Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
Amazon and Microsoft have been brought down by ddos attacks. No one is safe and anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't understand how internet infrastructure or ddos attacks work.
Shhhh let all the "server admins" on here tell you how easy it is to prevent DDOS attacks. Its kind of insane when you think about it; FF XIV wants to allow in as many users as possible with as fast a ping as possible while folks seem to think that the a DDOS is just a cloud PC pretending to be a bunch of different things. I would recommend people spend more time at places like www.netscout.com; many companies get DDOSed every week and sometimes the recovery might be fast - especially if you own or basically control all the points of ingress. By comparison MMO's and SE are VERY little fish compared to Enterprise IT companies like Microsoft and even then Azure pretty much has access issues almost daily.

Honestly FFXIV is pretty much a front runner in the market and the FFXIV game has a lot of motivated enemies and some very vindictive ex-players that with a little effort and a few 100 dollars can pay for a DDOS; heck you can google that as its not even that super pricey.