The recent DDoS attack on FFXIV servers.

[MetalSnakeXI1]

How many servers were affected?

I know goblin was cuz i couldn't log in at the time of the OP post of this thread.

At first I thought it was latency issues until I saw the news on twitter so I wonder if things have been resolved by now and which servers got hit if not all of them

[Vahlnir]

Basically all of them at this point. JP, NA and EU data centers are being hit. I don't like what's going on, but I do admire the tenacity of who's behind it.

(If you're reading this, please stop. Think of the server hamsters!)

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Basically all of them at this point. JP, NA and EU data centers are being hit. I don't like what's going on, but I do admire the tenacity of who's behind it.

(If you're reading this, please stop. Think of the server hamsters!)

Yikes that's really bad.

Like.....who's benefiting from doing this attack?

"Oh hey look I stopped people from playing a video game....yay me".....

[HyoMinPark]

Cactuar was affected. Pretty much all of Aether and Primal went down about an hour ago.

Yikes that's really bad.

Like.....who's benefiting from doing this attack?

"Oh hey look I stopped people from playing a video game....yay me".....

They probably aren’t DDoSing the SE’s servers directly, but rather the ISPs that route us to SE’s servers. Think of it as, they haven’t blocked entry to the building (SE’s servers), they’ve just blocked entry on the road leading to the building (the ISPs).

[Nestama]

Like.....who's benefiting from doing this attack?

I don't think they care, though they'd likely give you a nonsense reason. Possibly similar to whatever that group is called did with the PSN servers a few years back on Christmas ("we did it so that Sony would work on strengthening their servers to prevent DDoS" or some stupid nonsense like that).

It's really just to be a pain in the neck and maybe make customers angry at SE. S'how I see it, anyway.

[Nyvara]

Yikes that's really bad.

Like.....who's benefiting from doing this attack?

"Oh hey look I stopped people from playing a video game....yay me".....

While I'm no expert I believe DDOS attacks can also be used to gain access to servers in order to steal information. Like what happened to Sony some years back.


Welcome to the new normal

Yeah most of these groups answers are total bs in that they do it so companies improve their servers. It is more in the lines of I am going to screw over all those gamers just so i can fill my needs of making people upset.
A special place exists for these people..

A sub division in the eighth circle of hell reserved for script kitties and hackers where there is never any wifi.

[Maero]

A sub division in the eighth circle of hell reserved for script kitties and hackers where there is never any wifi.

Exactly this ^

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Some people just pride themselves on being jerks just because making someone upset is justification enough. Not really anything you could say to change their minds.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

Some people just pride themselves on being jerks just because making someone upset is justification enough. Not really anything you could say to change their minds.

Pretty much this. For some of these people the reasoning is irrelevant; they simply get a joy out of getting people upset and that's the only reason they need.

[Brill_]

Pretty much this. For some of these people the reasoning is irrelevant; they simply get a joy out of getting people upset and that's the only reason they need.

"Some men just want to watch the world burn.”