DDoS two hours after the patch goes live is ridiculous

[thereal_aliceanders]

DDoS attacks have been plaguing this game for years, and Square Enix’s response has been exactly what you’d expect: absolutely nothing. Players dump ridiculous amounts of money into this game, and in return we get the same unresolved problems over and over. Funny how it’s “not an issue” everywhere else, though. I’ve played on Japanese and European servers, and somehow the sky isn’t falling there.

So no, you’re not crazy. The white knights can stop pretending this is normal, and SE can stop acting like they’re delivering anything close to our money’s worth.

[TwiceDamned]

I don't truly think it has ever been DDOS, but the decision by Square Enix to penny pinch.

If it were that, they'd kill the game entirely.

[TeresaFortell]

I don't truly think it has ever been DDOS, but the decision by Square Enix to penny pinch.

Prior to COVID, I recall servers having nodes in NY and Montreal Canada, and I never experienced DDOS.

Post-covid, SE merges all these nodes into Cali with a cheap-ass ISP. No more nodes in NY and Montreal. And we have been plagued with their so-called "DDOS" that they blame, and claim there is not much they can do.

But think about it lol. Connect the dots.

I think it is time whenever they are on live letter or live stream, to demand answers on this. It seems they are just going to remain quiet and shrug it off since not enough people are making noise and we all just throw money at FF14 as it is.

With the surge in players, you would think they would invest more in this matter.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

Aye I suspect there is some automated process running at NTT that kills the link.

[amadeokristoff]

If it were that, they'd kill the game entirely.

That made no sense... bro... why would they kill their cash cow? every company cuts spending and increases profit. i.e., SE is penny pinching and not investing... and their servers are crapping out..

i am not sure what you were trying to get at there...

[amadeokristoff]

With the surge in players, you would think they would invest more in this matter.

i mean. the surge of players has not stopped. but think about it, it took them 10 years to add new servers and introduce more server capacity... 10 years... though player surge has been happening for many years.

[Larrious]

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

just unsub bro. Stop playing this shitty game

If you hate it so much, then get off the forums. Unless you're just here ragebait people, which I suppose works if you have nothing else of consequence going on in your life.

[Gaiinahat]

I.T. professional here. I don't care what they say. It is NOT due to DDOS attacks. It is their shitty servers. It's even causing the forums to lag.

[Jeeqbit]

I.T. professional here. I don't care what they say. It is NOT due to DDOS attacks. It is their shitty servers. It's even causing the forums to lag.

A lot of people in the community are IT professionals or are otherwise very experienced with computers. People in the IT field are more likely to play a PC MMORPG. Their primary audience is frankly computer nerds. Added to that, how it's become IT or bust as far as jobs go over the years.

You can see that so clearly just by such things as how many people have insane gaming computers with multiple monitors in the tech support forums, how many people can casually participate in a discussion about programming in the game, etc.

It's all speculation at the end of the day. It can be both things at the same time (DDoS attack + hardware or software that doesn't handle it well). Or it could just, in fact, be a DDoS. Usually, it seems to be an attack on a node near their server that everyone's connection goes through, so they don't have direct control over it. The other regions aren't experiencing it.

As far as the forums go, they used to have way more lag. They eventually figured out the reason for it. It was because the forums got stuck processing massive open threads with thousands of pages, and this background processing was making it take minutes to load certain pages. They went and closed the biggest threads because of it. Usually very fast for me, otherwise.

[NorthernLadMSP]

And again just now.