago on PC (hell, the sequel came out over 6 months ago), and it's not like it's gone forever. The files were probably downloaded thousands of times, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were online already.
Maybe this is a mistake of some sort, or perhaps a misreport for their bot. I do remember having a debug version of DS PC leaking and being used by idiots to cheat in MP.... Perhaps it's a misfire of some sort? All in all it doesn't make sense.
Glad to see this is being worked out properly. That did sound rather odd to me. As has been said, if anything this would lead to more purchases of DS for the PC.
Even if it was a mistake (like it seems right now), companies shouldn't go ahead and use DMCA at will. I mean, use some common sense, check everything before and then go after the right people.
Huge DkS/FROM fan here. DSfix didn't just made the pc port have better graphics, it made the game PLAYABLE on pc. A stock version of the time (no idea if they patched this in the 2-3 patches the game received) behaved crappy because the way it was coded was preventing the cpu/gpu to be fully utilized resulting in pathetic ~20fps in many areas of the game. Durante basically did the port team's work for them for free.
I'm guessing they just had a bot go and banhammer (sounds better than DCMA) anything with Dark Souls in it with a certain extension (probably .exe). I just got a claim on my newest video (which admittedly is just an intro video from a game) from Sony Pictures. The game's by Mattel, who sold their games division to Ubisoft or some book publisher, and the developer is owned by Activision. Somehow Youtube's bots thought Sony owned it. Or...North Korea hates Max Steel.
