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Stormblood Launch Issues Blamed on Ongoing DDoS Attack - Final Fantasy XIV - MMORPG.com
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Stormblood Launch Issues Blamed on Ongoing DDoS Attack - Final Fantasy XIV - MMORPG.com
Final Fantasy XIV News - According to a new post on the Final Fantasy XIV site, it appears that the rocky launch of Stormblood came as a result of a third party DDoS attacks that are still underway. The team has been trying to get on top of the attack, but the methods have been changing at nearly every moment.
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This just reads the easy scapegoat PR use all the time to push blame off themselves because they wasn't ready for the success of their launch...
blame DDoS for your crappy servers that cant handle players at expansion day
its getting more and more popular
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They're making a criminal charge. There's real world consequences for something like this.
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We have confirmed that since Jun. 16th, we have been experiencing DDoS attacks* from an anonymous third-party targeting the FINAL FANTASY XIV game servers on the NA data center.
On the link in the article.
Some are better than others. FFXIV is one of the more horribly memorable ones for me.
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
More over, I'm baffled by how badly EU servers are handled. Where JP and US have tons of servers, the EU only has 7 or old ones (all from the original FF14 launch I must add), and with the early access only 1 was added. Needless to say ALL servers were congested within an hour of the start of EA and a 2nd server was added 3 days later, which is already congested as well. EU players need to start their logon AT LEAST 1 hour ahead during evenings and even then you're lucky to be able to play an hour later.
One of my friends logged on for her husband at 8pm and had a queue of over 2500, which still wasn't cleared 2 hours later...
Corrections here, no Devs do not know how many copies were sold through pre-orders in a strictest sent. They sell the units to stories, stores sell the unites and it relies on people claiming the pre-order code. Best you can do is gauge how many people are interested and also understand that not everyone plays all at the same time. Point being, its bloody hard to work out and if it was easy to sort there would never be an issue, for FF, for WoW etc.
Servers are used where needed, EU servers came out later on and many still play on US servers, myself included.
Queues are an issue, but hey if you're not attached to anything you could of switched to Omega and enjoyed the Stormblood content with no queue time at all!
As for your friend and Mrs,if they literally don't interact with the FC they can move their characters for FREE to Omega.
Just pains me because people just make it harder for themselves!
The overload at launch of a new expansion is not unexpected and they know in a month or less the rush will abate and normal loads will return except on a few over crowded servers.
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Been kinda debating on giving it another try for the 4th time lol.
You do realize that people have to enter a code for the early access which means they would know how many people did that unless everyone waited for early access to begin to enter their code. That probably happened for some but they knew how many people were going to be ready to play in advance.
Good luck catching whoever is responsible if they aren't completely retarded.