DDoS Attack Confirmed

[Drako]

I kind of suspected this sort of thing has been going on. But I think SE isn't admitting the full length of time this has been going on. You can check back and see several threads of people complaining about getting dropped from instances. Even groups of people doing coil struggling because they keep having half there people drop. I know there's been something unusual going on for a couple months at least. I have a handful of people in my FC that started having strange issues with the game. Getting dropped, lagging/rubber-banding. They've all spent a lot of time and effort to try resolving it on their end to no avail. They even tried WTFast, just out of desperation. This felt so much like that DDoS attack that hit FFXI years and years ago. It just started out small and got bigger and bigger until finally it gets to this point. GL getting it resolved SE, we know you'll get it done. You've been down this road b4, so has just about every successful MMO.

[Tiggy]

I kind of suspected this sort of thing has been going on. But I think SE isn't admitting the full length of time this has been going on. You can check back and see several threads of people complaining about getting dropped from instances. Even groups of people doing coil struggling because they keep having half there people drop. I know there's been something unusual going on for a couple months at least. I have a handful of people in my FC that started having strange issues with the game. Getting dropped, lagging/rubber-banding. They've all spent a lot of time and effort to try resolving it on their end to no avail.

It's entirely unrealistic to think they've been getting DDoS'd for months. Meanwhile there is an exceptional amount of evidence showing that the connections between backbones at level3 have had problems for years even before FFXIV started. Most US users must go through these poor backbone connections before hitting the game serer. Even apps like WTFast are only but so effective at routing around major internet choke points. Especially when there are few viable options to go around it.

Just because people have connection problems doesn't automatically make it a DDoS, or even a server issue. There is a vast and complicated network between the players and the server that causes quite a bit of problems.