This is not a DDOS, Tell the truth SE.

[KihyiFelhede]

The game is still being DDOS'd?

There was a confirmed* (by squenix) DDoS wave as recently as last week. Yesterday there was an NA outage that they reported as a network failure, not DDoS; It is still a pretty bad indication of the state of the servers if NA players assume it was yet another DDoS though.

[Xieldras]

If I'm not getting 90k'd, I'm getting over 10 second delays over basic actions like gathering.

[PaulusHamsteru]

If I'm not getting 90k'd, I'm getting over 10 second delays over basic actions like gathering.

Same here. I got d/c twice in the last hour and had HUGE lag spikes earlier.

[Xboxguy]

I know this thread is a little old but instead of starting a new one, as someone that rarely goes to the forums, I just want to say that for weeks the NA servers have been getting ddos attacks. I’ve lost crafting supplies that took time and tomestones to get. We disconnect in almost every roulette. I don’t know what the Japanese servers are like, but I find it hard to imagine that if this was happening in Japan all **** wouldn’t hit the fan.

[TeresaFortell]

We do have a new update today regarding recent ddos attacks, so at least they are now aware of the situation.

[Shoganza]

In absence of an official statement (not the canned server issues copypasta from the Lodestone), it's hard to take their word that this is DDOS in good faith.

This isn't a celebrity scandal. Ignoring it won't make it go away. The longer there's no word, the more wildly the community will speculate.

I hate to assume that they're not being honest, but it feels like they resolved the overload in Endwalker by leasing cloud servers, and then when player counts decreased, they just decided not to sign a new agreement. I get that it's a business, and there are always going to be some things that they can't anticipate (DDOSes etc.), but if they want people to drop money on the 8.0 preorders and want people to resub, they might need to just bite the bullet and take an up front cost if cloud servers is what they need. People are unlikely to resub or recommend the game to their friends if everything on their socials is about how people are losing expensive crafting mats and high end raiding progress because they get sundered every couple hours.

Releasing a new cash shop glamour before addressing the issue makes them come across as callous.

[Jeeqbit]

We do have a new update today regarding recent ddos attacks, so at least they are now aware of the situation.

No, that was a followup. They updated us when the attacks started, then updated us just now to say that the final attack ended on christmas day.

Until the next ones, of course, which will either be in days, weeks or months.

[TwiceDamned]

If it's not a DDoS situation, it (at least short/medium-term) is over.

It would represent a complete catastrophic failure of the system on a hardware level and they're refusing to tell the truth about it -- if that's the case.

If you don't believe this is either a DDoS or a routing issue with the likes of NTT, unsub. Seriously. Because the game won't be around much longer if the physical hardware is dying on the North American side to that extent.

[shaiel]

Ugh we really shouldn’t even have to be guessing, the devs should be transparent and saying what is wrong & how it’s getting fixed. The only reliable things I expect at this point are seeing new cash shop items in mogstation and disconnecting eventually from NA servers because they won’t even talk about the problem

[TwiceDamned]

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

The problem is that you'd have to do that across the board, because you could say that about just about everyone, top to bottom.