What exactly is the point of a DDOS attack?

[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.

[Alestorm]

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.

No company would be THAT stupid, not even Bethesda/Actiblizzion would stoop so low as to break the law in most countries just to spite a competitor. Their "fanbase" on the other hand.... yeah...

Honestly Blizzard has one of the most vile fanbases I've ever seen to date. No matter what happens it's someone else's fault, not the devs who made the changes. Granted not all are that bad, but the extremely vocal minority are the problem.

[Edax]

No company would be THAT stupid, not even Bethesda/Actiblizzion would stoop so low as to break the law in most countries just to spite a competitor. Their "fanbase" on the other hand.... yeah...

Honestly Blizzard has one of the most vile fanbases I've ever seen to date. No matter what happens it's someone else's fault, not the devs who made the changes. Granted not all are that bad, but the extremely vocal minority are the problem.

Well we've seen EA has been willing to bribe Reddit mods to censor Battlefront critics. Bribing a 3rd party to conduct random DDOS attacks doesn't sound that much of a stretch.

[Maero]

I must agree with Edax, scummy companies like Activision or EA it would be nothing for them to resort to DDOS
The kids doing ddos think it's cool i suppose, because years ago around xmas time those of us on PS consoles had seen attacks also. They just like to be Pr@!%^

[The_NPC]

Honestly Blizzard has one of the most vile fanbases I've ever seen to date. No matter what happens it's someone else's fault, not the devs who made the changes. Granted not all are that bad, but the extremely vocal minority are the problem.

I am a Blizzard "fan" not a Zealot, hehe Protoss, but I do own & enjoy at lest 3/4 of their games when I have time (SC1/SC2/HOTS/Overwatch) but even I wanna smack them over the head HARD lately... honesty I wanna smack Bliz & Behesda over the head HARD... & well EA... EA is dead to me, damn Shisno's

as for this DDOS thing, I mean there is a itty bitty tinny smigin near impossibility of a "by the gods" epic, 1 on a D20, roll of a chance someone just accidentally, ACCIDENTIALLY... caused the whole sever room to lose power (I say this as a joke but it "could" happen, I mean about as possible as dying by lightning strike while in the middle of a empty grass field on a clear day while lying down with 100% lightning resist buff & wearing zero metal, but possible)