DDoS two hours after the patch goes live is ridiculous

[SalamanderIX]

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.

That's been happening a lot too, people getting the big lag spikes at the same time.
Unfortunately, it seems more rare than just disconnecting. And it happened again, for... the 9th time today?

[PvpRaiden]

DDos Tally for 12/20/2025: IV

DDos Tally for 12/21/2025: I

(Relative to Est). My friends were in ranked and all dcd. Now its a coinflip if they derank or not. Thanks for not fixing this issue yet and only saying "DDOS occoured"
I prob wont be awake to add in the early morning ones, so please bretheren, continue the tally so this forum doesnt buried.

[Unixeon]

This is no longer a forum post. It's now a cry for help.

I'd like SE to at least give us a breakdown of what's particularly causing this, where it's most affected, etc.
Give us some info, don't just say "Technical difficulties due to 'DDoS' attacks-" with a depressed moogle...

All these attacks for, what, a year straight now? Longer??? Constantly????
Are we planning on some sort of compensation for the worse days?
Are we planning on just letting it send it's course??
Can we get some cloud servers yet? Something??
I genuinely dont know the logistics of all this nonsense, but it really seems to me like these servers need some work..

[Larrious]

Square is going to continue to tell us to just deal with their pathetic excuse for a service, regardless of the fact that we pay a subscription for said service. We need to get a class-action suit going in NA.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

That's been happening a lot too, people getting the big lag spikes at the same time.
Unfortunately, it seems more rare than just disconnecting. And it happened again, for... the 9th time today?

I only dodge the disconnection by using VPN. Still gave me large lag spike but I ultimately survived that while seeing everybody in Limsa square getting their pokeball of doom lol.

[NightHour]

Funny how it only happens to NA... Which is Hosted on an NTT network.


EU isn't hosted on NTT and is fine.

[bic12]

Square is going to continue to tell us to just deal with their pathetic excuse for a service, regardless of the fact that we pay a subscription for said service. We need to get a class-action suit going in NA.

You waived that right, there's an arbitration clause now in the EULA.

just unsub bro. Stop playing this shitty game

[ZephyrMenodora]

Some mentally unhinged people out there that spend their time ddosing a game. How pathetic they must be lol.

[RedLolly]

That's fascinating that it is far less noticeable on PSN. Is it that way for Xbox players or are they getting tagged in the DC waves, too?

[CCheshire]

You waived that right, there's an arbitration clause now in the EULA.

just unsub bro. Stop playing this shitty game

I mean if he unsubbed we'd lose the opportunity to post on your weekly troll threads and posting on a paid forum for MMO you clearly hate for years now