Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 1 2
Results 11 to 20 of 20
  1. #11
    Player
    Alestorm's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2016
    Posts
    1,085
    Character
    Oraina Fhey
    World
    Coeurl
    Main Class
    Red Mage Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
    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.
    (4)

  2. #12
    Player
    AngelCheese77's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2017
    Location
    Gridania
    Posts
    991
    Character
    Bjartur Arnason
    World
    Coeurl
    Main Class
    White Mage Lv 94
    Here is some info on what a DDOS attack is: http://www.digitalattackmap.com/understanding-ddos/
    (0)

  3. #13
    Player
    Edax's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2018
    Location
    Shirogane, W15 P60
    Posts
    2,002
    Character
    Edax Royeaux
    World
    Leviathan
    Main Class
    Samurai Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Alestorm View Post
    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.
    (2)

  4. #14
    Player
    Zfz's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2013
    Posts
    2,371
    Character
    Celenir Istarkh
    World
    Atomos
    Main Class
    Red Mage Lv 90
    Large scale DDoS attacks are also increasingly used as a distraction from a main targeted credential stuffing attack, which are now one of the primary type and most lucrative attacks targeted at the gaming industry. Often the online service infrastructure is only impacted as a side-effect, as attackers try to destabilize the web infrastructure as part of their credential stuffing attack.

    In other words, it could also be just business as usual. FFXIV grew and is now on the radar of these criminals.
    (0)

  5. #15
    Player
    Maero's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2013
    Location
    Gridania
    Posts
    4,781
    Character
    I'shtola Maqa
    World
    Leviathan
    Main Class
    Dancer Lv 90
    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@!%^
    (0)
    Last edited by Maero; 07-31-2019 at 09:39 PM.

  6. #16
    Player
    Krojack's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2013
    Posts
    750
    Character
    Avellin Adorel
    World
    Excalibur
    Main Class
    Conjurer Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Kirika- View Post
    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)
    These people would lose more business by doing this. They already have access to an endless supply of new accounts using stolen credit cards. They will just load up new accounts in no time. If they crash the servers then they themselves can't farm and sell GIL.
    (0)

  7. #17
    Player
    EaMett's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2016
    Posts
    1,430
    Character
    Ea Sin
    World
    Faerie
    Main Class
    Scholar Lv 90
    The "why" can be anything. There are some foreign mob behaviors of companies that sell "protection" from such attacks and carry them out until you give in and buy their protection.
    Considering World prog was going on it's also possible some people have been trying to disrupt proggers. Or perhaps it's possible some heavy RMT decided they needed more bots and created a lot of them (they probably start off with a lot of them so they can afford bans and eventually when they run low they generate another batch).
    Maybe some other competing company is out there wanting to disrupt FF14. Or simply some kid thinks he's cool.
    It could also be a DDoS against the services they use and not them directly (would impact players the same but they might not be the target)

    Lastly it's also possible this is an issue in their code and they are just using DDoS as an off the cuff explanation when it's a problem on their end (easy to blame)

    Only SE would have an idea.
    (0)

  8. #18
    Player
    The_NPC's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2014
    Posts
    495
    Character
    Ritza Solair
    World
    Behemoth
    Main Class
    Machinist Lv 79
    Quote Originally Posted by Alestorm View Post
    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)
    (0)
    What some see as "distracted" is really "fathoming the unfathomable" - last words from an Ul'dahn Mercurial Chemister at the battle of Carteneau

  9. #19
    Player
    Vahlnir's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2013
    Location
    Tent In the Middle of Nowhere
    Posts
    9,647
    Character
    Elan Centauri
    World
    Diabolos
    Main Class
    Gunbreaker Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Krojack View Post
    These people would lose more business by doing this. They already have access to an endless supply of new accounts using stolen credit cards. They will just load up new accounts in no time. If they crash the servers then they themselves can't farm and sell GIL.
    Yeah, RMTs probably prefer more up time than down time. So I would doubt that they are behind any DDoS attacks.
    (0)

  10. #20
    Player
    Fynlar's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2014
    Posts
    2,991
    Character
    Fynlar Eira
    World
    Hyperion
    Main Class
    Red Mage Lv 100
    Same reason why internet trolls exist. Some people get off on being a pain.
    (0)

Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 1 2