why does this game get DDoS so much?

[TDawnstar]

I wonder why XIV is always their target, and not arguably a bigger name like WoW?

Blizzard's network and architecture is miles ahead for SE's. I don't particularly like Blizzard, but from a pure technical standpoint, they are miles ahead of Square Enix.

[FuwafuwaMii]

Happens to Blizzard as well:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wo...attack/1797955

Or to GW2:
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topi...g-ddosd-again/

Or to ESO:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.co...l-platforms/p3

I don't think there's a need to go on. Everything gets DDOS'd, not online MMORPGs. Check out this post by Cloudflare alone:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-thr...rt-for-2024-q2

[Rekh]

Happens to Blizzard as well:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wo...attack/1797955

Or to GW2:
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topi...g-ddosd-again/

Or to ESO:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.co...l-platforms/p3

I don't think there's a need to go on. Everything gets DDOS'd, not online MMORPGs. Check out this post by Cloudflare alone:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-thr...rt-for-2024-q2

Gw2? From 2018? That's 6 years ago.
Comparing Gw2 servers, databases, tools, architecture, and network routes to xiv's is like comparing a Shark to a small fish.

[Sensui]

Would removing free accounts solve the issue?

[YouMayNot]

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

Chloe

[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

[Basteala]

Blizzard's network and architecture is miles ahead for SE's. I don't particularly like Blizzard, but from a pure technical standpoint, they are miles ahead of Square Enix.

Honestly I remember back in MoP WoW got targetted pretty badly for no small amount of time. I always figured the DDOS efforts we see often now were a side effect of 14's growing popularity. This wasn't nearly as common during the early WoW migration.

[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.

[FuwafuwaMii]

Gw2? From 2018? That's 6 years ago.
Comparing Gw2 servers, databases, tools, architecture, and network routes to xiv's is like comparing a Shark to a small fish.

I could have searched for newer cases, but seriously.. you could do it yourself. It doesn't influence my point one bit.

[Rekh]

I could have searched for newer cases, but seriously.. you could do it yourself. It doesn't influence my point one bit.

Take responsibility for your claims, you're the one trying to claim that Gw2 has these issues haha. As I explained, it literally is the one mmo that has virtually no ddos issues, officially.