FFXIV - DDOS'ed again?

Ya can confirm early morning for the East Coast at 4:40am ish the server crashed. Login was out of service.
Whelp.

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Originally Posted by Maxilor

3rd Night in a row of this crap.

More disconnects on the East Coast.

When is Squeenix going to address this?

It's even got threads on the Reddit front page now.

You know it's an issue when even the FFXIV reddit addresses there's an issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._anybody_else/

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I am curious as to why it's not impacting me as bad as others? I have Spectrum. I'm in Florida (so East Coast) and everything is normal. Last Friday I did have some bad lag in alliance raid, but I've never disconnected. On Dynamis/Seraph. Is it possible I am not being routed through this hateful NTT node?

I'm on Spectrum but haven't experienced any recent lag in Ohio. My static mates that are much further south and not on Spectrum have had issues.

Im not on Spectrum, but live east coast. I don't get d/ced but oftentimes during evening/night I start lagging. It's not "I cannot play" bad but it's noticeable and does affect what I feel comfortable with playing/helping out with. I play a lot during the day and it's normally fine then.

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Originally Posted by Rehayem

SE likes to blame it on DDoS but in reality it's the NTT node, usually the San Jose one, that's falling apart causing all this lag and disconnects. It's easier to push the blame somewhere else rather than fix the issue at hand.

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We swapped to the NTT node because SE decided to partner with NTT for their servers (and as a byproduct we are stuck with that node).

All for the promise of "better server infrastructure" when obviously it was a cost-cutting maneuver since they got a good contract with NTT.

Here we go again.

12:41 AM EST kicked

I have to turn on my VPN and play through that. I don't like doing it, but it's the only thing I have that can mitigate the issue.

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Originally Posted by RowanLauron

I have to turn on my VPN and play through that. I don't like doing it, but it's the only thing I have that can mitigate the issue.

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Same.
Don't recall who 'recommended it' but using CloudFlare WARP is avoiding the issues NTT San Jose needs to get off their ass and fix.

Still sucks to have to use a "VPN" to fix a problem.

Classic Square Enix, ignoring the east coast playerbase of NA with connection issue. There a thread on Tech Support with the same issue. A Moderator send a response for connection issue, but let's be real they only do it to hide rug or "help" you to calm down the playerbase and keep continue business as always. Sadly there no fix until they add a server or cloud server on east side of NA. Until then, enjoy buggy laggy game named Final Fantasy XIV.