So.. Um... The Datacenter kinda died for a few seconds there.

[Mirassou]

I disconnected and was greeted with this:

ikr? so did they bump the current people playing to make room for new log-ins? not a good idea

[Taybat]

ddos attack? or too many players suddenly cause of the free login event?

[Enla]

The World is currently full.
Players in queue: 1,118.


Never seen this, what's going on!?.

All the servers took a hit. Either through a coordinated DDoS attack or something funky on SE's end. We likely won't know until they put out a statement.

[LittleImp]

I think it might have been something to do with one of the server hops in between NA players and the FFXIV servers. I was running a VPN at the time and it prevented me from dcing, while my 7 party mates got booted.

[Gemina]

The World is currently full.
Players in queue: 1,118.


Never seen this, what's going on!?.

Since you are new to this, I just want to give you a heads up that when trying to get back in don't cancel out of the queue regardless of how long it is. Just let it sit, and you'll see the number go down, and you will eventually get back in.

[ElazulHP]

Square's ISP - "NTT - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone" is the source of the problem. Their node "xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net" is taking a giant shit right now apparently. I'm getting 100% packet loss at it still. Been going on for at least an hour or two intermittently. If I had to guess the cause it would probably be because Square just announced that they're offering a free 8 days playtime for former subscribers so you have a ton of returners logging in all at once after they got off work. This is likely to continue happen this entire week too until the promotion is over.

[Cyreil]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...3841dd87b02be7

They said it was a DDoS.

[Skivvy]

Excal - I got dc'd and then 1000+ in queue
not acceptable
so bump the people playing to make room for new log-ins? Not good

ikr? so did they bump the current people playing to make room for new log-ins? not a good idea

Where are you getting that idea from?

[Mirassou]

Where are you getting that idea from?

just a bad joke, born of frustration, sorry
I am actually very supportive of the FFXIV team and their efforts

[Skivvy]

just a bad joke, born of frustration, sorry
I am actually very supportive of the FFXIV team and their efforts

Oh sorry D: But yeah, I do always feel for people who are right in the middle of a duty..or crafting. I had thankfully just been afk with dinner and missed nothing :/