What exactly is the point of a DDOS attack?

[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@!%^