Booted from Primal: Exodus now cannot connect to Primal 1/5/25

[Sorjal]

Booted mid-craft and haven't been able to get to Character selection with errror message of Cannot Connect to Primal Server (Primal Exodus).

This yet another failure of ddos mitigation?

[Kisa34]

Yep. Every single NA Data Center is down right now. No telling if it's a DDoS yet, but it most likely is given that this is the time a lot of people play on Sunday nights.

[Rukhsana]

got 2002 as well. Aether - Midgardsormr NA ... tried going back in game 3 times to no avail

[Krojack]

https://is.xivup.com/

Yeah, entire NA dataceter is down

[Achilios]

Has to be a ddos attack. I am on Aether data center with the same happening, also the loadstone has started to load very slowly for a couple mins and then just started to give a message saying the site has encountered a technical error.

[AbyssalCrisis]

Yep, definitely a DDoS. Was in the middle of FRU when the servers went down. Now I'm just staring at the server page waiting for them to come back up so I can keep progging.

[Tyssyn]

Same for Brynhildr on Crystal, got dc'd, can't recoonect, get a lobby error.

[Basteala]

This is really inexcusable, and the fact that it's isolated to the NA servers, at least to me, speaks of a complete failure on the IT department in that region. Find some better people or better policies, please. Or both.

[Sharasheeva]

Was on Crystal/ Mateus with a character and in the middle of a funeral for a fellow guild member. One of the other pcs was about to do a speech and suddenly Boom!

[AestheticDegen]

The scope seems too vast and lingering to be a DDOS in my opinion. Unless we're entering a new phase of cyber warfare, I think something happened to the physical data center building housing NA's servers. Guess we'll find out when Square Enix sends out an update. Hopefully it's just a freak accident and they get everything up and running ASAP and don't have to worry about future issues like this.

If they do say it was a DDOS and give us the same generic response, I'm probably going to suspend my sub because that means Square is unable/unwilling to keep the game stable and we shouldn't be paying for unreliable services. Why bother paying for a game that can be taken down on a literal continental scale at a moment's notice by any random fucker with some programming knowhow? But we'll cross that bridge only if we come to it.