DDOS attack

[EZGIL]

smol indie company

plz understand

[Casmir_Chev]

Primal is now hit, trying to get back in with a 400 queue. Why do I have a feeling this is just a warm up for DT? I hope SE invests some of th emoney in anti DDOS software. This game makes them enough money.......

[Oizen]

play other games - yoship

[Kranel_San]

I'm so glad my subscription is over before having to see any of these DDoS shenanigans, and I think I might keep it down for quite a while.

[AnnRam]

Primal is now hit, trying to get back in with a 400 queue. Why do I have a feeling this is just a warm up for DT? I hope SE invests some of th emoney in anti DDOS software. This game makes them enough money.......

FFXIV money going back to the game?
please look forward to Forspoken and buy the collection edition fam.

[E4EO]

Another one? Awesome, I was going to get home from work and take a nap rather then hopping on to play, but knowing SE, the server's will still be borked hours later from this post, probably into the night. Maybe if we're lucky it'll be a quick fix.

Truly the smallest of indie companies

[Zelarned]

I believe primal was hit just a few minutes ago as of writing. My entire party suffered a huge lag spike during a dungeon. Thankfully none of us disconnected save for one and we got past through most of it w/o further incident.

Not a good omen for DT to say the least.

[caffe_macchiato]

Okay, look guys. I just got the latest list of copes from the Official Final Fantasy XIV Community, and you MUST agree.
1) This is not a DDoS, this is actually because American nodes are down but not Japanese. You see, Japan is this wonderful place where everything is perfect, so naturally they deserve a working game but we don’t. WoW is American so if you have a problem with other cultures, go play that.
2) This is a terrorist attack made by other countries in a specific part of the developing world in retaliation for anti-piracy changes. The Axis of Evil hates us because we are free. This anti-freedom terrorism is unjustified and cruel, and it is not SE’s fault. (Insert racist dog whistles here)
3) Every single other website and game has DDoS. WoW had this issue that one time ten years ago. So did Club Penguin and Neopets. Literally every website has this issue, it’s just normal and you need to learn to touch grass and go play other games.

In fact, to show support for the developers, I’m going to preorder Dawntrail another ten times just so Yoshi-sama can feel appreciated. It’s so cruel what these terrorists are doing to us, SE is just a small indie company and I’m sure they’re doing everything they can. After all, SE has great netcode and website infrastructure, right?

[rizzy24]

2) This is a terrorist attack made by other countries in a specific part of the developing world in retaliation for anti-piracy changes. The Axis of Evil hates us because we are free. This anti-freedom terrorism is unjustified and cruel, and it is not SE’s fault. (Insert racist dog whistles here)

Heavy allegations. Unless you have proof it's not true.

[UkcsAlias]

I've heard that DDoS attacks can be costly for the attacker as well, so it's not really sustainable for a long period I think. I think also the longer the attack goes the more Intrusion Protection Systems (IPS) start to kick in...I found it very interesting but I plan to research it further because my brain isn't wrinkly enough for this.

For ddos attacks the prices differ massively, and prices arent linear. The heavier the attack, the faster the price goes up. And especialy when they become very heavy, its exponential. The price betweeen the strongest attack and one at half of that is a diffirence of like 500x here. Maintaining large botnets is very expensive.

This is why IPS systems are problematic for ddos attacks long term. Initialy the ddos is cheaper than the defense, but once they scale up, pricing here is quite linear. As long as you can buy a server, you already require a ddos to be significantly stronger to compensate.

Also, if its detected which sources are known to be part, they can be blocked well ahead of the target. It only needs to pass through 1 of the datacenters that are part of a global system to avoid big ddos attacks, and suddenly your attack becomes crippled. And yes, large datacenters do these things because they otherwise would also risk hardware damage when a target is near one of their DCs.