This is not a DDOS, Tell the truth SE.

[Espon]

I have trouble believing it's a DDoS for the simple fact that everytime people drop, it's always the same people kicked and the same people not affected. That seems more like some type of ISP issue or something else other than a DDoS on the game itself.

DDoS attacks rarely attack the game servers directly and instead hit a particular internet node. This causes only certain people that connect via that node to be affected by the DDoS attack.

Unfortunately, in many of these cases Square Enix has little control over these issues as it's outside of their network, yet people will blame them anyways because they don't understand the specifics as to why they got DC'd and cannot reconnect.

[SicariusSeven]

Has SE said anything? Getting real sick and tired of not being able to do stuff. The DDOS attacks, if they are that, are getting more and more frequent. The NA data centres have been hit every day this entire week alone!

[Jeeqbit]

Has SE said anything? Getting real sick and tired of not being able to do stuff. The DDOS attacks, if they are that, are getting more and more frequent. The NA data centres have been hit every day this entire week alone!

They just said what they usually say.

We are currently experiencing technical difficulties due to a DDoS attack.

We are looking into the way attacks are being made and taking countermeasures. More information will be provided as the situation develops.

Unlike the previous one from the day before (the 4th), this one from the 5th didn't have a followup - which means they don't believe it's had a resolution. It's been about 5 days since that notice.

[TaleraRistain]

I have trouble believing it's a DDoS for the simple fact that everytime people drop, it's always the same people kicked and the same people not affected. That seems more like some type of ISP issue or something else other than a DDoS on the game itself.

It's the NA DCs so probably one of the major nodes or the ISP that they use for NA getting DDOS'd. It's also affecting other games. My hubby has had issues in Fallout 76. And usually when we have issues, he has issues there and vice versa. So probably using the same NA backbone.

[miraidensetsu]

A DDOS in pretty much all scenarios is a consistent denial of service attack, if it were happening it would not be as inconsistent as this "DDOS" is.

Even with DDOS protection in place, it would still not be this inconsistent.

This is a server overload or server hardware issue, I'm not buying the excuse.

Please fix the actual problem.

Well, there are some guy that fills Limsa with naked roegadyn to show off its hate for lalafells and thousand bots under the city connected while legit players who do want to connect or just play the game s/he paid for can't because that guy must waste that connection with that.

Frankly, S-E should actually do something about this. A server that makes me wait in a queue to log-in to a server where almost no one is playing. If I go to Kugane to see the "max level" trial players, I see no one there. If I go to Tulliyolal, no one. If I go to Limsa, the game's hub, almost no one besides that naked roegadyn. But the server is slow with so many connections.

[Exmo]

Well, there are some guy that fills Limsa with naked roegadyn to show off its hate for lalafells and thousand bots under the city connected while legit players who do want to connect or just play the game s/he paid for can't because that guy must waste that connection with that.

Frankly, S-E should actually do something about this. A server that makes me wait in a queue to log-in to a server where almost no one is playing. If I go to Kugane to see the "max level" trial players, I see no one there. If I go to Tulliyolal, no one. If I go to Limsa, the game's hub, almost no one besides that naked roegadyn. But the server is slow with so many connections.

The network packets of idling characters would contain less data than that of active players - those checking retainers, those practicing rotations on striking dummies, those dodging raid boss mechanics. More activity means more data must be transmitted. You should be thanking the roe bots because their connections actually alleviate server load.

[miraidensetsu]

He would actually alleviate server load if he just disconnect and go play something else.

And bots is a bigger problem on this matter. And S-E does almost nothing about that.

[localareanetwork]

Facts in support of DDOS:
- WoW just introduced a premium currency and a lot of people are upset. Usually, a DDOS coincides with bad news in WoW.
- A lot of bots got banned, so the bot owners are taking it out on FFXIV.
- We correctly deduced that "other" countries like Malaysia, Philippines, etc. were behind last year's DDOS due to the payment processor change. Maybe they're still having trouble paying their subs?

Facts in support of server overload:
- FFXIV is still the world's most popular MMO with over 30 million players (WoW, in comparison, only has around 3 million). We know that Square Enix did not anticipate FFXIV being this popular.
- A lot of people are running the new deep dungeon (if the game world feels empty, this is why).

Okay I'll bite the bait. Where did you get this meme 30 million number from?

[BlisteringFrost]

He would actually alleviate server load if he just disconnect and go play something else.

And bots is a bigger problem on this matter. And S-E does almost nothing about that.

You have problems and the weeb police are not those problems, my duder.

[RedDeathXR]

DDoS attacks rarely attack the game servers directly and instead hit a particular internet node. This causes only certain people that connect via that node to be affected by the DDoS attack.

Unfortunately, in many of these cases Square Enix has little control over these issues as it's outside of their network, yet people will blame them anyways because they don't understand the specifics as to why they got DC'd and cannot reconnect.

"Square Enix has little control."

Yes. The only game where this regularly happens for multiple years long now.