DDoS two hours after the patch goes live is ridiculous

[Minarisweet]

You might get called dramatic for that but you're entirely right. Even if it's not a direct attack and FFXIV is just getting caught in the crossfire as others have speculated, this is really harmful for the game's future no matter how you look at it. I don't think a lot of the people defending SE are really processing how horrifying it is that they still don't have it under control.

The people that would are waiting for 8.0 while unsubbed, most people playing will put up with whatever they put out nowadays even if it drops in quality inmensely. Yes i am guilty of it as well.

[Krojack]

I woke up at 5:30am and put on a WFR stream before getting ready for work, and in about 20 minutes I watched that group DC 4 or 5 times.

I don't know what else to say at this point. This is beyond embarrassing.



This theory never makes sense to me, tbh. The serious RMT bot admins make a living off this game, they wouldn't want it to die. Much more sensible for them to just create more bots and go until they get banned again.

On top of that, if the RMT people wanted to make an impact on SE they would hit the JP servers more and just not just NA.

I still don't believe this is a DDoS but a networking hardware problem. It's as if someone unplugs a network cable then plugs it back in. This is a sign that some switch or router could be going bad and flipping the routing to another route. This can cause disconnects.

There are some VPN providers that route your game traffic though other nodes which aren't impacted at all. If it was a DDoS then all routes would be impacted AND it would last for a while. We wouldn't be able to instantly log back into the game.

[Basteala]

Race to world first is gonna have a huge fucking asterisk because of all this.

[TwiceDamned]

You might get called dramatic for that but you're entirely right. Even if it's not a direct attack and FFXIV is just getting caught in the crossfire as others have speculated, this is really harmful for the game's future no matter how you look at it. I don't think a lot of the people defending SE are really processing how horrifying it is that they still don't have it under control.

That's one of the reasons I am getting concerned this is a group which damn well knows what it's doing and why.

And as married as the game and much of the playerbase has been and is tied to RMT...

[Drakogoro]

sooo again.... to many today DDOS.... and no world 1st for us... All peoples go to fan fest in April... need to ask them why and solution do change it...

[SkankyRoe]

I was partly expecting them to keep as usual for the savage rekease just to make it seem like SE or NTT was the reason and not a malicious actor.

This is wild and really bad.

Yup my expectation was that the ddos attacks would magically stop until, at the very least, the WF race was finished, as they did for the previous two tiers and FRU. That it's happening this time around takes the issue to a whole new level, because the WF race is much more front and center than the regular day to day gameplay, and JP players participate as well. Given how seriously WF racers take the prestige surrounding it, I can't imagine the JP WFers would be too thrilled to have the prestige of their participation dimimished due to these attacks giving them an unfair advantage. At the very least this should warrant an actual serious response from Yoshi P over the usual copypasta news post.

[TwiceDamned]

Yup my expectation was that the ddos attacks would magically stop until, at the very least, the WF race was finished, as they did for the previous two tiers and FRU. That it's happening this time around takes the issue to a whole new level, because the WF race is much more front and center than the regular day to day gameplay, and JP players participate as well. Given how seriously WF racers take the prestige surrounding it, I can't imagine the JP WFers would be too thrilled to have the prestige of their participation dimimished due to these attacks giving them an unfair advantage. At the very least this should warrant an actual serious response from Yoshi P over the usual copypasta news post.

Today, I truly believe, is confirmation this is a nefarious actor who not only knows what they are doing, but has the finger on the pulse of the game -- which makes me think they are a former player who had a large (monetary) stake therein.

[Drakogoro]

again.... welcome do doom of lag/disconnected...

[wirebones]

Even if they can't do anything to prevent it, at minimum we should at least get some sort of game time compensation. It's truly the least they can do.

As a console player, I'm not even getting frequently DC'd, but I still have to spent 10-15 minutes every instance waiting for the rest of my party to come back. It's a waste of everyone's time that is being paid for.

[P0sitr0nic]

Ive heard some theory that the DDOS is coming from japan to block US raiders from world first :\