For people who are talking about how SE needs to do something about DDoS attacks, what do you propose be done?
I know you think that your $14.99 USD/month is a lot of money, but it's not. Companies like Amazon or Google have thousands of square footage of independent machines running their servers. These publicly-traded companies deal with money on a scale that SE is nowhere in the league of. So it is actually very unreasonable for you to expect that somehow the company can be protected at all times from this level of attack. Of course, as time passes, SE can try to find and isolate some things... but that takes time.

Also, there isn't a reasonable expectation that specifically the FF14 servers would be targeted by this form of attack. This kind of attack is often reserved for trying to disrupt government websites, and other big-fish in the world. Not some random MMO that has no affect on the world's economy, policy, or even a mass-level of users (yes, approximate 14 million is a lot of people, but not for this kind of statement).

Really, you should be more upset at the people doing it. It is really stupid how some people get their kicks. They are literally targeting servers of a game, where the sole purpose people connect to, is to have fun.
So these people, whatever their motive is, are actually the biggest d-bags because their sole purpose is just to stop the fun of a select group of people in the world.