you better comp some people honor, your new system sucks enough as it trying to eek out 500k in a week with no players and now the world is server is down, again…
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It’s ridiculous. I recently resubbed and its nearly every day that I have experienced loss of service. They ought to compensate people or risk losing subs, again.
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take it up with the DDoS’er. Blizzard’s the victim here.
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Yeah i just got home from sunday lunch with the family and wanted to play. Logged in and getting DCed and people talking about DDOS in trade chat. Whats going on?
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its blizzards job to find a solution. we are the victims.
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it’s blizzard’s problem 
there are ways to defend against DDOS attacks, which every developer should assume is going to happen at some point.
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Ultimately a motivated and funded adversary is likely to get off their attack eventually.
A lot can be done to make it harder / mitigate but there’s simply no easy solution.
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And it’s probably a lot more difficult when you run your own cloud service like Blizzard does. If you’re using AWS you can just rely on the 69 trillion servers that can just be switched on to compensate during a DDoS.
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it is cool that they don’t rely on AWS, true
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You cannot completely prevent a DDOS attack. That’s why so many companies get hit by them and why people use them in the first place.
Yes, it is Blizzard’s responsibility to do what they can to prevent and mitigate it, but ultimately if someone wants to DDOS something, they will.
Get mad at the people doing the DDOS attacks, and stop supporting them.
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I’m curious what “support” you think DDOSers are getting from the average WoW user.
RMT gold, botting, paying for cheat programs, etc. The player base enables these behaviors and usually funds them.
Yea, caps really need to be reduced. A 420k cap is tough enough as it is, but disruptive events can really mess you up. I don’t think people really need to play 10-12 hour days to rank.
I’m 100% ok with total honour required being increased to compensate. Maybe take current honour, multiply by 1.25, and take current caps and multiply by 0.5.
be blizzard dev
arrive at work
do nothing all day, hardest choice is deciding whats for lunch
go home
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I agree make more servers…10layers right now
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