DDOS attack

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I noticed just as I logged in that there is a little icon next to my battle.net avitar stating that WoW is suffering from a DDOS attack. Has anyone has any issues with logging on or playing?

Personally, I was unable to play beta because of huge world/home ms, and I wondered if that was part of the problem.

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same thing here ~ so it’s not just you.

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Sylvanas took revenge for delaying Her plans.

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I’m experiencing the same as you are Kneeshooter. For good measure I’ve tried the Battle.Net Beta App also which appears to be experiencing the same problem.

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I do not ever understand why people try to DDoS an old game.

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Who would even DDoS late 8.3, are people even left playing at this point xD

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They DDoS the beta so that blizzard will be unable to continue development until they invite those who purchased Shadowlands. They have the right to protest - they live in a democratic country.

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Well that’s childish. I hope they get a visit from the law instead.

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It’s most likely legal in their country.

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Sylvanas needs a good spanking

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They’ve gone after DDoS attackers before and they’ve been charged. So not always.

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It’s prolly some loser that’s upset Blizzard is releasing SL later than expected.

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Depends on the country. In some, DDoS attack is considered a legal form of democratic protest

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So then what’s to prevent them from DDOSing 24/7?
You can’t fix DDOS if all they’re doing is spamming data at the server

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We’ll see, but regardless, it’s pretty ridiculous. It won’t have any affect either. It’s just a waste of everyone’s time.

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It does seem an awfully coincidental timeframe. On the whole, I’d rather they do it now than at launch but I guess they’ll probably do that regardless.

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Quite nothing. Get better firewall, get better servers. There a games that keep getting DDoSed all the time and are just getting a little bit laggy because of that.

And of random people’s computer resources, if it’s done with the help of computer viruses - but in this case it’s not quite legal.

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They need to catch this person and smash the hell outta their hands with a hammer until it’s a bloody mess. That will make them think twice next time.

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Not to mention go owww a lot.

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but the code will still be running ad he’ll be stunned and unable to turn it off