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Originally Posted by Sajiko

Did the patches fix the online issues with the game? And by that I mean the ability to actually hook up with someone on your PSN list (and not a random) to play the game with?

It was never supposed to be that way, so there's nothing to "fix".
You can hook up with people on your friendslist, it's just to plan it a little, starting a chatroom on PSN helps a lot. No need to play offline, just play in hallow form to avoid getting invaded, and the only downside as far as I'm concerned to it is not being invaded by offline NPC black phantoms. You don't have half health or something like in Demon's Souls. They have fixed some stuff with the online play, to make it work better, but as I said earlier, what you request has never been a goal, and won't happen.

Originally Posted by Sajiko

And 2nd, is it possible to drop and trade items like in Demon's Souls? My friend already has best weapons through a number of reinforcements if I am able to get him into my game and if he drops those weapons would the trophies pop? Or if I missed a rare item like a weapon from chopping off a bosses tail?

I know this sounds cheap or like cheating but I did Demon's Legit back in the day before I was a trophy hunter and I put 300+ hours into leveling characters and equipment alone and another who knows how many hours into PvPing. I don't have the time to do that again.

Yes, you can trade like in Demon's Souls.

You really are supposed to do 2 and a half playthrough as well. Though, personally it took me about 2 hours to do the last half playthrough. The second could I easily have managed to do in 10 hours or so, but I was going around doing all kinds of stuff I didn't need to do. First playthrough probably takes 20 hours if you want to explore a little, probably more if you love the game. My tip is that you can just run past most enemies in the game.