The recent DDoS attack on FFXIV servers.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

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.

Some people just like to bask in their ignorance and blame the people they feel like. I have given up trying to teach, since no one learns. A lot like trying to help people improve in game, as it were. Huh.

[RitsukoSonoda]

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.

Every big name mainstream MMO has had weeks to months of DDoS attack issues. So either you do not remember these instances on your other MMO's, or did not play them long enough to experience them, or the other MMO's you played were small and as such only experienced DoS attacks which are far simpler to resolve.


Its really irksome when people feel the need to post all over about how easy it is to fix things when they have no actual knowledge of what is happening.

[Sigma-Astra]

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.

....What fantasy world are you living in where you think people creating several internet proxies and having them continuously sending massive packets of misinformation to delay and bog down the server has anything remotely 100% failsafe in protecting against it? You can't protect against it and the only thing you could do is have several back-up servers to continue running and hope those don't get DDoS attacked too.

There's no simple solution besides grinning and bearing with it like everyone else does.

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

Well, feel free to join the other MMO's where this happens still because you'll never escape it, even places like PSN and Xbox Live get hit with DDoS, Google and Amazon.com as well.

[NessaWyvern]

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.

Aye, I was just reading about it, and there's many different forms of DDoS, and different ways it can be done. Also, apparently people can pay for DDoS services, so if there's a group of people mad at FFXIV for what ever reason, they don't even need advanced tools to DDoS, they can just throw money at it.

I have found the FFXIV servers, (when they're not being DDoS'd)are some of the most stable that I have ever played in MMOs, especially considering where I live.

[GrimmStargazer]

Ah it's not just me unable to log in.

[Vahlnir]

I have found the FFXIV servers, (when they're not being DDoS'd)are some of the most stable that I have ever played in MMOs, especially considering where I live.

Stable, yes, though badly put together.

[Krokov]

Ah it's not just me unable to log in.

Indeed unable to log onto the game servers myself atm.

[Gemina]

It literally took me 15 minutes to tend my two gardens because the DC icon was toggling on/off. I didn't even bother waiting to get booted and just logged out for the night. Because I tend to go a bit batty when the game is like this, I find it best to just log off and throw on a movie or something to prevent flooding my house with overreaction. The frustration of trying to play/log in during these kind of attacks is just too great for me to handle, so I just close the shutters and wait out the storm. Hopefully it passes soon.

[dotsforlife]

Always hilarious to see all the armchair techs come out of their caves when these things happen.

[dotsforlife]

It's not being an "armchair tech", it's called common sense and asking anyone in the IT field will tell you the same things everyone else has been saying.

My comment is directed towards the sheep who think preventing/stopping/mitigating DDoS is easy or even on SE to handle. I work in the field.