Quote Originally Posted by Titania40 View Post
After wading through this entire thread I have to wonder, just what do people expect Square-Enix to actually do about the DDOS attacks? As far as I know, there's no real way to stop them beyond getting hardware and an ISP that can handle a higher load. And even that doesn't really work, since the attacker can just increase the volume of requests used in the attack.

Does FFXIV suffer from an excessive number of DDOS attacks compared to other MMOs? Why yes, it does. But this isn't because the other companies found some way to prevent DDOS attacks from affecting them. It's because they just aren't being targeted by DDOS attacks as often as FFXIV is. Blizzard-Activision gets hit with DDOS attacks on occasion, which shut down the ability to even log into their games. But it doesn't happen anywhere near as frequently, because something about the FFXIV player base seems to encourage people who preform such attacks.

I don't know, maybe the problem is that players of those other MMOs get jellous of Final Fantasy XIV's success and try to bring the game down? Maybe it's disgruntled players taking their frustrations out on the servers? Maybe it's 4Chan users thinking it's funny? I don't know, and none of the rest of the player base likely does either.
If there was no defense against DDOS *whatsoever* literally every single game service would be taken down and unavailable 24/7. Xbox Live, PSN, Steam, you name it, it would be trashed and taken offline if it were *that* easy.

WoW has been DDOSed, but the difference is, that it was NOT ongoing for months on end. Even while they were embroiled in controversies and the community was absolutely LIVID with them, WoW servers were not being taken down every single night, at the same time, for hours on end, every single day, for months. While everyone seems to be claiming that Square Enix "Can't do anything", or that they are "Defenseless" against such attacks, why is it that every other MMO has been able to handle these problems and minimize their disruptions? I'm no engineer, but SE doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt when this has been ongoing for a prolonged period of time and there has been minimal communication about what is being done to resolve this issue, if a resolution is even possible in the first place... Which you know they could literally make a post about on the lodestone informing us about what is going on, like any other company would in their position.

I guarantee you nobody is jealous of FFXIV, especially after Dawntrails mixed reception. I'm sure the competition is actually delighted with the turn of events, no DDOS is required when SE launches an expansion that doesn't meet expectations and drives a portion of the community away and into other games.