Quote Originally Posted by Aerlana View Post
could you link me some thing speaking of ddos doing game mass DC like we have here, during more than 1 week elsewhere else in lets say... 5 past years?
Lets not forget that, because you point wow... that SE get 2 more years experience at handling MMORPG (and i spoke about games not only wow or MMORPGs :-° LoL, CS etc )


Really, when i see wow, lol, CS, steam servers, twitter, or any big things that could be a target of choice to any DDOS attack... i have hard time finding anything that long... ... Some time yes, 1, 2, even 3 or 4 days. and i didnt cry the first week here. prefered patience...
but now... ... After ddos attack one year ago. And so much more thing to say about what they do to around servers (lets speak of how many month with the 4.1 latency matter? and when even some did continue have "call your ISP, not our matter anymore" . Hard to consider SE is now working on this matter seriously...
There is nothing you can do to prevent a DDoS attack. There are measures to take to prevent it from being catastrophic, which they have stated they are doing, but you cannot prevent nor stop a DDoS attack. Especially since these attacks aren't always directed at SE servers but the ISPs routing into those servers which SE can do nothing at all about.

In regards to WoW in 2010 a man consistently launched DDoS attacks against WoW servers from February until March. There were also the Lizard Squad attacks that have hit Blizzard multiple times for weeks on end. Hell just in 2016 from August to September Battle.net itself was constantly being struck with DDoS taking multiple games down at a time. This also does not include the DDoS issues that World of Warcraft by itself suffered from November to December of 2014. It really just takes a simple google search. Though it's not common for these issues to be so prolonged, because the people behind them usually get bored or get caught for long term ones, they do happen. The SB launch was a huge mess for a number of reasons, not just DDoS, and that can be held against SE. This no so much.