What exactly is the point of a DDOS attack?

[OhnoozeMyToes]

I don't get it. It's it just people getting off to interrupting others game time?

I don't understand the point of this.

[RyuDragnier]

Just people who have no life and live to see others suffer.

[armandojc3]

Is it bad?, I was planning on getting on in about two hours.

[Wyssahtyn]

The point of the attack itself? To disrupt the targeted service. Reasons why the attack is performed in the first place vary between a third party renting a botnet and using it to attack the service due to some perceived wrong or what have you, and the botnet's owner advertising their "product's" capabilities so that they can sell or rent them out to said third parties, in which case, it's simply a matter of business.

[Kirika-]

Most likely organized by the RMT / BOT sellers/programmers as a "revenge" thing after a ban-wave, which is when these mostly seem to occur (save content release days)

[AlphaFox]

Most likely organized by the RMT / BOT sellers/programmers as a "revenge" thing after a ban-wave, which is when these mostly seem to occur (save content release days)

Guess that would make sense as it also kicks everyone or most people to make way for the new bots to mass invade.

[Mistyregions]

It's a pathetic show of force that are carried out by people who have no ethical quandaries with ruining other peoples lives and money in order to force continued, repercussions free cheating.

It's also a low key way to assassinate your market competitors.

[Darkstride]

Someone that's either throwing a tantrum or just has literally nothing better to do.

[Vivi_Bushido]

Sometimes the DDoS is by hacker groups. Sometimes it's done by bot groups that want to get their bot accounts in game before the masses do. On other occasions, sometimes it's the company themselves paying people to hack their software to purposely discover the bugs. And other times it's other business hacking it because it's their competitor and they don't want them to succeed while other companies DDoS to sell a service suggesting they need to their services to prevent the attack from happening.

More often then not, it's business related than cyber terrorist related. It's more about the money than about the pleasure of upsetting millions.

[Edax]

I don't get it. It's it just people getting off to interrupting others game time?

I don't understand the point of this.

Financially, FFXIV's competitors would have motive to disrupt the game. Not saying that's the case but that could be the point of resorting to DDOS attacks.