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    Crazy how SE is being hit with constant DDoS attacks for a whole week shortly after they screw up payment processing for an entire region of the globe AND one of the most common payment methods.
    Not saying it's related for certain, but man, that timing makes you wonder.
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    Quote Originally Posted by -Teria- View Post
    Crazy how SE is being hit with constant DDoS attacks for a whole week shortly after they screw up payment processing for an entire region of the globe AND one of the most common payment methods.
    Not saying it's related for certain, but man, that timing makes you wonder.
    As amusing as the timing is, the issue with this line of thinking is that it's pointless to do a DDoS attack like this for such a reason without claiming ownership of the attack and stating you're doing it for said reason.
    There's a 1001 reasons for any botnet to DDoS a large company, a huge amount of reasons that are far more likely/valid than 'some person was frustrated and decided to ruin the fun for everyone else'. So if the attacker wanted to put pressure on Square Enix to solve it, not announcing a targeted motive that Square Enix could bring as pressure to talks with their new payment processor is just stupid, since Square would be infinitely more likely to consider the 1000 other reasons why they'd be getting DDoS'd.

    Doubly so when DDoS attacks on this scale can run thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars, and someone who could pay for it for a week would be 100% financially suave to have alternative means to pay for a subscription in FF14. They'd easily be able to buy an entire account that has dodged all the address issues off an RMT site for what amounts to pennies to them so they could play if they wanted.

    It's highly unlikely the attack is someone's personal grudge. It's basically guaranteed to be some larger corporate reason, like demonstrative purposes for potential clients and FF14 just happened to be something they picked since it is one of the bigger MMOs on the market. "Our botnet took down the servers of a huge MMO" is a great headline for a selling point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daeriion_Aeradiir View Post
    It's highly unlikely the attack is someone's personal grudge. It's basically guaranteed to be some larger corporate reason, like demonstrative purposes for potential clients and FF14 just happened to be something they picked since it is one of the bigger MMOs on the market. "Our botnet took down the servers of a huge MMO" is a great headline for a selling point.
    So far it only caused a lot of mild annoyance so that's not a really great demonstration either.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Taliriah View Post
    So far it only caused a lot of mild annoyance so that's not a really great demonstration either.
    This may be intentional on the attacker's end. Hitting the game intermittently is still enough to disrupt and discourage playing content and is cheaper to do. But this would also likely mean that whoever is behind it, knows more about the game than just "it's a big MMO".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Taliriah View Post
    So far it only caused a lot of mild annoyance
    Well Deep Dungeon solo is no longer a content because of this :/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Somnolence View Post
    Well Deep Dungeon solo is no longer a content because of this :/
    Good. As someone who has experienced stability issues even before the DDoS and got told by the community it's a me problem, I'm glad more people are affected now. Maybe it will make the devs reconsider this design where you need to stay connected throughout an entire 5-10 hour run.
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