Quote Originally Posted by Fhaerron View Post
I realize that this might be hard to grasp, but....

Companies can lie.

IIRC 2016 was very bad for PSN, Poodlecorp were one of the responsible but there have been many others.

Anyway, no doubt SE have DDoS, I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen more but companies use the DDoS card all the time when there's network issues. Sometimes it's true, sometimes it's not.

I should have said 'SE can lie'.
If you think every time a company claims that they have a DDoS attack is a lie, then perhaps you really need to read up more on DDoS attacks first before automatically playing the "every large corporate company is a dirty scoundrel and a liar because I can't my play game!" card.

Blizzard get DDoS attacks all of the time as well, however, they are a bit, and not by a long shot, a bit better at handling their servers than SE does.

I also am not that paranoid to think that every time I don't get what I want that a company is lying to me to save face. Does SE lie sometimes? It's possible.

Would they be lying about DDoS attacks? Probably not. It's bad for PR to have them period, why on earth would a company want to lie about having or not having one to begin with.