The icing on the cake at this point would be for Steam to have the DLC season pass cheaper on sale come Christmas, then I'll be well and truly ready to go.
Chance of a good sale price on Dark Souls 2 and/or its DLC isn't looking very good.
We did get 33% off last summer sale before the DLC was out…
But because of the news about the PS4, XBone and DX11 "enhanced graphics" versions, it looks kinda like they're gearing up to sell the game to PC users
again. If this is the case they wont want to push sales of the dx9 version because if a new player picks this one up for $10 they'll be much less inclined to buy the "next-gen" version, which comes bundled with the DLC, at full price.
Rumour has it that the DX11 and DX9 versions will run on separate servers and won't be able to play online together.
Rumour also has it that this "enhanced" version is the one they were demoing before release which caused a lot of fuss when people compared the demo footage to the final game.
You're probably getting a bit annoyed already since you bought the dx9 version and likely won't have played it before the
real version
with the DLC is already out at the same price you paid. You might even think you have the dx11 version already because you bought the game based on the demo footage!
The PC online player base is pretty good, and passionate about the game, but according to steam it's only about 2,315 to 4,023 strong at the moment and not all of these people will be engaged in online play. To split this player base will harm the community and the reputation of the developer to no end. (Even though this kind of decision will have been made by the Japanese publisher Kadokawa who bought 80% of the company post Dark Souls 2 release.)
Some players will stay, some will buy the new version, but all of them will feel they should have got the DX11 version to begin with, or at least in a free update.
I guess we have to wait and see, but I fear the worst and this sort of thing really annoys me. We can already see how they employ shifty sales tactics from when they delayed the PC version a whole bloody month hoping people would get the console version first and then the PC version again soon after.
And it worked because that's exactly what I did.