DDOS attack

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Originally Posted by sagacious

are you the DDOS attacker? Shialan I play 6 to 8 hrs a day I just wanna play there's no trolling I want to understand this situation. The video was simplistic at best who wants to do this? and keep millions from playing this game? is is a corporate attack from a business rivel? or could it be from the inside disgruntled employee?

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DDOS happens for lots of reasons

-the attacker doesnt like business practices
-retaliation for getting perma banned
-business rivals engaging in cyber warfare
-just cause they can

at the end of the day all we can do is wait it out till its resolved.

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Originally Posted by Lucyfurr1988

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Most commonly its showcasing. At least against the bigger platforms it is.

If you are a ddos hoster and you can show you can take out a big platform, taking out a smaller one poses no problems. This makes it more likely that someone who wants to do damage will go for your platform to perform certain attacks.
And those attacks are nearly always for extortion. Pay X to make the ddos stop, or suffer Y days worth of damage in which your company cant operate.

That a game platform doesnt go down however, can mean it is a single person behind it, but even at this scale, that is quite a cost to make. Its unlikely that a random individual is behind that. There is almost always a company behind attacks at this scale. The intention of that company is unknown though and can be several things.

There is also the option that SE had some ddos protection ready, wanted to test it in runtime, yet the protection failed, so it caused problems. Not all companies are willing to openly admit mistakes here. But there is a good reason to not disclose it. If you admit you did the test yourself, you only bait someone into trying more ddos attacks. Its very conveniently just before a maintenance moment so if servers crashed more severely, this window would have given more time to fix it.
Ending the ddos early in those cases however would reveal it was them, and not even give them a good chance to test proper mitigation. So even then, you just keep it running.

So when is the post about peoples characters not being able to log in be posted on the Lodestone??

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Originally Posted by LillyWandsworth

So when is the post about peoples characters not being able to log in be posted on the Lodestone??

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Yeah I’ve seen a few people saying they could login with their mains but not their alts, or vice versa. Still got a few hours til I can try to get on.

Are we still getting ddos'd? I keep getting d/c'd :/

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Originally Posted by Shialan

People getting trolled by OP.

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Oh snap, a regular user asking questions about the nature of ddosing in a game that's currently getting ddosed is trolling now. Wanting to play the game you pay for is trolling now. Hoooooooooooo boy, here we are. Welcome to the forums, ladies and gentlemen.

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Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

Yeah I’ve seen a few people saying they could login with their mains but not their alts, or vice versa. Still got a few hours til I can try to get on.

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This is what is happening to me. My main can log in fine, but my alt gets 90k'd when I try.

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Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

Yeah I’ve seen a few people saying they could login with their mains but not their alts, or vice versa. Still got a few hours til I can try to get on.

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That doesn't seem to make much sense... how would the game identify which characters are "mains" versus which are "alts"? There is no distinction. Maybe it's just luck, or else people are having different experiences based on what server the characters are on. In any case, I see on YouTube people are streaming the game live right now, so maybe I'll see if I can get on.

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Originally Posted by Fyrebrand

That doesn't seem to make much sense... how would the game identify which characters are "mains" versus which are "alts"? There is no distinction. Maybe it's just luck, or else people are having different experiences based on what server the characters are on. In any case, I see on YouTube people are streaming the game live right now, so maybe I'll see if I can get on.

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That's why people say this has nothing to do with the DDOS attack, that they messed something up during the update, and now some characters can't log on Chaos, while they still can use DC travel with those same characters that can't log on their home world.

There seems to be something else going on besides the DDoS attacks. Otherwise I can't explain why some of my characters can log in (even several times in a row) completely fine while other characters getting permanently the 90002 error in the loading screen.