Final Fantasy 14 is currently being targeted by waves of DDoS attacks on its servers, causing players to disconnect from the game at seemingly random intervals. The ongoing DDoS attacks on Final Fantasy 14 are primarily concentrated on the North American data centers of Aether, Primal, Crystal, and Dynamis as of this writing.
In short, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt normal server operations by sending floods of traffic at it all at once. This is often done using a network of "bots" comprised of several devices, servers, or computers that flood a target with false requests or packets of information. A single attacker can then command the bot network via a dedicated command server to overwhelm a target with information and cause problems for legitimate users. There is no known way to make a server completely immune to a DDoS attack, though games like Final Fantasy 14 can mitigate the traffic from a bot network.
Although this is not the first time that Final Fantasy 14 has faced a DDoS attack, an ongoing wave is causing problems for players on specific data centers. On the Final Fantasy 14 subreddit, several users reported...
