Interacting with hackers, particularly accepting items from them. Disconnects from internet and potentially Steam (including downtime) Generally a server desync is causing the server to flip out with flagging.

Performing certain tasks offline and then going online (not sure if it's been replicated, but someone apparently triggered the message on purpose by fiddling with the item box offline and returning online). Crashes, and we all know how fantastic Dark Souls games are with gghhhh Input mappers/emulators, borderless gaming software, FPS counters, drivers, recording software, who knows. And exactly WHAT these third party programs are is anyone's guess. People have even TRIED to trigger the message by blowing up their game with cheats and getting no message. Cheats, mods (including performance mods that don't affect gameplay), and third party programs interacting with the game, though it's obvious that players that use cheats and such are still running wild. Nothing is 100% confirmed and not everything is avoidable, but here it is: No one is entirely sure, but there are theories. If you scroll down the Steam page, you can see most of the negative reviews are related to this. Neither does verifying your Steam game cache. Well, shouldn't you be ok to delete your character, save file, and entire game? Nope, that doesn't work either. This first message will turn into a ban (unclear on the time or circumstances), which means players are sent to a ban server, where non-cheaters will prance around with the actual cheaters. Sounds fine and dandy until you realize this anti-cheat system is overly sensitive and hitting people that aren't using any cheats at all, and isn't giving clear instructions on how to remedy the issue or what caused it in the first place.

This is a notice meant to warn players that are editing their game data through mods, cheats, etc. Starting April 15th, many players (myself included) have been seeing this notice upon login: So, Dark Souls banning legit players? Seems so. It may serve as a decent warning for those intending to buy Dark Souls 3, particularly on PC (although I have heard a few complaints on the console side) and especially if you care about multiplayer. Posting this because it's been an ongoing issue that doesn't seem to be getting a lot of attention as far as media and forums go.

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