DDoS two hours after the patch goes live is ridiculous

I thought the ddos has finally stopped for a couple of days so I stopped using VPN since they sort of hurting my ping, somewhat.

Then boom, it happens again lol.

At least Mistwake ended no less than 30 seconds before the inevitable 750 queue.

I will say this, it's getting absolutely ridiculous. Trying to do deep dungeons since I didn't get booted for the past couple of days and the second I try to continue the file I had with friends in HoH, BOOM.

Something has to be done.

Finally diving into 101+ on PotD, and at 4.6% HP left on the boss I get 90002. After months of just trying to get to 100 with no DC's. The disconnect protection they put in is a nice sentiment, but in reality it doesn't do anything for solo runs. Deep Dungeon is dead content until this stops.

Yeah, this has been happening to me all day... I've gotten at least 4 or 5 of them throughout the day today. It's insane.

Welp, it happened again. I and one other person in Interphos normal dodged the dc. Not so much luckier to the rest of the party but ultimately we both wiped & now have to wait everybody else fighting the queue line.

Honestly I just close the game for the day now. If my sub runs out and I can't log back in, I guess that will just be that

Weird coincidence that NA gets DDOSed right as a frontlines match starts and one team is near entirely unaffected by it, letting them win with a 1000 point lead.

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Weird coincidence that NA gets DDOSed right as a frontlines match starts and one team is near entirely unaffected by it, letting them win with a 1000 point lead.

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I swear if this is over the cruddy pvp system that doesnt matter then i have lost faith in humanity. How unhinged and unwashed must you be to ddos ff14 because of its pvp?! are they that sad and worthless?

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I swear if this is over the cruddy pvp system that doesnt matter then i have lost faith in humanity. How unhinged and unwashed must you be to ddos ff14 because of its pvp?! are they that sad and worthless?

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nah this has been happening for months.

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Weird coincidence that NA gets DDOSed right as a frontlines match starts and one team is near entirely unaffected by it, letting them win with a 1000 point lead.

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It IS rather oddly coincidental that there's a new mount right now that requires 100 wins on the new map... and some people already have it despite the constant DDoS going around which ALWAYS leaves at least one team unaffected every single time.

7.4 was on December 16th by the way, when the mount was added, and some people had it before Christmas, so not even 2 weeks later.

Did my last night with a solid group. Bit of a shocker as it was after midnight my time. One of the tanks dc'd and few people lagged causing a wipe. Second attempt almost ended in a wipe cause of lag that almost took everyone out. I was one of the few not effected so saved the attempt with LB. Been using cloudflare warp it has helped greatly.

and we are live here tonight on tay zonday games

The sundering has come again.

When are yall going to fix the frickin issue? You guys sit on your hands and dont do crap cause people pay sub to keep their houses. What does it take? An IGN Article? A rank on trending on twitter? Fix the issue, and if you can't communicate and compensate your customers better. We aren't the ones who signed with NTT.

And again...had a couple days but back to disconnect and 600 in the queue. Please take time to fix this for those of us who are paying customers.

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When are yall going to fix the frickin issue? You guys sit on your hands and dont do crap cause people pay sub to keep their houses. What does it take? An IGN Article? A rank on trending on twitter? Fix the issue, and if you can't communicate and compensate your customers better. We aren't the ones who signed with NTT.

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All that happened for G'raha's VA speculation (which would be infinitely easier to clarify) and still radio silence btw

hey again lol, how many DDOS we will get in 2026 lol

Oh look another disconnect, this time while i was doing some crafting. I hope this happens during next weeks world first race and SE gets more widespread backlash for this so it's something they will actually address for once and not with a copy cutter lodestone response.

I'm joining the forum for the first time to lend my weight to this. These issues seem like they've been going on all late autumn and early winter with no relief. I've lost crafts and expensive materials to this, I've spent 20 minutes waiting in a raid for a player to reconnect, and most egregiously I've zoned into an alliance raid only to have 16 of the 24 players immediately disconnect. This is substantially impacting my ability to have fun in game. Square Enix, what will it take to fix this problem?

Ashburn, San Jose, and Sacramento NTT nodes have been having issues for over 5 years. Its just getting worse.

WoW uses Comcast nodes that don't appear to have the same issues as NTT nodes. VPN/Cloudflare WARP helps because you can reduce the amount of problematic nodes that your traffic goes through down to one - the Sacramento NTT node where the FFXIV servers are located. FFXIV is the only game that I've had to use a VPN for because of horrific NTT node packet loss.

Wouldn't be surprised if Square-Enix had just used the cheapest server option available to them at the time.

The Heavyweight Savage race is going to be wild if NA is blocked out by server issues.

And I still think we should absolutely not let the higher up devs catch a break on the server issues if this is still a problem by NA fanfest.

new one... try do to doomtrain extreme...

Was trying to decide whether to do some crafting or run some Pilgrim's Traverse and got kicked. Now i don't feel like playing the game.

Massive lag spike again about 5 minutes ago. Once again chiming in: Square Enix, please fix this problem.

I find it difficult to believe a multi-million dollar company is incapable of solving this issue for more than a year. To those who are not on the NA datacenters, the regularity is once a week or twice a week for the last year, however since the holidays it has happened 2-5 times per week in the last 3 weeks.

I believe it is unacceptable that no official or further communication has been made by Square Enix or the development team or operations team for the game. I believe the savage raid tier and patch should be pushed back and not released until this can be resolved, because the world race for this tier will be ruined and unfair if only the NA datacenter is being DDOS'ed. Or, perhaps, YoshiP/ Development team can forcibly crash the other datacenters simultaneously every time the NA datacenter experiences a DDOS event to ensure all teams going for a world first race of the savage tier can be on equal playing field. When will SE announce legal action taken against parties that continue to DDOS the NA server? when will SE change the datacenter(s) or ISP(s) our traffic runs through? I understand it may be expensive, but if SE cannot weather the storm and correct the perception of their skill or ability by merit / actions then they are going to continue to lose players....most of my FC has stepped back from the game due to gameplay loops and content being very stale, but for those of us who remain, the constant DDOS and the demonstrated inability of SE to solve this problem or even release a statement apologizing or providing pro-rated reimbursements for gametime lost due to this, is a situation that cannot continue.

Please, please address this issue publicly with what SE plans to do about this continued issue and why it has not found any meaningful solution for a year!

I'm getting so sick of this. Thankfully I wasn't even crafting or in a duty, but I'm not looking forward to raiding with my static next weekend if this keeps happening, especially if myself and my static get disconnected and we have to waste time getting through the queue just to get back in.

What's the point of even playing this game anymore with these regular kicks?

Massive lag spike again about 5 minutes ago. Once again chiming in: Square Enix, please fix this problem.

SE is never going to fix this.
They don't care.

Find another game. This one is circling the drain.

If squenix is unwilling or unable to fix the issue on the network side, it's time to implement stronger in-game recovery fallbacks. 10 minute DD grace period is not enough. I've made a separate thread to discuss the issue.

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Large swaths of NA have been kicked daily since 7.4 dropped. If there are plans to change mitigation tactics in the future, we haven't been informed (and understandably, too much detail will make mitigation useless as attackers will have more info on how to bypass it). I'm not here to talk about that. If network issues are consistent (which they are) and are showing no signs of improvement (they've gotten worse, in fact), it is good practice to implement stronger recovery for user losses.

• 10 minute grace period for deep dungeons is a start, but it clearly isn't enough. If the whole party is DCed, someone is doing a solo run, or the queue takes over 10 minutes, this strategy fails.
• There is no grace period for crafting. Material loss is a consistent complaint, especially post-patch when new recipes are added and players invest a lot of time to obtain them.
• Wipes in dungeons prolong content and lead to frustrated players quitting, which leads to wait times for party refills, which leads to more players quitting, and so on. Similarly, frustration builds when players waiting in long queues must rejoin and wait all over again.
• PvP has repeatedly become imbalanced towards players that survive the attacks and skews results in their favor, devaluing skill in favor of luck and VPN users.
• High-end duties will similarly skew in favor of EU/JP/OC datacenters due to instability on NA.

I don't have an exhaustive list nor do I have perfect solutions. However it is clear to see that in-game recovery is biased towards preventing mechanic abuse in a way that is disproportionately hurting honest players when DDoS issues are so widespread. I don't know what it will take to balance the sides - detecting large player drops, server rollbacks, in-game or server time compensation - but the community is hurting and the response so far has only served as a bandaid solution. Suggestions, details, elaboration is appreciated from you all. (Just for communication's sake, I ask that people avoid DDoS talk in this thread and focus on in-game recovery. We already have many threads dedicated to DDoS and I would like to make a space specifically for in-game solutions to the issue.)

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I take it maybe the jp forum needs to be updated. They clearly dont look at the na.

1:10 am East time again.. will be savage next week lol

Hey Square, it would be really cool if you explored counter-measures instead of continuing to stay silent and hoping the problem fixes itself.

There were some replies in the Technical Support forum:

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Good afternoon, fellow adventurers and thank you all for posting in the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

We apologize for the trouble and inconvenience you all have been experiencing with Final Fantasy XIV.

We would like to make aware of recent announcements made on the Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone website regarding DDoS attacks. You may follow this link for the most recent announcement: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...0f6e4dfeb100d5

We understand how frustrating these issues are and we deeply apologize for the negative impact it has caused for the game. We will be sure to forward this information as feedback to the appropriate parties and we thank you for your patience while the team investigates the issue further for a resolution.

With this being said, this thread will be moved to 'Closed Concerns'. We once again apologize for any inconvenience caused and we thank you for your patience.

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I like how I got booted from the game last night due to a DDoS and just opted to not log back in because there was nothing else I needed to do that warranted sitting in the queue... and then when I logged in earlier today I was "welcomed" by a recent DDoS apparently when I was met with a 400+ queue already underway.

It's either that or the game makes you sit in a queue no matter when you got disconnected even if it was 18 hours apart.

My favorite game is consistently becoming Final Fantasy Offline with the disconnects. Please fix the DDOS issues with NA, it’s been so bad lately. Multiple times a day and especially during peak times, it resets dungeons and instances or disappears my crafting materials and wastes time on my crafting buffs. It happens even in Dynamis, where there’s not a lot of people, lol. Do we have to wait for the world first raiders doing savage disconnect at the same time? Does it have to affect Japan players before it’s fixed? I don’t even want to try going to Aether anymore and not interested in fighting DDOS during savage prog. It was ridiculous having to go to Oceania to prevent disconnecting while doing the new extreme already.

DDoS on savage release, here we go (it just happened).

Well, I think it's now clear: It's a malevolent actor. They didn't wait TEN MINUTES on Savage release to nail people.

Maybe it's a jp/eu player this time sabotaging the race since they see how easy it is to take down na servers lol
This is a joke, do something already