Quote Originally Posted by YumieYumiki View Post
How do you know?
How do you know its not?

I mean if we think about it - the fact is that some servers run smooth as butter. To assume it is squares fault you'd first have to assume they are lying about the DDOS attacks. To assume it isn't you need to only really believe they are not unequivolcally deceiving their player base.

As for it being a DDOS; probably is and given the passion of FF XIV players and those that are spiteful in it I would not be surprised if someone that got banned for RMT and a mountain of disposable wealth is just like "well screw em all." thats to say nothing of corporate espionage which is very common in Japan. Consider where the DDOS happens - the NA servers which have the largest consistent population - if the issue was hardware based outages; then you should be seeing the DC's happen whenever the traffic hits similar levels - which we don't according to online graphing. So *something* is pushing the DC waves to hit - and it almost seems scheduled which means its not something the general player base is doing because then it should be able to be tied to some sort of benchmark we seem to hit - but its hard to believe we hit the SAME benchmark every night at 8pm EST on Crystal for example; and only on weekdays.

Really its not viable to consider something outside of a bad actor - the only other suggestion is some automated process like a back-up is scheduled at the time this seems to consistently occur; but if that were the case then what about all the NA servers that do not get hit? Its possible Dynamis for example doesn't get hit because its on a different schedule; or newer hardware - but then why not aether? That to me suggests it is somehow targetted - just seems too many things lining up at once.