"DDOS" for MONTHS on end with no resolution UNACCEPTABLE

[Bitmoar]

I'm sure YoshiP will waste 15 minutes of the time he has at TGS to tell us nothing can be done. Tangentially, I hope people don't have very high expectations for the LL lol. It's a part one and he has limited time.

[Larirawiel]

What happened over the weekend was most definitely a DDOS but I don't think it was directed at the FFXIV servers.

Interesting is, that other games do not have these huge problems at all. And yes, maybe it a DDoS attack but it also be undersized hardware. And it is bad for customers.


Cheers

[Havenchild]

Wasn't this already verified on reddit that it was an issue with NTT, Hop nodes that Spectrum (least one ISP) was using? Not something that SE can directly fix anyway.

[Hasrat]

And, considering how vocal a few players are about their dislike of how the game currently is, I have zero, absolutely no, doubt that the people behind this are unhappy about some aspect of the game.

This thought occurred to me as well recently. Really wouldn't put it past someone(s) being bitchy about the game and, instead of just not playing, deciding to ruin the experience for everyone.

And, I'll say it. The way this community has devolved to such toxic negativity, kinda brings these consequences on itself. No, I'm not going to elaborate.

[caffe_macchiato]

I feel like if I sarcastically posted about this, people would actually take me seriously. People seriously, legitimately do not realize that Square Enix is the company that lost 70% of its profit last year. This is the company that gutted almost the entire staff of FFXIV to make a console-exclusive DMC clone that flopped. This is the company that decided that having good internet in an internet-only game wasn't important to invest in. This is the company that people are defending.

And, considering how vocal a few players are about their dislike of how the game currently is, I have zero, absolutely no, doubt that the people behind this are unhappy about some aspect of the game. It's gone on too long to be a demo, and only this community is petty enough to keep it going this long.

Remember how you all blamed the Chinese because they were running "bot farms"? Or Filipinos because they were "angry at Visa"? How many people are you going to blame? No other MMO has this problem right now. You can keep coping but it won't change the fact that Square Enix will lose 70% of its profit again this year, and the next, and the next, because this company is bad at its job. Square Enix is a poorly-run company. You don't have to defend them. It's okay, there are people who get paid to do that.

[hynaku]

Good way for a game to go under if they don't fix them. Seems like every other day there is a DDOS attack.

[Raiya]

I swear some people have the temperament of a bomb in here some days.

If anyone is to blame it's the malicious wasters who are attacking the server connection in the first place.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Interesting is, that other games do not have these huge problems at all. And yes, maybe it a DDoS attack but it also be undersized hardware. And it is bad for customers.


Cheers

We don't have undersized hardware. The game runs fine when not ddos'd.

The problem with a DDoS is you don't need slightly more bandwidth, you need massively more than your elevated normal expected load. So say SE built out the DC upgrades with an expectation of say, 1.5x the peak dawntrail launch, because as we saw, queues were pretty good compared to endwalker.

To help mitigate DDoS attacks, you don't need 1.5x, you need much, much higher. And when there's isn't one? You have millions in hardware running, costing even more in electrical costs, because you can't wait to spin them up, that ruins the point.

Also, they do mitigate when it's directed at them, but attack patterns change. The attackers will always be ahead.

[Greyhawk]

Good way for a game to go under if they don't fix them. Seems like every other day there is a DDOS attack.

Well, because it literally is every other day. Sometimes daily.

[Balmung_Griffin]

Thing is, it's not our place as players to solve this issue.

This stuff happens since forever and people have been understanding for a VERY long time, however things took a turn to the worse recently and we're still getting the same "Recovery from XYZ" message from years ago giving the perception that not much is being done to solve it.

Say, current state becomes the new normal then we just have to accept this or too bad?

Nah, this isn't right.