Quote Originally Posted by Taliriah View Post
Given that it only affect some character and not others, it's definitely 100% unrelated to DDoS, and I hope that SE sees it that way too and won't start looking into this only after the DDoS stops.
I disagree, this could still be related to DDoS. You say it's definitely 100% unrelated, but to know that you'd have to know the detailed infrastructure of the platform. I suspect only infra engineers at Square Enix would know this.

To give just one example of how it could be related to DDoS, consider that the DDoS caused Square to remove a number of servers from the system because they'd been compromised and it was affecting the rest of that datacenter's performance. Imagine if one of those servers was running an instance of a dungeon or other duty. It's now been taken offline, but your character was in that duty when it got taken offline.

(For clarity, when I say servers it could be compute, or virtual machines or whatever they may have. Under each of those IP addresses listed at https://is.xivup.com/adv they will have multiple components running the game.)

You can't log back in because the server is offline. You won't get insta-kicked from the duty when it ends because it doesn't end, because the server is offline. You can't world travel because it needs to know where you're coming from, but it can't find your character's location to get that detail (error 10105).

The solution would be to fix the server and bring it back online, or for square to force log out of the characters from some administration console.

But if this is only affecting a relatively small percentage of players on only one data center and the DDoS attack is still ongoing across the whole game, then their priority is going to be keeping the system stable and combatting the DDoS attacks. They might make a decision to not bring back broken infrastructure or fix player issues until they have the situation under control.

Plus add the maintenance this morning to that as well and any issues they might still be fixing as a result.

Saying that - I hope they will resolve this soon. My partner hasn't been able to log in since last night and he got DC-ed while in Heaven-on-High. Tried changing IP addresses, DNS, antivirus/firewall, different PC, on PS5, different internet provider. No luck