Final Fantasy XI Suffers DDOS Attacks 40

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 15, 2005 @05:37PM from the save-the-tarutaru! dept.

_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."

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Time to switch to a different network? (Score:2, Interesting)

by Punboy ( 737239 ) writes:

It seems that a large portion of the popular online games are getting their servers mutilated. is it time for them to switch to a different method of networking? perhaps create their own "internet" to "dial" into?
- Re:Time to switch to a different network? (Score:2)
  
  by gl4ss ( 559668 ) writes:
  
  ...with what money?
  
  pay 50$ for connection per month and 12$ per month on top of that just to play a game?
- Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
  
  by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:
  
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Aside from "magic"... (Score:1)

by Short Circuit ( 52384 ) * writes:

...why would anyone want to do this? I don't recall hearing about controversial elements.
- Re:Aside from "magic"... (Score:2)
  
  by bersl2 ( 689221 ) writes:
  
  Somebody who doesn't particularily care about the quality of the game. A successful community is always more fun to disrupt than a troubled one. Or so their values are.
  - - Re:Aside from "magic"... (Score:1)
      
      by bersl2 ( 689221 ) writes:
      
      Disclaimer: IANAMMORPGer, so I wouldn't know better.
- Re:Aside from "magic"... (Score:2)
  
  by El ( 94934 ) writes:
  
  why would anyone want to do this?
  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)

by superpulpsicle ( 533373 ) writes:

Since FFXI servers are running top notch compared to the WoW servers to begin with. The competitors must be sabotaging the servers. Yeah that's it.
Re: (Score:2)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:

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- - Re:Actually there IS a rumor as to whos causing it (Score:1)
    
    by XellDx ( 737289 ) writes:
    
    EQ2.... far superior game(s)
    .
    
    Hear that sound? its your credibility falling out of the window.
- Re:Actually there IS a rumor as to whos causing it (Score:1)
  
  by phloydphreak ( 691922 ) writes:
  
  yup. Its China. the WHOLE frickin country. Not dissidents in that country, who are quite irritated at Japan, so irritated that they have been protesting in the streets. But, you're right, its defenitely the CHINA! be afraid! its CHINA!
  - Re:Actually there IS a rumor as to whos causing it (Score:2)
    
    by Mandoric ( 55703 ) writes:
    
    "Dissidents", which explains why on-duty police officers are coordinating the demonstrations to the point of regulating the number of stones thrown to a certain amount per person?
    
    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)
      
      by XellDx ( 737289 ) writes:
      
      I found it helpful. Also, other people started the blackmailing SE spin off, not the artcle. My post was in response to saying SE used port 25 to run the game off of - not only was it stupid to say that, but that wasn't what the article they linked to said.
- Re:OK, that was a nonstory (Score:4, Interesting)
  
  by MMaestro ( 585010 ) writes: on Friday April 15, 2005 @08:19PM (#12251597)
  
  How do you know that they didn't just break their network infrastructure yet again?
  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)
    
    by meehray ( 715859 ) writes:
    
    From reading the FFXI forums, all the dDOS/hacks threads are still just speculation and rumors. Sorry if I missed something, but has SE revealed anything else about the server instabilities?
ddos attack? slashdot it! (Score:1)

by tasinet ( 747465 ) writes:

oh, it was undergoing a DDOS attack, so we helped by slashdotting it? smart.
Symptoms? (Score:2)

by Guppy06 ( 410832 ) * writes:

Is this related to the problems with auction houses and the /search function I've been experiencing on Fairy today?
servers are fine... (Score:1, Offtopic)

by joe094287523459087 ( 564414 ) writes:

i've been playing almost 8+ hours every day for a year and i haven't noticed any new problems from the past week.

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

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Time to switch to a different network? (Score:2, Interesting)

Re:Time to switch to a different network? (Score:2)

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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)

Conspiracy (Score:1, Troll)

Re: (Score:2)

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:1)

Re:Actually there IS a rumor as to whos causing it (Score:2)

Re:OK, that was a nonstory (Score:1)

Re:OK, that was a nonstory (Score:4, Interesting)

Re:OK, that was a nonstory (Score:1)

ddos attack? slashdot it! (Score:1)

Symptoms? (Score:2)

servers are fine... (Score:1, Offtopic)

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