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Final Fantasy XI Suffers DDOS Attacks
_xeno_ writes "Final Fantasy XI is currently under a DDOS attack from unknown parties. No additional information is really available, but Square-Enix has contacted "[l]aw enforcement authorities in Japan, the United States, and Europe." The attacks started on April 9th and are evidently ongoing, causing server downtime, preventing people from logging in to the game, and causing extra latency. No word has been made on the exact nature of the attacks or any progress on blocking the attacks."
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Read the article you posted more carefully. The person saying that playonline used port 25 put the words "I think" before the sentance for a reason. Many ISP's block 25, this was one specific ISP. I believe they found a router somewhere that was acting wonky causing the issue.
Its newsworthy becuase i've been playing this game for a year and this is the second time the servers have had issues. Ever. Also, each game server is running on multiple machines, so whoever is doing this is going to great lengths and may move on to other MMO's.
*cough* not that they'd notice at first
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i've been playing almost 8+ hours every day for a year and i haven't noticed any new problems from the past week.
of much bigger concern to everyone i know in the game is the recent announcement that they are lowering the xp requirements to hit level 75 (max level)
- are people with multiple jobs at 75 getting screwed ?
- there's not enough places for 75's to play as it is. if they make it easier to get to 75, where the hell are all these new people going to go?
it's a great game but the endgame has always been really weak and this can't help matters