We need more transparency about these "DDoS attacks"

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

There is a bad node, but unrelated to the ddos attacks. And there’s not much they can say. What more information are you expecting? People already seem to know very little about internet routing in general, as you’ll see people say they shouldn’t have to pay for a VPN because SE has bad servers, which isn’t what VPNs do or what the issue is.

It’s not like this is an internal bug or server problem. This is an outside threat targeting either XIV specifically or the physical DC where the servers are located.


The only way to prevent a ddos attack is to have massively more bandwidth and resources available than you need for day to day usage for the service itself. Microsoft, Sony, Amazon, other retailers, etc, are all susceptible to ddos attacks, and have faced them in the past. Just look at Amazon when the ps5 launched. Carts broke, pages didn’t load.

[Jeeqbit]

There is a bad node, but unrelated to the ddos attacks.

I agree that there is a bad node generally (even when everything is fine I can see packet loss with a tracert). Not to mention how VPNs significantly cut my ping showing the bad route it takes without one.

But in addition to that there are sometimes DDoS or bandwidth throttling (or rate limits) on those nodes in addition. Sometimes it could be the countermeasure to those attacks that can work too well and affect connections.

A lot of other services use cloud servers which help with shrugging off such attacks, something that SE doesn't because of the speed benefit of physical machines for games, but maybe they should consider them. The Cloud DC test went fine after all.

The only other solution I can think of is for them to move the server to another location since I doubt this attack is actually aimed at SE. I don't see why it even would be.