why does this game get DDoS so much?

[Tatiana]

why does this game get DDoS so much? Genuinely curious why it's so frequent with this game.

[CamuiKushi]

Revenge for Dawntrail

/s

[Kes13a]

because they can... and its an easy target apparently

SE isnt the only group that goes after low hanging fruit

[Tykku]

Advertisement. The companies/groups/governments that provide ddos services can claim that they took down a game with 20million players. We're not the target, we're the ad.

[gllt]

A lot of speculation is that it's revenge from banned RMTers.
People DDoS games for lots of ridiculous reasons and it's not hard to do it if you have a little spare cash.

Someone will probably shout that it's just bad servers and I don't disagree but I also 100% believe people with nothing better to do would DDoS one of the most popular games over some stupid gripe. People do really absurd stuff when it comes to popular multiplayer online games.

[VoidsentStatus]

why does this game get DDoS so much? Genuinely curious why it's so frequent with this game.

I don't know if I just didn't pay attention as much before, but I noticed a significant uptick ever since the week long DDOS or whatever when they did the payment method update that affected OCE/SEA

[PrincessLily]

Nerds are doing it.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

A lot of speculation is that it's revenge from banned RMTers.

Revenge from banned RMTers would be the worst reasoning, I really don't know why people think that logic.

"Ah yes, lets get back at Square Enix by doing something that will piss off their consumers exclusively and that the company doesn't really need to care about since it'll just go away after some time! Oh, and these same consumers are our customers! Damaging the game and thus causing someone to potentially leave the game out of frustration and thus reducing our potential clientele is totally the best thing to do!"

RMTers have better things to do than to waste money hurting their own business.

The real reason is almost certainly just DDoS companies advertising their services. "We took down a game from a AAA game studio in charge of one of the biggest MMOs on the market!" is a powerful headline to prospective buyers.

[VoidsentStatus]

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I mean, a simpler explanation would also be to say that when DDOS's are happening/people are getting kicked, that affects their own ability to log in which costs them lost money directly + lost sales time. Even server lag is breaking bots. You're shooting yourself in the foot twice as hard for something you can't even maintain.

[NegativeS]

Advertisement. The companies/groups/governments that provide ddos services can claim that they took down a game with 20million players. We're not the target, we're the ad.

"We took down a game from a AAA game studio in charge of one of the biggest MMOs on the market!" is a powerful headline to prospective buyers.

I wonder why XIV is always their target, and not arguably a bigger name like WoW? I browse their forums every now and have not ever seen anyone complaining about DDOSing.