14 DAY TRIAL // The pressure of PC-based players who tend to look unfavorably upon Games for Windows Live from Microsoft might apparently still be enough to persuade publisher Namco Bandai to drop the service for the upcoming launch of Dark Souls, with more information promised to fans at E3.
Daisuke Uchiyama, who is the publishing producer working on the PC version of Dark Souls, has told EDGE that, “The partnership decision is still ongoing. We might have another announcement soon regarding the platform we’ll be using.”
Carlson Choi, who is the vice president in charge of marketing at Namco Bandai, added, “There have been a lot of questions about the digital partner. But we’re still in April and the game isn’t out until August 24. There is still a lot of time for marketing beats. More information will come – maybe at E3.”
After Namco Bandai announced that the PC version of Dark Souls would use Games for Windows Live, fans of the game quickly launched a petition against it which has so far managed to get more than 20,000 signatures.
It took over 90,000 signatures on a similar petition and a campaign of Likes on Facebook to convince the company to port Dark Souls to the PC.
Developer From Software has already announced that the core game features will be ported to the PC without any sort of changes to the graphics or optimization for mouse and keyboard control.
But fans who have been patiently waiting for the game to launch will get to fight two new bosses, will meet one new character.
They will also fight a number of new enemies with new weaponry and will be using a new matchmaking system for the multiplayer side of Dark Souls.
Recently, Microsoft has announced that it continues to support GfWL and that it has long term plans for the much-maligned service.