DDOS attack

[sindriiisgaming]

We had a few more again last evening. It's getting ridiculous because it keeps screwing with all my pvp farming

[LillyWandsworth]

Okay, this is starting to feel a little malicious.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

They're certainly determined. Gotta wonder why though, if they are mad at SE they're not punishing them. They're only punishing the people who have already paid their sub and won't be getting that game time back. SE isn't losing much.

[caffe_macchiato]

No MMO is going to invest hundreds of millions into DDoS protection when these attacks don't cost them anywhere near that much. The big tech companies cannot afford to go down globally for a day, FFXIV can. It's just a fact.

Oh no, that’s perfectly fine. But I’m not as invested as you are. You and the others believe that FFXIV is the best MMO and that Square Enix is a good company. You defend them no matter what. I don’t hold the company in high regard, so I totally expect this. But you disagree. And even though this forum accused Southeast Asian players as being responsible (racist?), you’ll never find the culprit. So your game will continue to be DDoSed but you’ll continue being giddy about this game despite not being able to play it. And how long are you going to put up with it? For bystanders, this is just schadenfreude. Maybe that’s what the “attackers” really wanted?

[Sove92]

Oh no, that’s perfectly fine. But I’m not as invested as you are. You and the others believe that FFXIV is the best MMO and that Square Enix is a good company. You defend them no matter what. I don’t hold the company in high regard, so I totally expect this. But you disagree. And even though this forum accused Southeast Asian players as being responsible (racist?), you’ll never find the culprit. So your game will continue to be DDoSed but you’ll continue being giddy about this game despite not being able to play it. And how long are you going to put up with it? For bystanders, this is just schadenfreude. Maybe that’s what the “attackers” really wanted?

There are plenty of things I am critical of, but sure, keep putting words in my mouth.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Oh no, that’s perfectly fine. But I’m not as invested as you are. You and the others believe that FFXIV is the best MMO and that Square Enix is a good company. You defend them no matter what. I don’t hold the company in high regard, so I totally expect this. But you disagree. And even though this forum accused Southeast Asian players as being responsible (racist?), you’ll never find the culprit. So your game will continue to be DDoSed but you’ll continue being giddy about this game despite not being able to play it. And how long are you going to put up with it? For bystanders, this is just schadenfreude. Maybe that’s what the “attackers” really wanted?

It seems like you are more invested, you seem to pay to come on the forums and make ridiculous arguments.

[UkcsAlias]

You defend them no matter what.

Its just defense about a single issue they are currently facing, and you state "no matter what".

A ddos is a very specific thing that a lot of MMO's can suffer (and often have). A thing that as dev you rarely can act upon, until it already happens to which you have to scale your defense to the attack. The game might face a lot of disconnects, but for most of the day im still capable of playing it quite well. This indicates they are doing a quite good job here. The outage of chaos was clearly a diffirent issue (and if you went to light you could still play). Sure, the outage took its time to fix, but we dont know the details. It might have even be ddos caused. We cant know. But they fixed the issue within a day, and it had a working workaround. That was to me still good management of their game.

This is completely seperate from gameplay issues, which most people do have some complaints about. And while they might be very vocal about it, its often less than 5% of the game where they actualy face those problems. The 95% they enjoy is still the portion that makes them stay.

Dont think that when players sound frustrated that they truly are angry. Its most of the time just an act of feedback in the hopes it reaches the dev team and they get to improve it. And while it often does take a while, if enough players agree (and therefor repeat/bump these threads), it does reach the devs eventualy. Its a healthy system for a game. If you think the devs always must fix the things within a month, you are effectively asking them to break the game by simply not giving them enough time to decide what is best long term.

[sindriiisgaming]

These ddos attacks only effect pc players aswell. So the ps4/5/xbox players will never need to worry and the population of the game will be decently safe

[MistakeNot]

These ddos attacks only effect pc players aswell. So the ps4/5/xbox players will never need to worry and the population of the game will be decently safe

I am afraid that is not true.
DDoS attacks affect the servers and their network connections. This is independent of which type of client a player uses.

[Sjol]

One of the issues is that DDOS attacks often attack intermediary infrastructure for which the main company, SE, doesn't have direct control. There's no magic wand for solving the problem and swapping providers is not feasible in the short-term duration of the attack. If secondary providers are terrible consistently then they might swap them out at a later date, but it's not going to resolve the attack right this second. It really becomes a question of negligence. Did SE have warning that they were particularly vulnerable to a DDOS and if they were, did they do something. We have no indication as of yet that they were negligent, so I'm trying not to jump to conclusions.