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Well I have read some disturbing posts here. I am not talking about the announcement that was made by SE but the flames posted by players. Do you think that SE wants to **** us all off?

No they dont and I will tell you why.

It is really simple it is money. Think about it ppl, if SE can't provide good service they lose subscriptions no matter how good the game is. (money lost). If SE has to keep employees at the server sites overtime or create new shifts to monitor the servers they lose money again in labor. Now lets say that these hackers are caught then they may be able to recover some (prolly not near enough tho) of the money lost in taking the extended measures to stop and/or catch the hackers. There is that chance that the ppl causing the problems will not get a monatary fine for the trouble(no recovery of lost funds) they have caused. So you think that SE is keeping this information from us just to spite us? no they are keeping this information from us so that they can form an investigation and catch the hackers. If the hackers are in fact players or are monitoring the POL and SE websites they would know that SE is onto them. Further more by announcing that there are "Server problems" SE could be using that as bait for the hackers to try some more of their tricks while monitoring software is running in an attemps to locate them. I highly doubt that this is a political attack on either Japan or the US. Why do I think this? Simple again who really cares about ppl playing video games? What kind of political statement would that send? "Your population cannot play its favorite online video game!! MWUUUHHAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!" {um...} no. That sounds like something that Pinky & the Brain would come up with. I think that SE did the right thing by waiting to tell us what was going on. I too had times when I got booted and could not get on. Was I upset? yes. At one time I was in a very good PT with my THF(I have not had a PT with THF in a while) and was looking forward to getting a few levels under my belt and at 42 that takes some time. Well I got DC and could not get back online for about 3 hours. My PT I had was still where they were when I left and they were all 2 levels higher than me. I do not blame SE for this I just accepted it for what it was and hope that it gets better. Well it looks like things are better now I have not had this problem in over a week. IF you think that I will keep just accepting the DCs and keep paying my money and supporting SE the answer is no. Accept that no matter how well you design software or firewalls some one will be malicous enough to hack them yes. With that "yes" I also expect some form of prevention from future occurances.

/endrant

Edited, Sat Apr 23 13:01:02 2005

well for most of the posters learn what a DDOS is before posting, and odds are the culprits have no connection with any of the things that have been proposed. Most likely some some script kiddie got ahold of some DDOS sofware and has been running it thinking they are all cool.

he has a good point, theres no way bush could win twise in a row.......those damn gil sellers,girrrr

I saw the post about intervals, this makes me even more worried, for all we know it could be a 10 yr old server someone got off of e-bay and hid in a shed somewhere with a cable running to it. If thats the case even finding the source won't garauntee finding the culperate. For all we know the starwars geek, the moogles, and the uber dude from this forum might already be far away from that server.

bwahahahahahahahaha im suprised this hasnt happend sooner, with the amount of disgust an anger some people have towards SE-FFXI. very very very funny, least imo.

Does anyone ever read the news? Or are you all too busy playing FFXI, the Chinese have a huge motivation for wanting to disrupt a large scale and lucrative Japanese company. So stop tryin to log on to FFXI, got to CNN.com, and find out what is going on in the world.

well I think this is bad and all, but I think due to the vague description of "third-party" I don't think we should be naming names or...countries. even though gilsellers and MAYBE the chinese are on top of the list of suspects.

But I really am getting so sick of getting punted at night that I honestly hope they get caught, imprised and then butt f'ed till their rear ends bleed!

"Attacks continue at this hour in intervals and we regret that our investigation cannot allow for estimates as to when we expect service to return to optimal levels."

Does anyone know what these intervals are/were? Just an area would be nice. I really need to do something. :-/

Blame the chinese! In one word, "no". Why would a chinese hacker decide to disrupt FFXI servers?? SE may be based in Japan, but the game is played by people worldwide and there are no political gains to be made in ******** with a bunch of teenagers and middle-aged bald men. The most likely suspect would be an ex-gilseller since they were recently banned, destroying an opportunity for them to make some cash. But for right now, it really doesn't matter. As long as they get the problem fixed. Now quit wasting your time and log back in. :P

I've been reading all the forums and read the one about the IP adress. Here is my theory. Considering that any player is sending player data and commands to a server, that person has limited axcess to that server, so this means a person connection to that server with a different connection that works off of some of the playonline files might be able to hack using the very files used to play the game. Doing this would have to go through an ID, so there is a possibility that someone is doing this through random character's ID's so that the hacker is impossible to be found unless a trap account was made to catch the hacker. It wouldn't be hard to get someone elses playonline ID eithor, people pay others to lv their character all the time, they give their user info and everything, which is completely unfair to those of us who lv our characters through the hard work of our own xp training.