ikr? so did they bump the current people playing to make room for new log-ins? not a good idea
ddos attack? or too many players suddenly cause of the free login event?
I think it might have been something to do with one of the server hops in between NA players and the FFXIV servers. I was running a VPN at the time and it prevented me from dcing, while my 7 party mates got booted.
Square's ISP - "NTT - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone" is the source of the problem. Their node "xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net" is taking a giant shit right now apparently. I'm getting 100% packet loss at it still. Been going on for at least an hour or two intermittently. If I had to guess the cause it would probably be because Square just announced that they're offering a free 8 days playtime for former subscribers so you have a ton of returners logging in all at once after they got off work. This is likely to continue happen this entire week too until the promotion is over.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...3841dd87b02be7
They said it was a DDoS.