DDoS two hours after the patch goes live is ridiculous

[Basteala]

Surprised at how few people even care enough to complain any more. You should be demanding change.

I imagine a lot of them are going into WoW.

Hey should we all just make new topic complaining about the poor service?

[PvpRaiden]

Amen.

People need to complain more so this is taken more seriously, but people just shrug and play other games. Its why this has been an issue since before stormblood. Best thing we can do is keep the forum up so people remember to tap in and voice their fustration at this situation.

[TaleraRistain]

It is very likely that the attack is targeting the NTT node, not squenix servers themselves. This is backed up by the fact that very often during these waves there will be swaths of players on PSN or a certain ISP who do not get booted or vice versa (I've been in parties where only half of us get booted several times). However since NTT is what they rely on for JP servers, it seems squenix is either unwilling or contractually unable to switch providers as a means of resolving the issue. Either way they should seriously reconsider their reliance on NTT in NA, this has been an ongoing issue for quite some time and offloading the responsibility to ISP is clearly not working.

This is probably it. That node is notorious.

[TwiceDamned]

I'm not sure sufficient change can occur without either arresting somebody (if this is a DDoS), or a long-term game takedown (in the case of needing all-new server architecture).

[Hanzz96]

Square Enix are pretending they don't know there is an issue and trying to pass it off as ISP issues.

[Aidorouge]

I imagine a lot of them are going into WoW.

Hey should we all just make new topic complaining about the poor service?

Personally I've debated jumping back into SWTOR of all things, but aside from that there's not really any other MMOs I want to play right now other than FF14, and even that one regularly tests my patience where I drop out for months at a time.

[RedLolly]

I play here because I wanted to try the online Final Fantasy, the fact it's an MMO was just something I adjusted to. I wouldn't switch to WoW or anything so much as I would just stop playing.


What I wonder is if SE does swap to a different service provider for the NA servers, would that *actually* do anything to relieve DDOS issues in the long run. A part of me is so bloody jaded over this kind of cybercrime that I really don't see any solution that would actually fix it. Everything possible to my limited knowledge is just a few mitigation efforts, and we don't know if they're in place to an extent and the DDOS attacks are way worse than we know.

[Aidorouge]

I play here because I wanted to try the online Final Fantasy, the fact it's an MMO was just something I adjusted to. I wouldn't switch to WoW or anything so much as I would just stop playing.


What I wonder is if SE does swap to a different service provider for the NA servers, would that *actually* do anything to relieve DDOS issues in the long run. A part of me is so bloody jaded over this kind of cybercrime that I really don't see any solution that would actually fix it. Everything possible to my limited knowledge is just a few mitigation efforts, and we don't know if they're in place to an extent and the DDOS attacks are way worse than we know.

Unfortunately, Square-Enix has already engaged in self-sabotage of the NA servers when they moved them all to California thus causing latency issues for people on the east coast and more central parts of the USA. It also didn't do any favors for folks in Canada and Mexico (or Central & South America for that matter).

So it's fair to be concerned that their own fix could make things worse, but they also can't just keep ignoring the issue until it blows up. Like... PHYSICALLY blows up if their system is going down this fast under such strain.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

One interesting thing to note when it comes to these ‘DDoS’ though, I recalled getting not so dissimilar DDoS in plenty of previous MMO I played in the past. But a lot of times they were merely giving me a large dose of lag spike for a good minute or two. After that everything just reconnects & catch up in hilariously ‘turbo fast’ mode. Disconnection was a rare occurrence. But in FFXIV it’s the exact opposite. Sometimes not even a DDoS, a simple one line of RTO in command prompt could easily make the game client ‘gives up’ trying to reconnect at all.

[Bugodin]

Please keep the servers up longer then a couple hours a day. Getting tired of paying for a game that is always going offline.