Final Fantasy XI Suffers DDOS Attacks 40
_xeno_ writes "Final Fantasy XI is currently under a DDOS attack from unknown parties. No additional information is really available, but Square-Enix has contacted "[l]aw enforcement authorities in Japan, the United States, and Europe." The attacks started on April 9th and are evidently ongoing, causing server downtime, preventing people from logging in to the game, and causing extra latency. No word has been made on the exact nature of the attacks or any progress on blocking the attacks."
Time to switch to a different network? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Time to switch to a different network? (Score:2)
pay 50$ for connection per month and 12$ per month on top of that just to play a game?
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Aside from "magic"... (Score:1)
Re:Aside from "magic"... (Score:2)
Re:Aside from "magic"... (Score:1)
Re:Aside from "magic"... (Score:2)
It's called "extortion", as in "pay us money and we'll stop DDOSing your server". (Isn't amazing how many questions can be answered with a single word: "money"?
Conspiracy (Score:1, Troll)
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Re:Actually there IS a rumor as to whos causing it (Score:1)
Hear that sound? its your credibility falling out of the window.
Re:Actually there IS a rumor as to whos causing it (Score:1)
Re:Actually there IS a rumor as to whos causing it (Score:2)
The Chinese government has never particularly liked a strong Japan, whether said "government" answers to an emperor or a leader of the Communist party; WW2 certainly didn't help. But the current demonstrations are being used, encouraged, and manipulated by the current government to simultaneously diplomatically threaten Japan (wh
Re:OK, that was a nonstory (Score:1)
Re:OK, that was a nonstory (Score:4, Interesting)
Again? The game has been out for over 2 years in the US (3+ in Japan) and has run smoothly since then (don't forget its also designed for the PS2 so they have a VERY stable system). FFXI isn't Ultima Online where server problems plagued the game after two generations of MMORPGs passed it. FFXI isn't World of Warcraft where server problems can be justified (to an extent) to the 'we're just getting started, give us a chance' argument either.
If you paid attention to the server status on the PlayOnline website, you also would've noticed that some servers were randomly going down also. Non-heavily populated servers going down? Can't be an overload of players. No server patch updates recently? Can't be a lag spike. Some script kiddie decided to try to 'hack' the game? Been there, done that, hasn't crashed a server either and if they did it would've crashed ALL the servers, not just one of them (they would've also had to hack PlayOnline before they could manipulate any important data). This isn't something you can just chalk up to 'hackers getting lucky this one time' so lose the 'FFXI SUX0RZ!' attitude.
Re:OK, that was a nonstory (Score:1)
ddos attack? slashdot it! (Score:1)
Symptoms? (Score:2)
servers are fine... (Score:1, Offtopic)
of much bigger concern to everyone i know in the game is the recent announcement that they are lowering the xp requirements to hit level 75 (max level)
- are people with multiple jobs at 75 getting screwed ?
- there's not enough places for 75's to play as it is. if they make it easier to get to 75, where the hell are all these new people going to go?
it's a great game but the endgame has always