How does SE plan to handle any DDOS (if one does happen) on early acces?

[Zfz]

2.0 launch had serious problems because literally every single player had to connect to the same lobby server when they log in. This has changed.

I still think there will be lobby server traffic jam in the first 2 hours of early access. You can try to handle traffic, but there's a limit to what you can do. And then after that there's the server queues. There's every reason to expect server queues in the thousands during peak time, and that has no solution. If you are on a high-population server, get ready to queue.

[Archadius]

I think the OP is referring to DDoS from the absolute tidal wave of players who will be trying to "early access" the HW servers when they go live, not an actual DDoS "attack" like we saw with PSN service, which was due to malicious targeting.

Give the above, I don't think it's really a matter of what SE will do about it, it's a matter of how the players intend to deal with it. When considering how much this game has grown, and how much positive press it's received since the launch of 2.0, it's fair to assume there will be an inevitable DDoS for all or part of the duration of the early access period and literally nothing you can do about it.

Just wait, try to be patient, and hope you get at least one day of early access of out it.

[LineageRazor]

It's possible that SE learned from what happened with the Gold Saucer and will have plenty of extra, possibly temporary servers, to handle the load for certain zones - specifically, I'm thinking the first Ishgard zone you enter after passing through the Gates of Judgment. The way SE's got things set up, the FIRST THING anyone's going to do to experience anything in the expansion requires funneling through that ONE POINT. As soon as Early Access opens, everyone with early access is going to be lined up at the Gates of Judgment. That will be the first wave. As soon as official release happens, that's when the next wave will arrive. By making pretty much everything worth doing having passing through that gate as a requirement, they set themselves up for this, so I hope they're ready to deal with the consequences!

If they're not prepared... I see a strong possibility that it'll be difficult even to zone into Coerthas Central Highlands. The zone will be at capacity!

Early access will mitigate this somewhat, leading me to believe that they offered the feature as much to reduce their own strain as they did as a perk for preorders. Folks that enter Ishgard in the early access days will be able to clear some content and spread out to other zones, making room for others.

[zandervont]

If they're not prepared... I see a strong possibility that it'll be difficult even to zone into Coerthas Central Highlands. The zone will be at capacity!

Also note that:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...iew_at_nantes/
"Both Coerthas West Highlands and the lower layer of Abalathia are accessible at lv50; you can choose where to start. This is to split up the massive number of players that will be doing the main scenario at the same time (both paths will converge later on)."

[Quesse]

I'm pretty sure FFXIV will not undergo a Distributed Denial of Service attack any time soon. Not sure why you think it will.... are you planning something???