Fair enough lol. Personally haven't been affected by the DDOS much beyond server unresponsiveness on my end, but it must really suck for people that keep getting disconnected or just see their playtime window denied by the inability to play.
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It could very well be on SE's side if one of NTT's nodes is taking a dump -- which btw happens relatively often. And yes, NTT having issues is SE's side since they're contracted be SE. Using a VPN is usually a good way to bypass those potato nodes.
Here's an entire thread on it that is still being regularly bumped.
Between their net code, payment issues and """DDOS""", it does feel like the whole process runs on a potato sometimes.