Imagine being a 34 year old company making billions a year and not being able to stop DDOS attacks.
If there are any real employees left at blizzard and all responses aren’t ChatGPT generated - here’s some advice, invest in a WAF
Sincerely, someone tired of missing raid nights on a game they pay to play 2 nights a week and can’t even do that.
Maybe the company had/has it coming to them considering all the unfavorable decisions they’ve made; continue to make…
I don’t know; just a thought.
Its the patch I think man.
No security devices are going to protect you from a large-scale botnet engaging in this activity. I don’t care what you assume it’s impossible if they get a wide scale botnet to connect the server at the same time. The battle.net servers are going to go offline and there’s nothing you can do about it. Amazon goes offline from time to time because the same thing and they’re much larger company it’s the nature of the game this isn’t some kid in his parents basement running some scripts anymore, it’s large-scale botnets for rent on the dark web is whats doing these kinds of things.
Protection strategies rely on the connection stall be coming from a general region distributed button at a tax allowed me to launch an attack on your servers from multiple different regions all across the country using infected or compromised IOT devices no company can actually defend against it, what they have to do is simply take the servers offline until the connection attempts stop.
nobody at blizzard cares, just be prepared to find out everything you have disappears because of “spaghetti code” like they had like a thousand years to fix this code and straighten it out
This is not true.
You can add a WAF that only allows in IPs associated with customer that have a long history of using your service. This is easy since 99% of real WoW players connect from 1 or 2 IPs consistently.
All the new bot net IPs hitting your server for the first time can be blocked, with some false positive for new customers, sure, but it protects the game for most.
So Wafectus, you think violence is justified when someone does you wrong without violence? maybe if you are so upset with Blizz you should use your wallet and hurt them appropately by stop playing
Did you know that after the crash of the great depression, bank robbers were lauded as heroes for sticking it to the banks that helped usher in the fiasco by losing people’s money?
And who wants to end up as collateral damage?
Wafectus, that is because people did not understand what caused the Depression (people buying stock on margins) and that robbers were stealing the publics money. Just because a bunch of idiots cheer something it is still wrong and illegal
Depends really.
Are they doing this out of sheer cyberterrorism?
Or have they provided reasons for their grievances and are giving demands that will get them to back off?
If it’s the former, then ok. They’re just hurting people for no reason.
If it’s the latter, I’m sure, like those banks from the depression era, they had it coming to them considering how they’ve handled things such as customer service. Namely for me…
The dissolvement of TBC and Wrath without a vanilla clone to show for it (My Pre-Cataclysmic progression that was eroded over with this new classic-progression client).
Yeah, because choosing to progress Wrath into Cata is deserving of a DDOS attack? Blizzard is a business, Classic wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t capable of making money.
Cataclysm was the profitable choice, you got your two years to play Wrath. Move on or play private servers.
There is so much historical context missing from this statement that its effectively an incorrect statement.
No.
The media/papers pushed certain people as “modern day robin hoods” only to back track. Until history romanticized these people again.
Robbing small, local, town banks was not “sticking it to the banks” it was actively hurting an already poor rural/semi-urban population. Often times those banks being robbed HAD NO MONEY TO TAKE, either due to people withdrawing due to panic or being robbed already. Those “heroes” would then rob the bank patrons for pocket money and valuables.
As well the majority of those you claim were “lauded as heroes” were actually horrid people who did horrid things, ANY support for them went down quickly.
You’ve watched too many movies.
This dude probably gets it.
Thats the worst possible way to mitigate this imaginable, most people are not on static IP’s also most botnets are compromised IOT devices spread across the globe, its not nearly as simple as you think it is, especially not for a company this big. I gurantee you plenty connect via cellular or public wifi, via college, apartment, hotels, ect. Small company sure, big company oh heck no
But vanilla got to keep an era? Your entire tone stinks of authoritarianism as if you have a say in what kind of server should exist or shouldn’t.
Nothing of what I said was incorrect. All you did was provide more details that I purposely left out because it goes to my point.
Maybe they had it coming to them.
Your attitude also suggests to me that you could be building up anti-karma points of your own.
Yes, Vanilla got to stay because Classic Era was promised to stay in patch 1.12 forever while “Classic” forks off into a PTE (progress through expansions) project.
You got to play Wrath for two years and if you missed the boat, sorry friend. Everyone gets to play their favorite expansion again.
I don’t have any say in what patch states they maintain, that’s up to Blizzard and Blizzard wants to keep the expansions going. Had they left WoTLK live, it would have segregated the community, though Wrath would have eventually died because you run out of content. That’s why Cata is going to MoP.
What community?
You’ve got a lot to learn about this topic.
I simplifed it for the sake of a WoW post but this is exactly the sort of thing large companies do. They heavily invest in tech that can determine bot vs real IP traffic with thousands of heuristics that dynamically recalculate as traffic patterns shift. Yes, its more complicated than assuming everyones on a few static IPs, but thats the most basic form.
FYI every well known service is under constant threat. If any web service hosted by a trillion dollar company could be held hostage at any time by some random hacker group, indefinitly, don’t you think you’d see it constantly? Blizzard is the only major company I interact with that still has this problem in 2025.
Why havent the people attacking blizzard directed their “iot botnet” against Amazon or Netflix? Those services only run because of the good graces of the hackers? Its a laughable position to take. No, those companies just arent vulnerable. They go after Blizzard multiple times a week because it works.
To stick it to that piece of fecal matter warrior just above that defended the small-town banks who did nothing wrong…
Maybe they had it coming to them (Blizz).
No those companies run because they’re so decentralized and their operation Blizzard has the unfortunate circumstance of being both large enough to be worth it but not large enough where they redirect the traffic to totally different servers operating in The same region. From what we can tell from Blizzard there are authentication servers appear to be centrally located per region they don’t appear to have multiple different locations that have authentication servers they’re not decentralized like Amazon is if somebody assaults Amazons servers in Seattle Amazon can send all the traffic to their server farm in Portland Blizzard does not have that option, no if they ever migrate about net accounts to Microsoft accounts and authenticate through Microsoft as your servers this problem goes away. But what’s actually getting taken offline every time is it the game servers at large it’s the authentication servers in an entire region.