Quote Originally Posted by deadcrow View Post
They say it's a "DDoS Attack" but it's not, it may actually be a DDoS but no one is attacking them, they're just using that for a BS excuse for their poor infrastructure and lack of planning for the amount of players accessing the servers.

DDoS = Dynamic Denial of Service.
Distributed Denial of Service*

Quote Originally Posted by Rhindas View Post
Our FC was discussing that awhile back, during the fiasco that was early access. DDoS, maybe, but what if it's not malicious, and it's just the players trying to login en masse? It's just wild paranoia and speculation, probably, but we've seen the servers can't handle floodgates.

Eh, I'll get the tinfoil hats out.
It wouldn't match up with what I've seen previously. We've had queues before with no connectivity issues. If that was the reason I'd expect it would always be a problem during queues, not just sometimes.