PSN is down

[RyujinUzikin]

I wonder if there's a way to prevent this, some effective counter-measure. It seems laughable a multimillionaire company can be screwed by people who are probably unemployed and bored.

[DefendPopPunk]

I wonder if there's a way to prevent this, some effective counter-measure. It seems laughable a multimillionaire company can be screwed by people who are probably unemployed and bored.

Try multibillion dollar company.

[Lithera]

I wonder if there's a way to prevent this, some effective counter-measure. It seems laughable a multimillionaire company can be screwed by people who are probably unemployed and bored.

Unfortunately there isn't a whole lot you can do to prevent DDOS attacks on servers that are already high traffic. A DDOS attack is simply spamming a server with requests/data until it crashes. You can redirect traffic across all the servers you want but a connection into your network is always going to start with one server (Lobby in the case of FFXIV) which can easily be flooded faster than it can reroute connections.