DDoS two hours after the patch goes live is ridiculous

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I have been wondering if we need to put reviews... or... when there is a livestream... throw demands for answers on there. Since the devs are clearly ignoring the NA side, like most people here have mentioned.

People already do that. For example, they've spammed live letter chats about job changes they don't like. Mostly, they don't read out comments from the stream (they only did that a lot during the pandemic), and when they do it they usually read the Japanese comments. If they read an English comment they obviously cherry pick one that is cosy for them or read it in a way that shifts blame away from SE like "NA has been getting DDoS a lot recently ".

encourage creators to bring it up during interviews with Yoshi-P

Now, if certain content creators like MrHappy or Preach bring it up, they will definitely see it. There is a proven influence that they have, because they changed the alliance raid ilvl cheese after MrHappy brought it up and they repeatedly prioritise Preach for interviews. So I

I’m under the belief that every live event, review, and tech support ticket matters.

If there is a significant enough volume of tickets about it, they'll also struggle to ignore it as well, because they will have to tell their superiors it's a big burden, and those superiors will have to flag it up to the top.

Just stuff like "can I have a refund for time lost due to DDoS" or "can you help me, I keep disconnecting every 9 hours along with my entire party in the middle of raid prog" or "my solo DD run got ruined, can you restore my save file please". Those support tickets will go nowhere, of course, but it'll create noise that is hard to ignore.

I think all of this is already happening, by the way. They most likely implemented the DD change to help with DDoS due to tickets they were getting. They most likely report DDoS on the lodestone as a result of getting tickets about it. Because ones which don't affect a lot of people go unreported on the lodestone.