DDoS Attack Confirmed

[Jinorah]

Why would anyone want to do that? I don't understand, Its just not nice.

[Ultimatecalibur]

I don't think so. The DDoS on their servers was probably from someone lashing out due to the many problems their severs had when expansion came out. Someone butthurt probably due to not being able to play while they fixed the issues. This DDoS is (due to the timing) probably someone else who is butthurt over the changes to coil which just happened. I doubt it is a group or one person doing it to both...which is not to say such a scenario is impossible but highly unlikely in my opinion. DDoS canons and other such tools are rented out to individuals so does not require having to be some group with a grand agenda or political agenda by another nations citizens to be the cause of it. Such groups are rare, what is not rare is individuals renting these canons to target servers of companies whom did something they do not like.

The DDoS started at the latest on Sunday, 2 days before they announced how they were nerfing SCoB.

[DoctorPepper]

Timing of the attack is a major factor. Yes attacks can happen anytime but when the attacks happen right after a reasonably large change to one aspect of the game which is closely tied to people well known for having extremely large egos and elitist attitudes it weighs the chance of it being related to that group or more specifically someone within it at a much higher probability.

You don't even know what you're talking about.. that much is clear. You realize that the game suffered the same issue on Sunday right? Several days before anybody knew about the coil nerfs. You're just pulling conspiracies out of thin air and pretending you have something to base your assumptions on when you in fact have no facts at all.

[Fellisin]

Why would anyone want to do that? I don't understand, Its just not nice.

Because there a lot of "not nice" people in the world?

[Bucy]

Ah, but what if they're being DDoSed because someone has gone bonkers dealing with the normal lag/Level3 problems, and they're hoping to goad SE into opening its wallet and getting better equipment/internets? *grouchomarxeyebrowwiggle*

Why you blaming ninjas?...
Probably because it is obviously ninjas :s

[Snugglebutt]

You don't even know what you're talking about.. that much is clear. You realize that the game suffered the same issue on Sunday right? Several days before anybody knew about the coil nerfs. You're just pulling conspiracies out of thin air and pretending you have something to base your assumptions on when you in fact have no facts at all.

The coil nerfs were known to be coming for quite some time prior to the notification of the patch which it came with. It did not take a genius to work out 2.41 was going to have it. Yes they might not have known what the nerfs would be but they knew when it was coming and since it came out the intensity of the attacks have got worse. In fact the person who started the big whiny thread about second coil nerfs that is currently around 60 pages of whining had pointed out and whined about the upcoming nerfs to the coils 2 days prior to the start of the DDoSing and before knowing what those nerfs were also. Just the principle of it being nerfed was enough for her to whine about it without even knowing what would be. It is not hard to assume that others felt the same way and one of those pre-emtively decided to lash out because of it.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Why would anyone want to do that? I don't understand, Its just not nice.

Some people enjoy causing other people problems and with the anonymizing properties of the Internet it can be fairly easy to do so and not get caught.

[Bucy]

People, we knew about SCoB nerfs for months; ever since they nerfed BCoB. This is how SE pushes progression.

Far more likely culprits are RMTs who lost gold and gil from crackdowns, or industrial espionage paid for by a resentful developer.

[Kule]

Page wont load so just had to hit reply.

I'm being personally ddos'd so they have players ips

Found Syncflood attack from 111.140.32.16 in port 23 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 114.40.40.178 in port 445 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found PingDeath attack from 220.168.169.150 in port ICMP => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 218.77.79.43 in port 80 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 117.216.88.110 in port 445 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 182.116.241.51 in port 3389 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 112.85.42.93 in port 9064 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 195.211.154.179 in port 21320 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 123.151.42.61 in port 8088 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

[Limecat]

Why you blaming ninjas?...
Probably because it is obviously ninjas :s

You may be on to something there. It could be a shaped attack that only lets select IP ranges of a few NINs stay logged in, so they can more easily get in-progress runs and only have to wait a few minutes to get a fresh DF group.