Servers DDOSed the fuck?

[Twistedelmo]

From time to time I'm sure, but why stop there, there's probably a sandwich shop near their offices that gets a lot of Blizzard people turning up.

Should I also hang around there in the hope they'll turn up? Or maybe, just maybe it'd be a better idea to leave a message / comment where you know they'll be, like their own forums...

Half the time they don't even read their own forums....

[Deleted]

You seem rather upset about the whole affair.

You seem to be unable to read my state of mind from a whimsical forum post..

[Mitters]

The wow forums are even more autistic than these ones, I can't read them without losing a few braincells.

[MCMLXXXII]

Serious question cuz I'm not well versed in technology: how can we tell it's a DDOS, just speculation?

Mostly speculation, but also a bit of process of elimination.
Launch night was perfect and there have been DDoS attacks already this week bij some nutthurt botters and those nostalrius freaks.

[Deleted]

It's back. Have fun all.

[Justpassing]

You seem rather upset about the whole affair.

No shit turdburglar, I work 50 hours a week to come home to this.

[Cthulhu 2020]

"HEY GUIS LOOK AT ME I'M A HACKER"

-DDoSers

- - - Updated - - -

It's back. Have fun all.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand it's down again.

[Netherspark]

Isn't it rather odd that both US and EU servers are affected?

[Poppincaps]

Started happening literally exactly as I sat down in my chair after 12 hours of work, evidently. I'm sorry, everyone. This is my fault. These are the two hours I have before bed, and good old Murphy and his darn law has to shit all over it.

Same happened to me brother, it's all our fault

/shakes fist

[rayvio]

wouldn't say it's odd, just means that the attack is targeted against both regions

[MCMLXXXII]

DDoSers:

[Deleted]

Nah, its usual expansion release server overload.

Please tell me your are not dumb enough to think this has anything to do with to many actual players trying to logg in.

Its obviously a DDOS attack.

[Kuja]

I can't even log into battle.net Been stuck at "Logging in." for about a hour soon.

[Deleted]

It's EU only...

Go check down detector map.

[Deleted]

Please tell me your are not dumb enough to think this has anything to do with to many actual players trying to logg in.

Its obviously a DDOS attack.

It's friday evening, you know right?

DDOS is the new excuse for blizzard I guess.

[Beazy]

DDOS attacks come from an extremely large network of computers, usually tied to each other through a dormant virus that sits on your computer, or popular software with a security loop hole. The host sends a signal to a million PCs with this virus and then, at the same time, all of the machines on this network send a packet request to the target server(s), and BoooOOoooooOOoooM no more WoW.

Check out this sweet website called Digital Attack Map to get a better understanding.

[MCMLXXXII]

It's friday evening, you know right?

DDOS is the new excuse for blizzard I guess.

I;m sure more people logged in at once on launch night.

[miffy23]

It's friday evening, you know right?

DDOS is the new excuse for blizzard I guess.

US realms were DDOSed last night, now it's EU.

In case you hadn't noticed the issue started almost precisely at 08:00 PM CET. They are clearly targeting the weekend evening load crowd, when people will get the most upset and Blizzard will get the most unfounded bile from uninformed and frustrated players.

If the realms were prone to crashing, they would have on release. There hasn't been a single hiccup on most EU realms all week.

[HordeFanboy]

blizzard should just invest on cloudflares

[Ringthane]

blizzard have made over milions of dollars and cant even protect servers. fix your shit. invest money on server protect

I wish everyone could learn how these things work. You don't even have to take classes at a school any more. You can look it up on the internet.

Fact is, Blizzard can't do any more to stop being DDOS'd than you can, sunshine.