The recent DDoS attack on FFXIV servers.

[Vahlnir]

Aether got hit too so pretty much all NA is down I guess.

[HyoMinPark]

From what I’ve heard, JP also got hit. So I’m guessing all the servers went down.

EDIT: Managed to get past the lobby server, but I’m in a queue.

EDIT 2: I was in the game for maybe a minute or two and poofed again.
I’m just gonna go read.

[Ruru_Nayu]

Chaos is fine but got hit at primetime

[NessaWyvern]

From what I’ve heard, JP also got hit. So I’m guessing all the servers went down.

Is it bad that I thought "Well good thing JP is down now, because it might get their attention"?
This is the first DDoS I have personally witnessed, and the novelty is very quickly wearing off.

[Vahlnir]

Is it bad that I thought "Well good thing JP is down now, because it might get their attention"?
This is the first DDoS I have personally witnessed, and the novelty is very quickly wearing off.

I've seen it happen before both with FF XIV and WoW. It's...definitely not a fun time, that's for sure.

[Nestama]

What's going on is SE doesn't appreciate us as customers, so we should take our money elsewhere.

Real answer is a DDoS happened again and isn't SE's fault because DDoS attacks are tough to defend against.

[Dirwen]

I've seen it happen before both with FF XIV and WoW. It's...definitely not a fun time, that's for sure.

I experienced it in FF11 before which was my first mmo and I was raging that day when it happened.

[Macleod]

Real answer is a DDoS happened again and isn't SE's fault because DDoS attacks are tough to defend against.

Nah, if they really cared they'd be taking action against their crappy data center for not protecting themselves better. I've played plenty of other MMOs that had to deal with DDoS attacks, and guess what, none of them lasted for WEEKS. Things were usually fixed up and stable within a couple days at most.

[Sakuraluna]

Ouch, that's nasty, hopefully you get lucky and have all the NMs spawn.



Looks like they are targeting the NA servers now I guess. :/

Seems like it. This is also not the first issue I’ve seen tonight. At one point a couple hours ago, myself and a number of other members of my fc were all disconnected at once, and a little after that I experienced some pretty intense lag in a pvp instance, so I kind of figured it was coming. Still annoying though.

[Vahlnir]

Nah, if they really cared they'd be taking action against their crappy data center for not protecting themselves better. I've played plenty of other MMOs that had to deal with DDoS attacks, and guess what, none of them lasted for WEEKS. Things were usually fixed up and stable within a couple days at most.

DDoS attacks aren't really as simple as building a digital wall. Preventative measures can be taken, sure, but when there's so much data clogging up the connections there sadly isn't a whole lot that can be done other than to wait it out. You should probably understand the nature of these attacks. They are very, very difficult to fight back against. I'm sure they've only gotten more advanced over the years as well.