why does this game get DDoS so much?

[gllt]

It's just bad servers, SE lying like Elon Musk

Chloe

Real talk, I believe Elon was coping and I believe Square's servers suck but why make a PR lie and say it's DDoS

Please explain the logic behind it in Square's case

[Avoidy]

Real talk, I believe Elon was coping and I believe Square's servers suck but why make a PR lie and say it's DDoS

Please explain the logic behind it in Square's case

If a company says nothing when their servers blow up, it looks bad. If they say it's their own infrastructure being lousy then it looks bad when it continues to have issues because yeah, they're being honest, but on the other hand "why aren't they fixing it". But if they blame it on some mysterious third party (the ddosers) then most people will just assume there's nothing that can be done except wait for the angry nerd to stop hitting the ddos button because most people don't know enough beyond that to demand further action (myself included). From just a "humans love lying to escape personal responsibility" standpoint, it's a great scapegoat for if you have lousy infrastructure but don't want to take responsibility for it, and there's no way for skeptics to prove that they're not being ddosed so we just have to take their word for it.

I could honestly swing either way on this, but I saw your post and just felt like expanding my thoughts on it a little since imo there are plenty of reasons for a corporation to lie about its quality to consumers. At the moment I don't personally believe Square are lying about malicious actors. All I know about ddos mitigation is it's a service offered by organizations like cloudflare, so I do wonder if we have anything of that sort happening in this game or if they've just taken all of XIV's profits and funneled it into gacha slop instead.