I fan di Elden Ring continuano ad abbracciare la loro natura lavorando freneticamente per un piccolo aggiornamento del database di Steam

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The signs that Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is coming soon are everywhere and nowhere all at once. Fans are latching onto anything and everything they can find to prove FromSoftware is about to drop the release date. This week’s clue comes from a tiny Steam update labeled as DLC, and, while it is slightly more credible than a date from a controller manufacturer, it’s still mighty thin.

All'inizio di questa settimana, un nuovo numero di identificazione dell'app DLC è stato aggiunto a Elden Ring su Steam (tramite SteamDB), suggesting that FromSoft is preparing to list Shadows of the Erdtree on the store page. Naturally, Elden Ring fans saw this and immediately started constructing a theory that starts with an announcement at tomorrow’s Diretto dagli sviluppatori Xbox.

It’s not as big of a leap as it may seem: Elden Ring was originally announced at Microsoft’s Xbox E3 2019 press conference. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it at an Xbox show again, but not one that seems to be entirely focused on games published by Microsoft, whose lineup has already been revealed (we’re going to see the new Indiana Jones game and Obsidian’s Avowed, most notably)

Il devoto fan di Elden Ring mi indicherebbe il recente teaser di un Figura dell'Elden Ring from PureArts coming next month, but I’d say that’s a reach. And the whole thing where controller manufacturer Thrustmaster ho lasciato cadere la data di febbraio 2024 per il DLC e ho accennato a un secondo DLC per il 2025 (prima di rimuovere tutto) mi sembra la stessa cosa. FromSoft annuncia qualcosa quando ne ha voglia, e potrebbe essere un martedì casuale o un grande evento, non si sa mai.

Nonostante l'implausibilità, i fan di Elden Ring continuare a credere that we’re days away from the big announcement. Soulslike YouTuber Ziostorm mentioned that Dark Souls 2 and 3 updated their Steam pages around two months before their DLC announcements and then again a day or two before their releases. It’s been more than a day since the update for Elden Ring, however, and we’ve heard nothing.

“Oh, is this the real Chapel of Anticipation this time?” Reddit user Auri_L scritto in riferimento al nome dell'area di apertura.

Nello stesso thread, che conta più di 500 commenti, qualcuno ha citato la persona che recentemente ha teorizzato che la verità potrebbe essere trovata nel testo di Taylor Swift’s “Ivy”. Their post is tagged with “humor” but they still wrote several paragraphs trying to convince everyone that the pop star knew the DLC date two years before the game even came out. At this point, it might be a safety concern for FromSoft to non annunciare presto una data.

Su X, le persone pubblicano tutti i tipi di gif e video entusiasti del piccolo aggiornamento, incluso a video di un boss di Bloodborne who cradles a magical sword that was ultimately his undoing. The irony is so strong that I don’t care if the poster is aware of it or not. Let Me Solo Her poked his head into the conversation to drop the “I can’t. Not again. I’m… not strong enough” meme from The Incredibles. Everyone is replying to him with words of encouragement, probably because they know FromSoft always puts the hardest fights in its DLCs, so we’re going to need him.

The last official thing we heard about Shadow of the Erdtree is that it’s “a little ways off, but progress is going well” from producer Yasuhiro Kitao in Dicembre. And with no hint of it at this year’s Game Awards, an imminent announcement seems just as likely as it was at any time last year. Until FromSoft swoops in and drops a png on X or something, everyone will have to restrain themselves and wait patiently.