Another DDOS?

Just finnished a dungeon with npcs, went to exit and the server crashed, Balmung US.
Can't login again... giving me errors

Don't know if it's DDOS but the same happened to me and others.

Same on Gilgamesh, and everyone in my FC...we're complaining on discord about it.

Just got disconnected and can't connect back to the lobby server on Primal/Hyperion.

Pretty bad latency right now, cant even connect. shows 100% packets are lost.

Forgot to post server. . . Brynhildr

Hit me too. Was finishing a quest, got stuck after the final dialogue and it wouldn't complete.

Can login again, bleh, another 1480 queue to sit through

All of my FC mates and I got disconnected on Lamia. Only a few were able to get into a queue, while the rest of us can't even connect to the data center :(

Happened to me over on Famfrit

Same thing happened on Coeurl a few minutes ago. Clicked Craft, then suddenly everybody just started popping up with DC icons. A couple minutes later, everything went down.

Happened to me on Diabolos as well. Was riding through Il Mehg when I noticed something was wrong. Couldn't dismount or anything. Then I clicked on my character and saw that good ol' red dot symbol. Last time there was a DDoS it happened basically the same way.

I believe the entire aether data center just went down

Same just happened to me during a duty. Now 1300+ queue to get in. Coeurl US

Happened to me as well, on Balmung, it will not let me connect to the lobby server now.

Primal apparently down as well. Either DDOS or Maintenance is coming early without warning.

Someone probably tripped on the cables lol.... lobby is giving errors, probably from the amount of people trying to login again.

Same issue, in the middle of a dungeon run (Lv 80) and latency went super high then booted off, can't reconnect.
Crystal Datacenter
Malboro server

Same thing happen to my FC 1 of us got back in the game but the rest of us are having lobby server errors. Womp.

Happening on Behemoth too...

Famfrit, same issue. Now having tons of trouble getting back past through Start screen. 2002 for days it seems......

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Originally Posted by DroFrehter

Happening on Behemoth too...

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In queue now on behemoth with 1683 others.

Jenova bit it too. Only one dude in my FC is online through sheer luck

I think the frequent server downtime is the only thing where FF14 is lagging behind the competition. I remember these issues being here when I 1st started playing many years ago. Stopped for few years, came back to the same server issues =(

Crystal Data Center, Mateus Server...can't even connect to Data Center. 2002 error about 30 seconds after trying to connect. Feels like a DDoS attack.

Exact same thing happened to me on Siren (Aether). Can't connect to the server and keep getting 2002 error = . =

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Originally Posted by Kreahk

I think the frequent server downtime is the only thing where FF14 is lagging behind the competition. I remember these issues being here when I 1st started playing many years ago. Stopped for few years, came back to the same server issues =(

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Honestly? I'm surprised we've had as much up time as we have. The servers have been under extreme stress from the minute early access went live, and have only went down because of outside forces out of SE's control. This could be the same thing happening, or it could also be the servers finally giving up the ghost.

Same on Zalera, was about to finish my random trial =(

It's the holiday tomorrow and I guess everyone is logging on for their marathon. These wheelchair servers of FFXI couldn't handle the load.

Also in a queue of like a 1,000! and for some reason my screen says it cannot obtain character data?

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Honestly? I'm surprised we've had as much up time as we have. The servers have been under extreme stress from the minute early access went live, and have only went down because of outside forces out of SE's control. This could be the same thing happening, or it could also be the servers finally giving up the ghost.

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Yeah, only experience this once before when early access went up. Square said it was a DDOS attack. FFXIV have been attacked before, i remember back in 2.0. Apparently popular games are targets for attacks.

This reeks of ddos. all of Zalera went down. I was in the middle of a trial and had to log on temporarily as an alt or attempt to at least. Then log back on with my main. You would think that if square made priority for subs then a ddos attack would be out of the question. Apparently I was wrong.

I got dropped mid Fate too. saw everyone around me with DC icons. now the game wont even load to the lobby. get errors and the game closes. Lamia server

Wouldn't surprise me if they chose to attack again with the full release of Shadowbringers, distrupting the experience of those checking the game out.

Why does this game seem more vulnerable to these attacks than any other..

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Wouldn't surprise me if they chose to attack again with the full release of Shadowbringers, distrupting the experience of those checking the game out.

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You would think though that they would have done it yesterday for maximum effect. Most players who started on the 28th or the 2nd are probably still playing though so I guess it wouldn't matter.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Honestly? I'm surprised we've had as much up time as we have. The servers have been under extreme stress from the minute early access went live, and have only went down because of outside forces out of SE's control. This could be the same thing happening, or it could also be the servers finally giving up the ghost.

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Must be my bad luck then. I started playing again few weeks before the ShB early start, and there were still few connectivity issues here and there. The reason it is so noticeable to me is mainly because after playing "the game that shall never be named" its usually goes like this, you click play, it loads you select your character and your are in. Server downtime is usually 10-15 minutes.

This will take awhile to get used to but the game is worth it, was just hopeful Square updated their servers in my long absence =D

Well, this is inconvenient. I was on vacation until yesterday so I had only just logged in to start the new expansion when this DDoS hit. I was on a loading screen between Gridania and the West Shroud too, so I might be stuck in between zones.

world full. 2637 players in queue... maybe its back up? be a long wait to find out ><

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Originally Posted by Lyris-Lyanther

Why does this game seem more vulnerable to these attacks than any other..

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Most games I have had experience with have had better protection against DDOS. It may have to do with the cross platform why it is so weak but there are temporary fixes a company can do to stop a DDOS that get servers back up for 5 min and repeat until the issue is solved. So either square is blind to it happening or doesn't have the system in place to counter it once the attacks started

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Originally Posted by Blakkr

Most games I have had experience with have had better protection against DDOS. It may have to do with the cross platform why it is so weak but there are temporary fixes a company can do to stop a DDOS that get servers back up for 5 min and repeat until the issue is solved. So either square is blind to it happening or doesn't have the system in place to counter it once the attacks started

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more like SE really just doesn't care