Well, you can reopen all those threads on the DDoS'es...

[TwiceDamned]

They're BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK...

Look, it's either, as I've said for a couple weeks now, a very determined group or something is fatally wrong in the game or it's infrastructure.

DO SOMETHING.

[Doki]

World 1st raid race next week is gonna be a total mess. GG SE

[ZephyrMenodora]

Maybe they will get bored after the holidays. Seems someone is just extra-spiteful this time of year.

[TeresaFortell]

I am shirking away from end-game content, especially DD. It is still frequent and too many disconnects at the moment.

[Jeeqbit]

It's just their poor choice of data center location and ineffective DDoS mitigation strategies, which were even brought up when they moved location around Stormblood release, where they acted like it was a good decision.

NTT says it has the ability to determine one type of traffic from another. Maybe it would help if FFXIV itself shared details of its packet structure with NTT and included in all packets a code that changes every 30-60 seconds that only NTT and connected clients know, making it a lot of work to attack FFXIV specifically.

[Raikki]

If you needed more proof that NA are second class citizens to SE, you should know that the Japanese servers get expensive enterprise DDoS mitigation service from Akamai Prolexic in front of them.

[TwiceDamned]

World 1st raid race next week is gonna be a total mess. GG SE

They're going to have to postpone. The probability that malicious actors is going to decide World First is effectively 100%.

[Supersnow845]

They're going to have to postpone. The probability that malicious actors is going to decide World First is effectively 100%.

Square won’t postpone anything because they don’t care about us. They put the JP servers behind extensive DDOS protection then just shake their shoulders when NA spends 4 years with on and off DDOS’s because they won’t pay to protect us despite us making up over half their playerbase

I’d bet money some interview will come out in like 6 months where yoshi p does a “wait you guys have ping problems à la machinist” with DDOS’s

[NanaWiloh]

If you needed more proof that NA are second class citizens to SE, you should know that the Japanese servers get expensive enterprise DDoS mitigation service from Akamai Prolexic in front of them.

Every mmo treats foreign customers like second class. Look at wow oceanic players have been treated like second class for 15yrs.