FFXIV DDOS (server down) Reward Concept

[Kokonji]

If the downtime is caused by internal SE (like maybe some SE employees "accidentally" cut all the server wire caused server down) i agree the player should incentivized.
But if the cause is external, they should not.

the reason is simple, because it's own player could do that.
Imagine this example: some player will ddos just because he cannot play at the time (weekdays at work for example) for the rewards. This player thinks it wouldn't affect his playtime at all, afterall when he comeback from works, he could just deactivate the ddos machine, the game become playable again, and he get rewards for ddos-ing the server.
Now Imagine that example happen all around the globe, with different players in different time zones, suddenly we got near zero uptime.

Maybe this is a bit extreme, but when i remember how many so called "hacker" cracking website just for bragging and "lol i hack this", i could see this will happen eventually when they implement this ddos-reward system.

[Jojoya]

If you want to be compensated, then go after the fools who are instituting the DDOS attacks.

SE is already suffering far greater financial harm trying to fight off those attacks than you are by losing out on your 15 cents of game time.

[Shougun]

Bit sad many people are assuming the worst, I didn't make some big speech on players deserving compensation - in fact the reward required you to take a break. The whole point was to get players to stop stressing at the start screen and to just go take a break.


I'm fine with people thinking it'll cause more problems than help, but please stop assuming the worst about me and assuming I'm demanding SE refund me my 15 cents or whatever (not everyone has done so, but a few have and it's a bit disheartening). I'm aware it's not SE's fault and I don't hold anything against SE for people attacking them, and I don't think SE needs to bend over for rare abnormalities (DDOS being one that is not even being their fault). I was only trying to smooth an experience out by encouraging people to take a step away when the servers were under attack or some weird server crashing bug (and I can see many people think it would just end up making worse- so I'm totally fine that the concept dies too, which surely making it worse would be reason not to implement something lol).