"DDOS" for MONTHS on end with no resolution UNACCEPTABLE

[BabyYoda]

It's not DDoS attacks. It's the amount of "speak with WuK Lamat" requests to servers from players doing the MSQ.

OMG yes so accurate

[Infindox]

I've been taking a break, only playing a day a week to keep up on tomes and the various weekly things. I knew it was bad but today showed me how bad it actually is.
Of all the content I ran, almost every instance I started to lag at one point. At first I thought "okay maybe it's my end?" but a run of Tender Valley showed that the other DPS and the healer were also having lag issues. Had a Normal Raid roulette and a Trial Roulette go the same way (had the game absolutely go crazy because it froze right before the cs bit in the final DT fight, even funner cs when glitched). I went to a few hub areas for custom delivery turn-ins and each time they took longer then normal to load. It didn't disconnect me yet but it's extremely frustrating when the lag makes you play worse then normal.

[Sacae]

Is this only an NA thing? I'm on Cerberus and haven't experienced any of these attacks, not since the really bad one that took out Chaos and Light for an afternoon a few months back.

[Oizen]

[Balmung_Griffin]

Trying to do anything on NA right now is absolutely impossible. It takes me 15 seconds just to get into my own damn house. Imagine if you're trying to run PoTD or literally any player content.

And of course, Yoshi P and Square Enix are glad to take our monthly sub fees anyway. Embarassing.

Too true, I have 2 solo HoH slots at 70th floor, that I basically cannot enter because of these issues.

[Fawkes]

"We will have solutions for DDOS along with Job identity changes and additional hats for Viera and Hrothgar in 8.0. Please look forward to them."

No no, they'd never say "we will have", they know it'll eventually be 8.0 and that would come due. It would be more like "We're thinking about starting to look into".

[Avoidy]

I felt this last night too. I barely log in nowadays, just to do expert/trial/normalraid roulettes. But I logged in last night, and once again people were just running in place and then "catching up" all at once. I was healing, so I didn't have a crazy rotation or anything, and I didn't want to make my group wait for another healer, so I put up with it. But once we got out, I immediately logged out and watched a movie instead. Then I got into bed at a reasonable hour, went to sleep, and woke up feeling refreshed and happy.

It is very dangerous for Square, from a monetary standpoint, to have a game with so many content lulls and then have connectivity issues on top of it. Because when people who already had nothing to do anyway, but were still online idling or whatever, get booted... they tend to think "oh. well, what was I doing anyway?" and they stay offline lol. That's been my case at least. I log in, wonder why I bothered, and then I watch my ping spike to like 200 so I just log off.

[Larirawiel]

Do not link to Discord because Discord invalidates the links regulary.



Cheers

[Jojoya]

It is VERY likely, that it is not a DDOS attack. It is more likely, that SQEX's network equipment is vastly undersized and cannot handle the normal workload.


Cheers

What happened over the weekend was most definitely a DDOS but I don't think it was directed at the FFXIV servers. If it had been an issue with the game servers (whether DDOS or hardware/software failure), everyone in my party doing a story run of Eden for first timers would have been getting disconnected instead of just half the party (and consistently the same half). I never got disconnected or experienced any latency issues myself yet others were getting booted frequently.

If it's not the SE servers being specifically targeted, they can't do anything other than notify the companies that operate the internet infrastructure that SE customers are being affected.

[PassinLay]

+ the ones from the 19th, 20th,22nd and the 23rd as well now

good countermeasures

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the most hilarious thing is that some people still manage to defend this, while absolutely any other game doesn't have this problem ANYWHERE near the extent FFXIV has.

But keep buying em mog station purchases guys, clearly they are investing in the game