It’s great for file sharing and unburdening a single server, but it’s also great for piracy. Not high seas piracy, just run of the mill IP theft and illegal file sharing. So the theory is this: someone wants to download Elden Ring for free, so they go to their favorite browser and search “Elden Ring torrent”, all the search results are about the horse! Pirates vanquished.
Obviously with a few more keywords and a can-do attitude, the pirates will be back to their swashbuckling (swashdownloading?) ways. But this isn’t the first time FromSoft has had a search word character conspiracy. There’s similar tin-foil hat conspiracies about the character Patches from Demon’s Souls and Rom from Bloodborne. While these may be mere coincidences, it’s equally as likely that director Hidetaka Miyazaki included these names as a cheeky nod to tech minded players.
Next time we see him, we’ll have to ask him. And we’ll also ask him why the heck he designed all these unfair ways to die in the Souls series.
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