DDOS Attacks

[Awha]

I have been playing FF14 for many years, and SE has always taken the high road and not turn these people in to the authorities and keep on spending money and resources on IT infrastructure.

It's 2021 and we are about to go into the Finale of FF14 & Hydaelyn Saga, and I think SE needs to take a hard approach (i.e. all ip logs, referrals, payment info, and affliations) and start turning in these cyber criminals and post mugshots and public criminal court cases on the FF14 official website as a strong WARNING that SE will not tolerate cyber criminals and DDOS attacks.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/report...ercrime-online

We can assume that they are planning for an attack when Endwalker starts in November, and I think SE needs to firmly and unequivalently tell players this will no longer tolerated now or in the future.....

You do know how it is to trace and prevent DDoS attacks? They are a nightmare, and if the place of origin is a country that does not give a crap SE can try to punish them but if the country does not play ball what can SE do?

Sure would be nice to watch them burn but reality is different. If a group wants to DDoS the game they will just a nature of the beast it is less about prevention and more about recovery after the attack.

[Liam_Harper]

I never understand how random forum posters can type things out like "It's not hard at all. It's extremely easy. It's just filling out a form below." and actually believe it.

Like, someone can seriously believe a decades old multi billion dollar company like Square Enix with an entire legal team and multiple advisors has never thought of this simple idea, but luckily for them a lv43 goldsmith alt on the forums has done a 5 minute google search and linked the necessary form, so all their problems are solved and huge sums of money wasted on IT infrastructure will now be saved. Do they visualize Yoshida himself browsing the forums, desperately in search of answers to his DDOS troubles, reading this and praising the heavens for providing the answer?

I mean ...what?

[Kes13a]

I never understand how random forum posters can type things out like "It's not hard at all. It's extremely easy. It's just filling out a form below." and actually believe it.

Like, someone can seriously believe a decades old multi billion dollar company like Square Enix with an entire legal team and multiple advisors has never thought of this simple idea, but luckily for them a lv43 goldsmith alt on the forums has done a 5 minute google search and linked the necessary form, so all their problems are solved and huge sums of money wasted on IT infrastructure will now be saved. Do they visualize Yoshida himself browsing the forums, desperately in search of answers to his DDOS troubles, reading this and praising the heavens for providing the answer?

I mean ...what?

well, Liam... come on, get with the program!

SE is Japanese, so would only google things that are in Japanese. duh.

the armchair legal analyst/developer is obviously googling in english,

/s

[RitsukoSonoda]

I never understand how random forum posters can type things out like "It's not hard at all. It's extremely easy. It's just filling out a form below." and actually believe it.

Like, someone can seriously believe a decades old multi billion dollar company like Square Enix with an entire legal team and multiple advisors has never thought of this simple idea, but luckily for them a lv43 goldsmith alt on the forums has done a 5 minute google search and linked the necessary form, so all their problems are solved and huge sums of money wasted on IT infrastructure will now be saved. Do they visualize Yoshida himself browsing the forums, desperately in search of answers to his DDOS troubles, reading this and praising the heavens for providing the answer?

I mean ...what?

Those people are generally the ones that think anything is easy if someone else is doing it. But the moment they need to do something themselves it's suddenly impossible.

[Tsukino]

Those people are generally the ones that think anything is easy if someone else is doing it. But the moment they need to do something themselves it's suddenly impossible.

I don't know about that, I doubt they're all corporate executives.

[Sotaris]

You do know how it is to trace and prevent DDoS attacks? They are a nightmare, and if the place of origin is a country that does not give a crap SE can try to punish them but if the country does not play ball what can SE do?

Sure would be nice to watch them burn but reality is different. If a group wants to DDoS the game they will just a nature of the beast it is less about prevention and more about recovery after the attack.

Maybe they based their post on NCIS or something where you can trace a bad guy in moments.

[StriderShinryu]

I never understand how random forum posters can type things out like "It's not hard at all. It's extremely easy. It's just filling out a form below." and actually believe it.

I mean, we have non-random forum posters who have been here on the forums and around the game for literal years basically saying the same things about pretty much any change they want to see in the game. I don't get it either, but it's not really surprising at this point.

[RitsukoSonoda]

I mean, we have non-random forum posters who have been here on the forums and around the game for literal years basically saying the same things about pretty much any change they want to see in the game. I don't get it either, but it's not really surprising at this point.

Yeah lol. What were some of the more common ones?

Oh just make housing instanced and magically everyone now has a house.

Buy these cheap servers from amazon and login queues go away

Just add more dps slots to duties and dps queue wait goes away.

I know there's more of these I'm forgetting atm.

[Sotaris]

Don't forget about the neverending discussions on seasons.

[DragonFlyy]

Wanted: the hacker known only as 4chan.
Reward: 200 Gil.