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[LaurieB]

Looks like the login servers are up, they must have upgraded their firewall since the last -actual- dos attack. Try logging in folks.

I'm in....

[Jade_Gryphon]

Hmm that post doesn't mention giving us free whale mounts as compensation, guess we'll have to wait for an update on that

That stopped being funny since your first post of it. Enough already, ffs.

[Ware]

Honestly this was a lot faster than the last time. It took them nearly a three days. I remember the cue being something like... 12,273 or something when it started to go down. I was expecting a few more hours.

[dapperfaffer]

I really don't understand why they would choose to attack a game server? what do they hope to accomplish other than being irritating?

Thats basically the point. It creates potential backlash by the users for not being able to use the service. It is odd that its a ddos attack on the same day that SE released/updated the Shadow Bringers site with lore on Viera and Hrothgar allowing them to exclude male/female versions of those races.

[Azmura]

I really don't understand why they would choose to attack a game server? what do they hope to accomplish other than being irritating?

Typically that's the point. Just look at day one Archeage Revelations. You would have 3000 hour Q time (Even with a subscription) only to be dc every 10 seconds. It pretty much killed the fresh start servers by being so irritating that people just quit.

[Ware]

Thats basically the point. It creates potential backlash by the users for not being able to use the service. It is odd that its a ddos attack on the same day that SE released/updated the Shadow Bringers site with lore on Viera and Hrothgar allowing them to exclude male/female versions of those races.

The websites are on a different system to the game servers, there isn't an relation there. Except perhaps salt.

[Sythierius]

That stopped being funny since your first post of it. Enough already, ffs.

I'm just trying to free the whales

It would cost SE literally nothing

[Hector]

They choose to DDoS because there paid too

[blawky]

having same issue at the moment, on mateus

[Krojack]

I hear SE banned Blizzard's RMT bots that are used to keep WoW up and running.