This is not a DDOS, Tell the truth SE.

[jesseleewelch]

What i find interesting is that those news notices that SE puts out concerning DDoS attacks sometimes mention countermeasures. What countermeasures do they speak of and when will they take effect?

[Krojack]

Facts in support of server overload:
- FFXIV is still the world's most popular MMO with over 30 million players (WoW, in comparison, only has around 3 million). We know that Square Enix did not anticipate FFXIV being this popular.
- A lot of people are running the new deep dungeon (if the game world feels empty, this is why).

It does not have 30 million ACTIVE players. It's sold 30 million copies. This also includes people who have to buy the game 2 times for both console and PC play.

We don't know how many active accounts there are but if I had to make a wild guess, it's not over 2 million active accounts.

[Hyperia]

It does not have 30 million ACTIVE players. It's sold 30 million copies. This also includes people who have to buy the game 2 times for both console and PC play.

We don't know how many active accounts there are but if I had to make a wild guess, it's not over 2 million active accounts.

I think the latest lucky bancho survey said there were less than 800k active.

[PvpRaiden]

I already have friends who canceled their sub cause of the ddossing. Sucks but this is where we are at.

I hope someone brings it up during Fanfest

[Mesarthim]

Didn't even get through one roulette. Recollection down to 11%.

[TwiceDamned]

I already have friends who canceled their sub cause of the ddossing. Sucks but this is where we are at.

I hope someone brings it up during Fanfest

If they do, I hope it's a damned incident at this point. This is getting to the point that if we don't hear something long before the Fanfest, one has to question whether they want a North American playerbase of any kind by the end of 7.x.

[SKAshe]

Yeah these DDOS attacks are really getting out of hand. They're happening really frequently too. Especially today . Like every 30 minutes or so? It's definitely making the game unfun right now, getting kicked out so frequently, and I'm not sure why it keeps happening so frequently all the time.

They certainly need to invest further into defending against ddos attacks, or at least try to devise a way to prevent players from getting kicked, because whatever they're doing isn't working at all. I don't blame anyone who unsubs because of this because the game is pretty much unplayable during ddos attacks since we're getting kicked so frequently we can't even play the game.

[Zohnax]

What i find interesting is that those news notices that SE puts out concerning DDoS attacks sometimes mention countermeasures. What countermeasures do they speak of and when will they take effect?

Whatever countermeasures they've done, they've either only done it for JP/EU/OC, or the bulk of the DDoS has shifted to NA in the past two years. Either way, they've put out the same generic message of

During the time listed below, we were experiencing network technical difficulties due to a DDoS attack. Players may have experienced the following issues as a result. We will continue to monitor the situation and work with ISPs to come up with countermeasures.

since September 25, 2021.

[Spellstar]

So much conspiracy theory from our American cousins (shock) about "false" DDOS. I mean why would SE lie? It makes no sense. If they were having network issues at the DC then they would just say that.

I've had no connection problems on the Light Data Centre and not had any DC's since I re-joined 5 months ago. Around expansion launch different story, as for all, but EU data centre seem to be dodging what ever has been going on on NA for the past months. Come join us!

[RedLolly]

What is being lost in the whole thing is the countermeasures are use being able to log right back in instead of fully shutting the server down from the overload.

And it's pretty clear they only hit NA servers.