"DDOS" for MONTHS on end with no resolution UNACCEPTABLE

[Mesarthim]

2-3 DDoS in the last 10 minutes on primal, last one managed to boot me out.

[Zelda206]

Got my arse handed to me in an AAC Trial at least six times; DDOS made it unbeatable. If it wasn't in the drink, or it wasn't Wuk Lamat breaking the cyberware at Square Enix to steal the DPS' LB3, then I couldn't tell you what made it occur.
All I know is that I took a long breath, got off the game, and turned around to go play Palworld or V Rising.

[TemporalFruitsAndVeggies]

FFXIV is the only online service I use where it's a coin-flip as to whether I'll be able to stay connected for a whole hour. We've had to abandon several raid nights over the past month because too many of us are just constantly disconnecting.

[hynaku]

So is it DDOS attacks again today when they going to end that's causing lag spikes and disconnects.

[Themarvin]

Every night for the past ~2 weeks at around 10pm PST and every other day before that going back months, the servers have become unplayably laggy and repeatedly kick players off. We have been told all this time it is "DDOS attacks" to blame and that SE is "looking into a solution. Why have they not found one yet? How long can we accept "looking for a solution" on a paid subscription game before refunds are warranted for failure to provide service?

We at least need some sort of update more frequently. Let us know what you are doing to combat this. I also play WOW and ESO and no other online game seems to have this problem. Only SE.

Please do better. Let us know via community outreach that you are at least working on a solution!

It is very hard to do anything about DDoS attacks.

[CuteBucket]

I keep seeing people debate if it's the actual FFXIV servers getting DDOS'd or this NTT node people keep mentioning. How do we determine what is causing it? Because I remember I time I had to use a VPN to get around the problem node and there was ZERO world from SE in the Lodestone about it. But now we're getting a Lodestone post almost every day about DDOS attacks.

[AlienDiplomat]

Cancelled both my subs today after being a constant subscriber for years. The game has declined beyond the point I can justify paying them for it. The quality of the Dawntrail expansion story and content was a big drop, but not being able to even play for weeks to months because of constant network failures while white knights fervently defend their inability to address the issue or find a remedy through investment in new server infrastructure took it over the edge.

Based on feedback from support tickets and the lack of a critical focus on this issue over the past 2+ months I have no confidence SE intends to invest any money in making this better. So long as they have people who make excuses why it is acceptable to collect monthly fees for a service they do not invest what is necessary to maintain, there is no incentive in the boardroom to spend one cent on actually solving this problem.

If people buy hamburgers at full price whether or not you include a patty, and rabidly defend patty-lacking burgers, why would you bother to spend money on beef?

This is no longer a product I can justify supporting financially. Hopefully that will change as more people arrive at the same conclusion.

Side note: End-stage western capitalist value extraction is NOT a model that eastern markets should aspire to.

[PassinLay]

Cancelled both my subs today after being a constant subscriber for years. The game has declined beyond the point I can justify paying them for it. The quality of the Dawntrail expansion story and content was a big drop, but not being able to even play for weeks to months because of constant network failures while white knights fervently defend their inability to address the issue or find a remedy through investment in new server infrastructure took it over the edge.

Based on feedback from support tickets and the lack of a critical focus on this issue over the past 2+ months I have no confidence SE intends to invest any money in making this better. So long as they have people who make excuses why it is acceptable to collect monthly fees for a service they do not invest what is necessary to maintain, there is no incentive in the boardroom to spend one cent on actually solving this problem.

If people buy hamburgers at full price whether or not you include a patty, and rabidly defend patty-lacking burgers, why would you bother to spend money on beef?

This is no longer a product I can justify supporting financially. Hopefully that will change as more people arrive at the same conclusion.

Side note: End-stage western capitalist value extraction is NOT a model that eastern markets should aspire to.

Exactly what I said a few days ago tbh, this game's community will be the downfall of FFXIV, not SE. Bunch of "yes men" is what this community is.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Here's two articles of interest on the topic.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/final-fantasy-xiv/ddos-attacks

https://gamerant.com/final-fantasy-1...eptember-2024/

And a live website showing the scale of the cyberattacks.

https://horizon.netscout.com/?mapPos...41~-27.62~1.00