DDoS Attacks Confirmed

[Spawnie]

I havent had any lag except mayb 1 5min lag spike in gubal libary via lvling roulette other day o.o

[Enur]

Me being on Odin aswell, the only issues ive been having since launch have been server queues and a single incident with lag in Rhalgrs Reach. Aside from that my experience wit the game have been smooth and mostly flawless.

It could very well be a DDoS attack. WoW had the same issue when WoD launched.

[DamianFatale]

It probably isn't lizard squad. They're not as active anymore.

[ChloeGrace]

1. launch of early access.
2. returning players re-subbing after months away.
3. massive influx of new players after a super aggressive advertising campaign. (Who would have expected that???)
4. No real world stress test on a full server migration just 4 weeks prior.

Recipe for disaster. But hey, if we want to blame a DDoS then you do you, SE.

[Kathryn]

This explains NA servers but not EU last night I was unable to login I was in a que of 1600 when I got home from work by 8pm it had gotten down to 600 but then encountered an error which closed the game making it so I was at the back of the que again of 2600 in which point I gave up.

[Ware]

This explains NA servers but not EU last night I was unable to login I was in a que of 1600 when I got home from work by 8pm it had gotten down to 600 but then encountered an error which closed the game making it so I was at the back of the que again of 2600 in which point I gave up.

That would be the signs of a DOS attack on the EU, for example. If the que kept going up and up and up. That's one thing that happened last DOS attack when it had just started.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Well...

I suppose the servers held up fairly well considering...
They were actually still available during early access...

[Arcana]

As an european player (from Chaos DC), i didnt get any trouble while playing since 16th until now so it can be true. The only problem was the queue but once inside the game i didnt feel any problem.

[wicked-one]

so... a DDoS...



As pointed out, why was then EU Datacenter affected if they attacked the NA ones..?

smells fishy

PS: Monitoring Latency on EU Datacenter looked like this the last 30 days, still we had issues regarding instances in job and msq quests, congested worlds and login queues 2+ hours ...
you can´t blame this exclusively on some third-party alone


http://imgur.com/8jIPsYN
Somehow, my imgur IMG wont show up!?

[Rita1989]

so... a DDoS...



As pointed out, why was then EU Datacenter affected if they attacked the NA ones..?

smells fishy

EU/JP had day 1 issues only which likely due to the instance server overload which passed quickly compared to NA that took 3 days and NA has been having issues since.