I will thanks. Blizzard changed the rules. It’s not hardcore anymore it’s hardcore with a chance of revival. Now I might be playing with people who died and got their char restored. Not my thing. Not mad because like I said my only goal was to do 1-60 which I did before blizzard switched up. I’d actually be super pissed if they did this before I hit 60 and tainted my hardcore run.
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So now you’re playing appeal-core, not hard-core. All it takes is getting your followers to whine enough.
Grats on the achievement we got it in before blizzard went soft lol
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Onlyfangs has brought in 10’s of millions (more probably) in free advertising for WoW (literally, 30k viewer streamer can get paid 20-50k/hr for a sponsor).
Blizzard would be moronic not to help them out, financially it would be brain dead not to.
Also I’m pretty sure hardcore is only a thing due to them playing unofficial hardcore in the first place and popularizing it.
I’m kind of on the fence about the whole thing. Is it nice that Blizzard is finally revising their stance on disconnects from DDoS attacks, even if such a change came about because of streamers? Sure. At this same time, this is a slap in the face to regular players who have come forth with proof of disconnects due to DDoS and Blizzard basically giving those players the middle finger just because they’re not streamers with a handful of viewers.
Beyond this opinion, I find it really troubling that Blizzard can’t seem to prevent these sorts of attacks from happening. Like, you mean to tell me that some schmuck living in his basement can pay a small sum of money to have access to a DDoS service and the multi-million dollar Blizzard doesn’t have a cyber security team large enough to prevent the attack until after said attack has been active for days or weeks at a time?
I’ll admit that I know very little about DDoS attacks or how to prevent them, but it seems really strange to me that Blizzard is so incompetent at stopping these attacks that their services are constantly under threat from them.
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This is rather kind. I do think crashes, spikes, and bugs, and disconnections should never warrant revival. But, something like this a literal unfair attack from a third party is something which should not happen at all, it’s not normal like a crash or disconnection (which shouldn’t be normal).
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I’m just here to eat popcorn while watching people have a meltdown over this.
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Your numbers are insanely bloated, friend. Like, that’s not even remotely close.
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Sure it does. My entire journey I knew in the back of my head one dc due to anything and it was over. That threat was very real. It didn’t matter if it was a dc on my end or a ddos attack I just knew if I disconnect and die it’s over. I even played around it grinding easy green mobs the final couple of levels just in case it happened. Now that’s gone.
Even the rollback policy as at their “sole discretion” meaning that there is likely some manual intervention rather than an automated system to determine who was impacted by an incident. I bet the formula is:
if (majorStreamersImpacted.Any()) {
var charactersToRollback = characters.Where(x => x.DeathTime >= incidentTimeBuffer && x.DeathTime <= incidentTimeBuffer2 );
foreach (var characterToRollback in charactersToRollback) {
this.rollbackService.RollbackCharacter(characterToRollback);
}
}
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If Blizz sees this, please review (revive) OneBeerDave on Doomhowl. The logs will show it was a ddos (not directed at me but i succumbed because of it). Thanks!
I’m just saddened by your lack of empathy or understanding… smh.
On another note- YAY. Blizzard cares about its customers!!!
For the record, I didn’t lose a toon- but I think it’s BS for those who did. Streamers or not streamers. It’s just not right if Blizzard didn’t do anything.
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I mean honestly, this is the measures that should be taken, if you died a death that was out of your hands period. people keep swinging from OnlyFangs sacks, like they havent brought good content to the game, or are terrible players. In the end who really cares either way. If their group is what got this noticed more and influenced a decision on Blizzards end to bring something positive to the community as a whole, whats the issue? none. Thanks Blizzard
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lol. lmao, even.
YES!!! This is an amazing first step.
Are there steps being taken to prevent DDOS attacks in the future? Thanks!
I hope Blizz is ready for the 8 million requests they’re going to get going forward anytime someone dies.
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Exactly this
Correct decission. That being said. This shouldn’t be it.
There should be some major meassures taken to prevent this from affecting general population in the future. Because TBH… I don’t think the DDOS attacks will stop.
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Not like the servers are hardcore anymore
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Wrong lol, they literally get paid that much.
https://novo.tv/twitch-sponsorship-rate-calculator