This is not a DDOS, Tell the truth SE.

[justausername]

with the fact that its only NA, its likely not SE servers themselves being attacked. Likely some nodes... which is why not everyone gets DCd every time.

It could also be related to the high solar activity this past week. Bit of a coincidence that this happens same time. Solar radiation can effect internet.

[BlisteringFrost]

with the fact that its only NA, its likely not SE servers themselves being attacked. Likely some nodes... which is why not everyone gets DCd every time.

It could also be related to the high solar activity this past week. Bit of a coincidence that this happens same time. Solar radiation can effect internet.

That'd make too much sense. See, if it ISN'T a DDOS, which it TOTALLY has to be, then we couldn't get..... c o m P e n S A t i o N!

[Avoidy]

Apparently people from Arizona, and people using VPNs to route through Arizona, aren't being kicked offline. I'm going to try it now and see if it works.
edit: I left the game on with a vpn running from AZ for a few hours while I took a nap. I returned to a 90002 error lmao...

[Bugodin]

From a long time subber - whatever excuse is being used, disconnecting of large groups of paying folks is not acceptable. Troubleshooting and resolving takes humans with brains. Find some, pay them, and fix this.

[luv2board58]

Ive been DC'd over a dozen times this weekend. I'm sick of paying over 35 dollars a month for this game while continually getting kicked while you guys have the inability to fix the darn problem. You are a billion dollar company. DO BETTER.

[DaKitten]

Oceania (Materia) is not DCing people atm, I'm currently visiting Ravana to craft.

[BlisteringFrost]

Ive been DC'd over a dozen times this weekend. I'm sick of paying over 35 dollars a month for this game while continually getting kicked while you guys have the inability to fix the darn problem. You are a billion dollar company. DO BETTER.

Have you tried playing another game? Maybe not paying for ALL RETAINERS if the cost is the issue?

[Jeeqbit]

A DDoS is meant to be due to hacked machines with viruses being commanded to send malicious packets all at once. Thus, if they continued doing it regularly, the owners of those machines might notice. Most likely they don't want to permanently ban lots of IPs because they could be dynamic and result in lots of player bans, so it becomes trying to figure out which traffic is malicious as it happens.

I suspect most of the DDoS attacks are not even aimed at FFXIV. Most likely FFXIV gets caught in the crossfire from DDoS against other services hosted at the same data center or nearby locations, or in other cases major ISPs decide to throttle traffic causing packet loss for most FFXIV players due to most of them crossing through that ISP's wires.

The recent ones do seem more directly aimed at the data center as opposed to nearby ISPs, because it seems to be affecting everyone rather than just certain players on certain routes.

It is really a problem though. How can we do the new content, the deep dungeon, knowing all our progress might be lost? My entire party disconnected in the 71-100 range but fortunately one of them anticipated it and logged out and back in pre-emptively to avoid the attack, allowing them to get back in before the rest of our characters were properly logged out. My last run, I didn't notice any issues but 2 players died and they said they loaded in dead from their perspective, so it was obviously a DDoS that wiped us and shortly after the failed run I got disconnected too.

If I decide to do a raid, how do I know a DDoS won't disband our whole party while we're progressing it?

Apparently people from Arizona, and people using VPNs to route through Arizona, aren't being kicked offline. I'm going to try it now and see if it works.

That was my strategy when only certain players were being affected by DDoS a year or so ago. I thought, let's route through Arizona instead of directly across the middle of America and usually it was better. Eventually, it felt like SE's own countermeasures started catching me because of the VPN IP itself being a datacenter IP, and disabling the VPN then stopped me disconnecting.

[BlisteringFrost]

A DDoS is meant to be due to hacked machines with viruses being commanded to send malicious packets all at once. Thus, if they continued doing it regularly, the owners of those machines might notice. Most likely they don't want to permanently ban lots of IPs because they could be dynamic and result in lots of player bans, so it becomes trying to figure out which traffic is malicious as it happens.

I suspect most of the DDoS attacks are not even aimed at FFXIV. Most likely FFXIV gets caught in the crossfire from DDoS against other services hosted at the same data center or nearby locations, or in other cases major ISPs decide to throttle traffic causing packet loss for most FFXIV players due to most of them crossing through that ISP's wires.

The recent ones do seem more directly aimed at the data center as opposed to nearby ISPs, because it seems to be affecting everyone rather than just certain players on certain routes.

It is really a problem though. How can we do the new content, the deep dungeon, knowing all our progress might be lost? My entire party disconnected in the 71-100 range but fortunately one of them anticipated it and logged out and back in pre-emptively to avoid the attack, allowing them to get back in before the rest of our characters were properly logged out. My last run, I didn't notice any issues but 2 players died and they said they loaded in dead from their perspective, so it was obviously a DDoS that wiped us and shortly after the failed run I got disconnected too.

If I decide to do a raid, how do I know a DDoS won't disband our whole party while we're progressing it?

Play another game until they fix it I guess.

[DaKitten]

A DDoS is meant to be due to hacked machines with viruses being commanded to send malicious packets all at once. Thus, if they continued doing it regularly, the owners of those machines might notice. Most likely they don't want to permanently ban lots of IPs because they could be dynamic and result in lots of player bans, so it becomes trying to figure out which traffic is malicious as it happens.

I suspect most of the DDoS attacks are not even aimed at FFXIV. Most likely FFXIV gets caught in the crossfire from DDoS against other services hosted at the same data center or nearby locations, or in other cases major ISPs decide to throttle traffic causing packet loss for most FFXIV players due to most of them crossing through that ISP's wires.

The recent ones do seem more directly aimed at the data center as opposed to nearby ISPs, because it seems to be affecting everyone rather than just certain players on certain routes.

It is really a problem though. How can we do the new content, the deep dungeon, knowing all our progress might be lost? My entire party disconnected in the 71-100 range but fortunately one of them anticipated it and logged out and back in pre-emptively to avoid the attack, allowing them to get back in before the rest of our characters were properly logged out. My last run, I didn't notice any issues but 2 players died and they said they loaded in dead from their perspective, so it was obviously a DDoS that wiped us and shortly after the failed run I got disconnected too.

If I decide to do a raid, how do I know a DDoS won't disband our whole party while we're progressing it?

That was my strategy when only certain players were being affected by DDoS a year or so ago. I thought, let's route through Arizona instead of directly across the middle of America and usually it was better. Eventually, it felt like SE's own countermeasures started catching me because of the VPN IP itself being a datacenter IP, and disabling the VPN then stopped me disconnecting.

Oceania isnt having that issue atm, have your static visit there.