Quote Originally Posted by Larirawiel View Post
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.


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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.