Quote Originally Posted by winsock View Post
Who cares? Setting the ToU stuff aside, the ethical thing to do would be to compensate people in some way. It's a common practice and the ToU doesnt prevent SE from compensating people.
SE is not the one doing the attacks, SE is on the receiving end of it. They are as much a victim of the attacks as you are. Since when is it ethical to make a victim compensate another victim for something they have no control over?

Quote Originally Posted by winsock View Post
If you cant get your mind of the ToU and I join in on playing lawyer, the line i snipped would be the one i would contest. You are only speculating that SE is delivering quality and connectivity to the very best of their abilities. I would speculate that they are delivering the quality and connectivity that they can within the game's budget, which is a very different thing.
You'd make a bad lawyer if you did this. Their ability to deliver service is directly tied to their budget, your statement makes no sense. You also have no knowledge about hard they are or are not working to deliver quality service; you chose to believe they aren't doing their best despite it being in their best interest to do so and despite the fact that they've said so and the evidence all pointing to them doing so. There is no amount of money in the world that will make a company immune to a DDOS attack. You can mitigate its effects but you can't stop it and with the exponential growth of the Internet of Things and non existant security on those devices, the scale of the attacks is significantly outpacing the ability to mitigate through more capacity or faster hardware or more efficient software.