The recent DDoS attack on FFXIV servers.

[Vahlnir]

Maybe this is a sign that SE needs to stop taking money from FFXIV and actually start putting some of it back? This is only going to get worse with more games become online only, server bandwidth needs to shared and more servers will need to be built. Luckily I was working so hopefully its back up after I post this.

I agree that the game needs way more funding than it clearly gets, but...this isn't something throwing money at the game can really solve. Other issues like actually good content and character creation? Sure! But DDoS attacks are extremely difficult to counter, especially on this scale. So...we just need to wait it out. Eventually whoever's behind it will get bored.

[KageTokage]

I got DC'd several times within a period of 20 minutes earlier today, which was particularly stressful because it happened just prior to the Southern Thanalan S rank spawning after a hour of FATE spamming.

Thankfully nobody touched the thing until all parties involved in getting it show up were present.

[Wyssahtyn]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...b3b4a365873f53

Another statement from SE regarding the intermittent DDoS attacks was posted about an hour ago.

[Ryaz]

Well, that explains the massive lag when I first logged on this afternoon. It got better, but I logged off before more attacks hit. FC mates couldn't get on tonight because the servers were constantly down.

[Nyvara]

It was so bad last night Adders were actually winning in frontlines!

/duck

[Sigma-Astra]

It was so bad last night Adders were actually winning in frontlines!

/duck

Adders always win on my server, that or Maelstrom....it's when the Flames win that you kind of tilt your head towards the side like "What?", lol.

[Skivvy]

Adders always win on my server, that or Maelstrom....it's when the Flames win that you kind of tilt your head towards the side like "What?", lol.

That's been my experience too on our data center D: Flames seem to rarely win (that's my current GC), and this is why I always enter as a free agent

[Aerlana]

yes i understood what you said.

But when other game get far less DDOS matter than SE there is 2 solution

1) SE is on this point (like so much others...) in the way "spend less money, always less" and so... this
2) They are focused by a better/more determined guy or group of people.

... personnally i consider the matter is more SE side than the attackers. you consider the other way. The thing is no proof, on one side or the other. but the "SE victim" way is the one i can consider the less...

Really strange that the matter is far more there on this game than any other...

[Paladinleeds]

But when other game get far less DDOS matter than SE there is 2 solution

1) SE is on this point (like so much others...) in the way "spend less money, always less" and so... this
2) They are focused by a better/more determined guy or group of people.

Truthfully, I actually think it's a bit of both. As I mentioned previously, there are mitigating strategies that can be applied (but aren't completely failsafe), and I do believe that SE could be doing more to handle this since I hear their "Technical limitations" excuse so much, I'm more surprised when they actually say they CAN do something. But Square Enix is a huge brand, and FFXIV is a very popular game, as well as being run by Japanese developers not western developers (unlike Blizzard, the main rival, which is a western development studio), so there's popularity as well as racist intentions potentially going on here further conflating the issue and making the attack at higher risk (as well as increased risk of higher potency).

[Vrankyl]

yes i understood what you said.

But when other game get far less DDOS matter than SE there is 2 solution

1) SE is on this point (like so much others...) in the way "spend less money, always less" and so... this
2) They are focused by a better/more determined guy or group of people.

... personnally i consider the matter is more SE side than the attackers. you consider the other way. The thing is no proof, on one side or the other. but the "SE victim" way is the one i can consider the less...

Really strange that the matter is far more there on this game than any other...

See I don't know why everyone is thinking this has only happened to SE this bad. I remember the one holiday season where World of Warcraft was practically unplayable for weeks because of DDoS attacks, and World of Warcraft had far more resources to use to throw at it. Didn't stop the servers from constantly crashing until the culprits were caught.