From Software answered the age-old question (or at least the question that arose this week): What do you do with people who are playing your game before you want them to? Send insanely high-level phantoms after them, of course.

In response to people who were somehow able to play Dark Souls before its official Japanese release, From Software decided to flood the early players’ world with Black Phantoms. The Black Phantoms are level 145 mobs with 1900 HP and all abilities maxed out at 99. Edge Magazine offered a comparison of these stats with that of their reviewer’s character, which has almost 60 hours of play-time: Level 43, 1001 HP, and abilities ranging from 8 to 30.

I actually think this is an ingenious way to deal with the early players. Why bother banning them when you can make not playing the game their choice.

Source: Edge Magazine