Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-24.153.51.192-20150528023436/@comment-75.156.90.203-20150530034310

Either that, or he/she went on a RuneScape-style "I'm quitting this game and giving away free stuff to random people".

Yeah, like THAT'D happen in Dark Souls 2...

Oh, and if you are playing on the PC version of Dark Souls 2, then all those Souls are legit, due to the fact that From bans people on PC for cheating. From uses something called Soul Memory to watch your inventory, so that if, all of a sudden, you get 20e1 hero souls they can trace that and ban your account from their servers, and if you've downloaded the game from Steam, it's a double whammy with VAC, which will ban you from Steam.

In short, playing on PC = Legit (there aren't any save editors for DSII on PC), playing on Xbox/PS = probably not legit (kajilions of save editors for XB/PS). You're also completely safe to pick those souls up, but it'll just ruin, oh, about half the fun of the game for you.