Final Fantasy 14 gamers are discovering themselves unable to get into the sport once more, solely this time the issues can’t be blamed on server congestion as Square Enix has revealed the sport is recovering from a sequence of DDoS assaults in North America. The staff continues to be monitoring the state of affairs whereas looking for a extra everlasting resolution.
Final Fantasy 14 DDoS assaults have an effect on North American servers
The DDoS assaults aimed on the Final Fantasy 14 servers solely lasted for 3 minutes between 10:22 AM and 10:25 AM PT on June 30, 2022. During the DDoS assaults, gamers could have been disconnected from the North American information heart worlds and would have had points logging again into these Worlds. Those who managed to remain related would have problem “accessing, sending, and receiving data” from these information facilities. While many of the issues at the moment are over, Square Enix “will continue to monitor the situation and work with ISPs to come up with countermeasures.”
The assaults occurred simply 5 days earlier than Patch 6.18 is because of arrive on July 5. This will introduce the power to journey between Worlds on totally different information facilities to type events and full missions while there. The characteristic shall be restricted to journey inside the similar bodily information heart, so gamers will be unable to staff up with these from different areas. In addition to the Data Center Travel characteristic, there shall be a brand new Meteor information heart added to Japan with worlds being redistributed inside. Europe may even get an growth within the variety of Worlds obtainable with Sagittarius and Phantom being added to the Chaos Data Center, and Alpha and Raiden being added to the Light Data Center.
In different information, it’s alleged Santa Monica Studio’s personal staff have been at the hours of darkness concerning the sport’s proposed God of War Ragnarok launch date and collector’s version reveal yesterday. Elsewhere, EA posted an ill-advised Tweet about single-player video games and now appears to have regretted that call.
