Anyone else just get booted from Midgardsormr?

[Myrany]

well I do believe I will play something else tonight. I can finish grinding moogle stuff over the next few days. Missing one day wont matter

[scelesticscylla]

It was posted on the Japanse forums that the servers are under a Ddos attack and that North American servers are going to be affected until they figure out where its coming from and how to stop it, and will update us later (?) Google translated the post from here:

https://tinyurl.com/ddos-ffxiv (The japanese link looked gross since it wont post it with the japanese letters so i made it a tiny url)

But translated it is:

Noc_JP:
Notice of network failure due to DDoS attack (8/3)



Currently, we have confirmed that network failures are occurring due to DDoS attacks, and the following situations may occur due to this impact.



We are taking countermeasures while confirming the attack method, so we will inform you again as soon as there is any progress in the situation.


Record


Date: August 3, 2022 (Wednesday) from around 8:58



Impact:

・You may be disconnected from worlds located in the North American data center.

・It may be difficult to log in to worlds located in the North American data center.

・It may be difficult to connect to the North American data center and send and receive data.


Target: Customers using FINAL FANTASY XIV

[Zer0ofTime]

It was posted on the Japanse forums that the servers are under a Ddos attack and that North American servers are going to be affected until they figure out where its coming from and how to stop it, and will update us later (?) Google translated the post from here:

https://tinyurl.com/ddos-ffxiv (The japanese link looked gross since it wont post it with the japanese letters so i made it a tiny url)

But translated it is:

Noc_JP:
Notice of network failure due to DDoS attack (8/3)



Currently, we have confirmed that network failures are occurring due to DDoS attacks, and the following situations may occur due to this impact.



We are taking countermeasures while confirming the attack method, so we will inform you again as soon as there is any progress in the situation.


Record


Date: August 3, 2022 (Wednesday) from around 8:58



Impact:

・You may be disconnected from worlds located in the North American data center.

・It may be difficult to log in to worlds located in the North American data center.

・It may be difficult to connect to the North American data center and send and receive data.


Target: Customers using FINAL FANTASY XIV

Not hard to figure out the only country in the world at war who isn't allowed to pay to play the game anymore and would DDoS the NA servers.

[Myrany]

Not hard to figure out the only country in the world at war who isn't allowed to pay to play the game anymore and would DDoS the NA servers.

Oh I can think of another country is as of today is pretty pissed at the US and would do it in a heartbeat. And that is as close to political as I am going to get.

[SnowVix]

or, more likely, it's just some bored script kiddie who thinks running a DDOS on a video game will make up for the emptiness in his life.

[Myrany]

or, more likely, it's just some bored script kiddie who thinks running a DDOS on a video game will make up for the emptiness in his life.

Very likely. One last hurrah before school starts again.