Because they flood all the weak isp's in between. It's like bombing the road on the way to your concert. They can't blow up the stadium so they take out the roads. Blizzard isn't necessarily vulnerable.
- - - Updated - - -
Except they aren't just disrupting Blizzard. They are flooding many isp's at the same time. If someone actual gets the electric chair for it, others will think twice about doing it.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Essentia@Cho'gall of Inebriated Raiding.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ssentia/simple
http://masteroverwatch.com/profile/pc/us/Tharkkun-1222
WoW. That is some leap of imagination. One has to ask then why would they even need to do this? They are a software company making games. They have had server problems before.
This is not some kid trying hard to hide their misdemeanor from their parents or school teacher.
Well I'm not sure what most of that meant but now I have something new to read about so thanks for that! I think they just have their priorities in a different order. From their point of view, why change it if it works most of the time? Maybe it has something to do with the way WoW's engine works, like it'd be a huge ordeal to overhaul the way the servers and the games communicate.
Me and several other people I know are back on and everythings working fine. For the moment, anyways.
Last edited by Varanus; 2016-08-03 at 01:35 AM.
Players are currently experiencing high latency and disconnections as a result of DDoS attacks towards certain internet service providers. We are currently monitoring this situation and will provide updates as they become available.
Please follow @blizzardcs on Twitter for further updates.
Source: Blizzard.
PS: It is not "certain" ISPs, it is toward Blizzard since there is nothing on outages or other north american operational mailing lists.
i'm not trying to get on wow. i'm just tired of seeing these people always do this, and then there's basically no reprisal. i hate the idea of someone dying, but there must be fear instilled in these children.
the thing of it is this. they're likely 15 to 18 years old, they think they're immortal and above everyone else. they need to be shown they're mortal, they need to have dread instilled into minds so that even getting on the computer causes hesitation and fear. only then will they ever stop this.
Looks like they are moving on from Battle.net. Steam having issues now and this message on PoodleCorps twitter:
"Switching attack to another gaming network soon"
Looks like they switched to Steam.
There is a thin line between not knowing and not caring, and I like to think that I walk that line every day.