why does this game get DDoS so much?

[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.

[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.

[CKNovel]

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

You'd be really surprised by the amount of energy/resources people can spend for whatever reason.
We got a billboard situation, I wouldn't be surprised if someone would spend money to DDOS a server because they're annoyed with whatever online services.