I do not play HC classic, but I still support Blizzard doing a rollback for them

[Zerveonetwo-tichondrius]

@Galbsadi-the-underbog

Sure, but this didn’t affect all of Microsoft

This has been ongoing for close to a month now and Microsoft/AWS were targeted literally last week. I’ve been getting notices on my work email from our tech dept over it, because the outlook servers actually were down for a bit last week… And it’s been across industries targeted towards multiple North American companies, not just WoW HC. I think they’re just targeting whatever they can hit and hoping to cause chaos, because this absolutely is not an isolated incident

@Altesh-area-52

It’s some losers disrupting HC Classic

Wrong. A handful of people running DDoS scripts targeting WoW servers isn’t going to be anywhere close to enough to take down basically every north american Activision game/service…

It also wasn’t when they started the raid, it was on ebonroc which is the 5th boss, more than halfway through

[Oneonex-area-52]

@Boomdoggle-zuljin

Is that really the solution, to do nothing? I don’t play hardcore, but if I did and saw hundreds of players dying in these episodes, I’d consider that game mode unplayable. I know people who stopped playing hardcore because of the long list of players who were killed off by whatever is happening.

The solution was the line above what you quoted

Blizzard literally just got bought by a company that sells a DDoS protection service, it’s ridiculous how flimsy the Blizzard servers are. Once that’s fixed or hardcore has sort of protection built in it’s pointless just to deploy rollbacks.

What if people don’t want to be rolled back? So do you just roll back the big streamer guild? What about smaller guilds this griefed? Do they need to manually request for a roleback? Then you consider the exploits that comes with this and it’s actually pretty difficult

[Zerveonetwo-tichondrius]

@Oneonex-area-52

Blizzard literally just got bought by a company that sells a DDoS protection service, it’s ridiculous how flimsy the Blizzard servers are

To think that Activision-Blizzard doesn’t have DDoS protection is incredibly stupid, but there is no protection possible if the DDoS is large enough, ie, from a nation-state or millions of computers working in tandem

[Oneonex-area-52]

@Zerveonetwo-tichondrius

To think that Activision-Blizzard doesn’t have DDoS protection is incredibly stupid, but there is no protection possible if the DDoS is large enough, ie, from a nation-state or millions of computers working in tandem

Other companies consistently block DDoS attemps 500x bigger than anything the WoW community could do

Keep demanding sub par

[Ratherin-crusader-strike]

@Cäpslöck-proudmoore

If you open up the door to rollbacks being possible (assuming that it is technically feasible), What’s the objective criteria for starting a rollback that won’t open up more problems/angry forum threads?

Why do people keep positioning this as a slippery slope situation when it very clearly is not lol

[Boomdoggle-zuljin]

Why would a nation state care about a few WoW hardcore servers enough to attack around the clock? They’d be going after our government servers, where thanks to changes made by people who have no clue about security, a lot of data has been made directly or indirectly available.

[Fearra-proudmoore]

@Galbsadi-the-underbog

I do not play HC classic

Me either! I’m so glad we have this in common and you came here to tell us. I feel very fulfilled in life now.

[Galbsadi-the-underbog]

@Fearra-proudmoore

I feel very fulfilled in life now.

Me too! I’m so glad we have this in common and you came here to tell me.

I also still support Blizzard doing a rollback for the HC players so the DDOSers don’t feel encouraged to do it again.

[Zerveonetwo-tichondrius]

They care about our stock market, which is why large corporations like Microsoft, Amazon and X are being targeted by it. Activision-Blizzard just falls under the Microsoft umbrella. Look how Tesla’s stock plumetted after the X DDoS attacks. That wiped hundreds of billions from the market.

It wasn’t targeting wow hardcore servers, they just got caught in the crossfire

[Galbsadi-the-underbog]

@Zerveonetwo-tichondrius

Look how Tesla’s stock plumetted after the X DDoS attacks.

You mean after Elon Musk said and did dumb things to alienate his customer base? The problem with Tesla stock isn’t an X DDOS, it’s people boycotting Tesla, lol…

[Fauxstrasza-stormrage]

No because with characters dead, there’s less of a jackpot for people to ddos.

Rollbacks are bad.

[Zerveonetwo-tichondrius]

@Galbsadi-the-underbog

You mean after Elon Musk said and did dumb things to alienate his customer base? The problem with Tesla stock isn’t an X DDOS, it’s people boycotting Tesla, lol…

Regardless, thats beside the point and you picking out some irrelevant little detail does absolutely nothing to disprove my main point. You’re just looking for goal posts to move. This isn’t a political argument even though you’re trying to spin it into that

Thinking this was targeted towards wow hardcore servers to wipe onlyfangs is grade A idiotic

[Galbsadi-the-underbog]

@Zerveonetwo-tichondrius

Regardless, thats beside the point and you picking out some irrelevant little detail does absolutely nothing to disprove my main point. You’re just looking for goal posts to move. This isn’t a political argument even though you’re trying to spin it into that

You’re the one who tried to spin something happening to not-Tesla as the reason for Tesla stock losing value, lol. I merely pointed out the is-Tesla reason rather than trying to attribute a not-Tesla reason.

Next you’re going to claim that Target shares are dropping because Blizzard got DDOS’d. Makes just as much sense.

[Ratherin-crusader-strike]

@Fauxstrasza-stormrage

No because with characters dead, there’s less of a jackpot for people to ddos.

There won’t be any characters left to DDoS if Blizzard doesn’t do something about it lol

[Geesus-dreamscythe]

I firmly believe roll backs should be done when Blizz has server crashes on their end with 0 fault of the players, these crashes are to often and have killed off a great version of the game.

[Galbsadi-the-underbog]

Ironically, this is the best case scenario if Blizzard does nothing, people quit HC Classic, servers die, attacks stop.

[Generousjim-moon-guard]

I honestly couldn’t care less about what cluster hardcore is on. It is what it is. As long as there’s NO rollback or rezzes.

[Fearra-proudmoore]

@Galbsadi-the-underbog

I also still support Blizzard doing a rollback for the HC players so the DDOSers don’t feel encouraged to do it again.

My cat just killed a mouse while playing with it and I had to toss it outside, as I don’t think he was going to eat it. However, I think the mouse was experiencing a bit of lag, because he died really early into the play session. Do you think Blizzard will restore the mouse if I asked?

[Badatcs-arthas]

Also due to scaling such as that, smaller time outfits can disrupt specific targets.
Its inherently the same, no matter the scale.
Basically impossible to stop.

[Galbsadi-the-underbog]

Well, at least you’re consistent.

Not exactly bright about the implications of this, but at least consistent…and that consistency would make the whole thing not my problem, which probably means I wouldn’t have even known about it to begin with, so, fair.