This is not a DDOS, Tell the truth SE.

[Basteala]

Honestly, fire and replace everyone in the NA division. You need competent people in those offices, not whatever drooling dipshits you have right now.

[FeyFavilla]

For those lurking, looks like the servers have been restarted. I would suggest not doing anything that might lose you progress or materials for the time being.

[Rongway]

Shadow too, which an EU datacenter

Shadow isn't a real DC. It's a temporary DC that only gets enabled for, e.g., expansion launches, to reduce the load on the two real DCs. Characters can't be created on it; they can only visit.

[Khev]

That it's frequently been near exclusively NA datacenters being affected, it makes you wonder how little they actually care about that region of the playerbase.

[DiaDeem]

Whatever's going on, it's become annoying enough to make me post here. It's happened enough throughout the expansion that two weeks added to our sub would be a nice gesture of good will at this point.

[Krojack]

I worked in a datacenter NOC for 18 years. None of this looks like DDoS activity to me. FF14 has had HORRIBLE network problems ever since they moved the servers to NTT in Cali years back.

[hydralus]

I worked in a datacenter NOC for 18 years. None of this looks like DDoS activity to me. FF14 has had HORRIBLE network problems ever since they moved the servers to NTT in Cali years back.

What would you say it the biggest indicator that it is not a DDoS and instead something to do with shoddy networking/servers?

[KihyiFelhede]

What would you say it the biggest indicator that it is not a DDoS and instead something to do with shoddy networking/servers?

I'd like to know this as well. The thread has completely veered off topic into discussion about DDoS mitigation and how squenix should be compensating us when the original claim is that they are covering up whatever the real issue is by claiming it was DDoS attacks. There's already rampant misunderstanding about the nature of DDoS attacks going on here and while I'm as frustrated as anyone I really do not see how this is helping. Unless someone can provide some solid evidence/numbers/what have you indicating some other source for the issue it is just actively ruining our credibility to be playing conspiracy theorist about this issue, as if squenix needed an excuse to not take us seriously anyways... The company cutting corners when it comes to mitigating attacks and failing to communicate to customers is a bad look already. I fail to see how that would be a good cover story for busted hardware or whatever the current theory is.

[EchoingPulse]

The game is still being DDOS'd?

[Xactly]

Shadow too, which an EU datacenter

That was just a datacenter meant to mitigate the congestion during Dawntrail where you were only allowed to datacenter travel.