What’s with blizzard getting ‘ddosed’ every major patch? Fully convinced they see a bunch of players logging on for new seas launch and their crap servers can’t handle it so they blame ddos, like clockwork every season, indie game launches like fellowship do a better job than blizzard these days
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FFXIV players looking at yall like ‘First time?’
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The better question is why do people even DDoS in the first place? They get nothing good from it, and it’s a federal crime. They risk jail time just to troll >.>
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They aren’t.
Huge swaths of the internet are getting DDOSed. Depending on how sites deliver content, a whole lot of places are crippled.
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Indie game developers don’t have millions of people trying to log on to their servers at a time, or anyone who cares what happens to their game enough to DDOS it.
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What is a DDos attack? And how are people doing it? Is it something to get back at them for something?
If you mass permaban hundreds or thousands of people, there is bound to be a few vengeful psychopaths mixed into that population. At best they are scoflaws who do not feel bound by any rules set by the devs. Retribution is almost inevitable, and what can “they” do a powerful monolith like “the game” other than some anonymous Ddos attaack?
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No one has to worry about a game with a couple hundred players crashing their servers trying to log in.
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This isn’t a major patch.
And this:
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A hacker controls zombie computers they’ve hacked and they all repeatedly ping the servers until they can’t function.
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Certifiable boomer take.
Major cyberattacks are not kids screwing around. Someone is dumping a lot of (costly to assemble) resources to do this and someone is getting ransomed right now to make it stop. It’s not a lil goof, this stuff is robbery and extortion and organized crime.
Crap like stealing Discord logins is the work of pranksters. Anything with a real impact has a very real money motive.
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I’m not very tech savvy, but to my understanding, it’s using a botnet, or a series of bots to flood someones connection to the internet. They basically overwhelm a person or company with so much activity that their connection can’t handle the load and it crashes.
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So how does it help the hacker? What is the reason for attack WoW with a DDoS?
How do we know this is ddos? I see nothing in the notes… do some of you have a ddos detector?
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Why does anyone do anything malicious?
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You’re right that was a bad comparison
Piracy. Literally.
It’s an extortive ransom practice. Modern pirates. They board your ship and hold you and all your stuff hostage until you pay.
and they’re not doing this to WoW. It’s widespread…hitting a lot of things.
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So they can sit in front of their PC and say “yay I’m cool!” or “That will teach them for banning me haha”
Okay, but I’ll ask again, why do they do it? If they want money, why don’t they just get a job instead of hacking into companies or hurting others?
Because some people…are villains.
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