I get in, play for 10 minutes, then disconnected. Close down, reload, try to get back in, rinse and repeat.
Now, I’m in a queue after getting disconnected. Get in, rinse repeat. I log back in, queue is even longer now. Now server showing as Low pop, but when I try to click on it, there’s a queue.
If you are unable to prevent DDOS from affecting your servers to this degree, then take them all offline rather than allowing people to waste their time thinking your game is working.
And get off your lazy butts and get into the office on a Sunday, your game is busted.
I understand your frustration, but doing so would be admitting that “he” won, at least until they come up with a definitive fix, which doesn’t seem possible from what little I know of DDOS “attacks”.
Knowing this went on yesterday until 9-9h30 PM EST, I’ll just take the day and do chores…Wasted too much time trying to log over and over and over…only to play 10 min total.
they don’t have to admit anything, its clear this d-bag has already won. So save your customers some time and further frustration. Instead they say and do nothing.
My understanding is this guy is doing it because Blizzard has failed to address the queue times? Maybe start there. Server transfers clearly didn’t work. Maybe prevent any new players from creating characters on those servers and open up the amount of players further.
You really cant stop them. What is called a botnet is basically just normal people, say me and you, with no idea could be in the botnet, and the person is using our computers (along with thousands of others) to send info to blizzards servers all at once. The servers cant keep up reading all the info at once, so it starts to slow down, and eventually will shut down so it doesnt burn up
One day this problem will be gone when everyone will have really good anti-virus. They are ddos attacking internet service providers of WoW US servers, that’s the problem. Otherwise, most botnet is located in countries like China which shouldn’t be contacting US servers in a first place