Either do something about the DDoS problem or shut it down til you can...

[TwiceDamned]

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Seriously.

It's been averaging about once an hour since Savage started. Whoever is doing this knows damn well what they are doing.

[Mercury_Grey]

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Seriously.

It's been averaging about once an hour since Savage started. Whoever is doing this knows damn well what they are doing.

watch it be a group of people who got permanent hardware banned from ffxiv when DSR came out because they did a world first race with cheats enabled. So in response they are tryign to punish others for their own greed

[Krojack]

The game doesn't even have cheat detection so they couldn't even hardware ban someone if they wanted to. Also they aren't hard to get around.

[TwiceDamned]

watch it be a group of people who got permanent hardware banned from ffxiv when DSR came out because they did a world first race with cheats enabled. So in response they are tryign to punish others for their own greed

Can't see that the case for another reason than what Korjack said.

This has been going on several months now. But today, I think the mask came down. It's a malevolent actor trying to end it.

[0blivion]

I mean, the fervent frequency of the DDOS strongly indicates that whoever is doing it has a lot of resources. Like... industry rivals. Or very very bored people.

I do kinda doubt it's some bored person armed with [program name censored to not encourage more memes] ...the cannon, though. At least I'd hope SE's NA servers can handle that much.

[SicariusSeven]

SE doesn't care! Look what happened at the last DDOS attack. They did nothing until the instigators got bored. SE is going to do NOTHING about the DDOS attacks because they don't care. They never have cared and I doubt they are going to care anytime soon.

[Jeeqbit]

The fact the attacker was able to "change attack pattern" for Savage release shows they probably don't have any useful "countermeasures" and just wait until the attacker gets bored.

[jesseleewelch]

SE doesn't care! Look what happened at the last DDOS attack. They did nothing until the instigators got bored. SE is going to do NOTHING about the DDOS attacks because they don't care. They never have cared and I doubt they are going to care anytime soon.

Why would they not care? If FFXIV goes down, there's a strong possibility SE as a company goes down too. NA is not the game's only market, but it's a big one. I am frequently hearing people say they are canceling their subs because they believe the game to be unplayable with all the DDoS that happens and it seems to only be getting worse as time goes on. For them to not care... That's like saying they don't care if their whole company goes south.

[Aidorouge]

There's a strong possibility they don't even know a DDoS is happening because they shirked so much of their NA division recently. It's even possible this is happening BECAUSE they fired most of their staff with the intention of replacing them with AI, because even putting aside an untold number of disgruntled employees out there right now with a vendetta, it could be an anti-AI group wanting to "punish" Square-Enix for their decision and show them why they need real life people on-hand to handle a crisis.

And even if Square-Enix became aware... well, this is the same company that when faced with a growing downturn of active players on FF11 they just opted to make everything doable with NPCs and they didn't care if the game brought in tons of money anymore. It might sound crazy that Square-Enix would seemingly not care if FF14 craters in subscriber numbers until it hits the barely 6-digits mark, but it's literally not the first time they've done it and that game is running to this day.

How that move works out for the overall company, I can't say for sure, given they've already expressed downsizing (the NA division) and "refocusing efforts" (remakes/remasters over new IPs) so its entirely possible Square-Enix already KNOWS they're going into the red, and they're already adjusting their budget and staff ahead of time. Of course, it would have made more sense to take action BEFORE they ran their ship into the rocks, but Square-Enix has been playing the "dance on the knife's edge of complete capsizing" for decades now, going as far back as the original Final Fantasy 1.

This is a company that just can't stop its self from playing dangerously, and given every other time its worked out for them I can't help but wonder how the crazy bastards are going to pull it off again or if this is the last time they'll be playing with fire before another company swallows them up... assuming that's not their plan all along. (They ARE buddies with Tencent right now with the mobile version.)

[Doki]

The Information > Status forum posts are just a comedic daily diary of problems at this point.