Haven’t been looking this up much is this Riot Games, Jeff K., or what? Any details released anyone know of?
Mr. Putin as always
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Blizzard itself. Bet you never saw that one coming.
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The longer it goes on, the less I am convinced it is a ddos. That isnt cheap to keep running for so long, who is footing the bill to stop people from playing a video game? There is a reason ddos attacks usually only last a couple hours.
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Presumably someone who’s angry at the changes and feel like their complaints are being ignored by Blizzard. However given the degree, and frequency of Blizzard’s missteps as of late, that hardly narrows down the list of possible suspects.
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Yeah I can believe it initially was that, but issues like the the account scrubbing in console, hectic watchpoint pack item distribution, and as you pointed out- the sheer duration of this issue makes me think it’s more than that.
The only thing I find strange is the fact that the beta wasn’t this much of a disaster (in terms of content not carrying over)
I think it has something to do with the beta being a separate entity and OW2 literally replacing OW1. That’s definitely something on their end.
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Some squads of lizards.
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Maybe it was someone so addicted to OW1, they needed to destroy the game at any cost to stop themselves from playing
No one. It was a lie to avoid taking responsibility for their servers not being ready. In the early morning, and I’m talking 4 am CST, the servers were just fine. But now that it’s the time where traffic is always high, the servers are once again dog crap. That’s not a DDoS attack, that’s not having your servers prepared for the influx of players after going Free-2-Play.
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Launching a DD… Uh. Work. I was at work.
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But actually. Work.
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if it really is stioll beind ddos’d its the longest one in history and there should be a report about it somewhere. Its been more than 24 hour the last record was 14 hours.
I was able to play on Xbox earlier today but I’m 100% locked out now it seems like. Main screen just says 2000 players in front of me and never decreases. This is absolutely wretched
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probably no one. Their excuse for last night was a second attack, and so far no excuses was giver for today
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I’m frankly not convinced that there was a DDoS. Not saying I have low trust in Blizzard, but the longer this issue persists, the more I’m inclined to think that Blizzard just did a shoddy job stress testing & someone there is counting their lucky stars that the execs can’t really tell the difference between servers struggling to handle player volume and an actual DDoS attack.
I’d maybe believe that there was an initial DDoS, but repeated attacks persisting that long? Gonna need to see some receipts to believe that.
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Unfortunately persistent multiple DDoS attacks are very common in the security space. Kotaku just posted an update that there was a second wave. The source was Aaron Keller’s Twitter.
The hamburgler did it
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What’s more believable, a DDOS or blizzard screwed up (again) and didn’t have the servers ready?
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The DDOS is the players trying to play a game that doesn’t have the capacity for them because Blizzard is a cheap public company that doesn’t give a darn about quality.
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Random internet dudes from the ages of 15-28 that have fun by ruining it for everyone? Thought it was obvious. It’s always like that.