Quote Originally Posted by Ayan_Calvesse View Post
How do you know its not?
I don't. I'm not claiming to have a definite answer, but occams razor suggests it's more likely to be that the servers cant handle the load

I mean if we think about it - the fact is that some servers run smooth as butter.
Yes, those in EU and JP, which are much less populated.

To assume it is squares fault you'd first have to assume they are lying about the DDOS attacks.
Have they said that the disconnects occuring since 7.4 deployment are DDoS attacks? Keep in mind that from a end user pov, the symptoms of a DDoS attacks and the symptoms of the servers simply buckling under legitimate load are exactly the same.

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.
Or the servers cant handle the load resulting from a spike of activity caused by the patch release. Occams razor suggests this is more likely than your novel sized wall of speculation.