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All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
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All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
So my thought w/o putting in a lot of thought lol,is that you set up code so that when your site has a certain amount of hits maybe 100 in 10 minutes or whatever your system can handle then it automatically shifts ip's away somewhere else or blocks them until less than 100 is met.
So then i did a quick Google search and there are many businesses that are able to block DDOS attacks so if that many exist then it is possible and i would think anyone requiring secure services would be using such technology or hiring it,so yeah i remain dumbfounded that this DDOS stuff is still going on.
So what it tells me is MANY businesses are not operating as secure as they SHOULD be.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
I haven't really ever seen any services which sell DDOS attacks online besides the stressers/booters thingy, I am sure they exist though, but even with a stress/booter I am not sure those allow a user to target login information unless that has evolved. ( Like I know its possible) but never seen that option in a basic booter before.
Could they not just put the servers behind Cloudflare like we have our basic servers setup?
https://www.incapsula.com/ddos/booters-stressers-ddosers.html I've seen these things before but never were aware they actually really did anything.
Man I was really enjoying the debate for the killing penalty on the battlefield
Seemed a lot of backers were split on it
And I thought Snipehunter's mention of making the incapacitation last just as long as a coup de grace (kill) would put a stopper on it. Because in my opinion the only reason to coup de grace (kill) an enemy would be to keep them out of the fight for as long as possible (unless they had some really good loots)
It was getting rather contentious!
The DDOS has been going on for nearly a day. Wonder how long it will last
I imagine the whole motivation of the attack is to cause the developers pain and illicit a response. The reply from the founder of the company is probably exactly what the person(s) wants. They do it for the attention.
I mean just read the very last part. So full of drama and heroism.
Once more it feels like he is roleplaying the valiant developer.
Every time I see things like this it seems to be because they want to inconvenience the person / company, so someone acknowledging it happening is going to basically acknowledge that they are irritated or hurting due to it and make the person doing it feel like it worked.
It's too easy to buy access to botnets, I've seen a few forums advertising it, and I've seen at least 10 sites the last time I was on TOR advertising the services (now I'm not sure how legit they were but I'm just saying they were there).
This reminds me of the whole Lizard Squad thing with PSN and Xbox Live that one Christmas, and then everyone finding out it was a bunch of 12 year olds paying for botnets with their parents cards calling themselves hackers. It's a weird situation today, but like DMKano said, you basically HAVE to get protection as a company, if not then there is always the possibility of getting screwed, even if there's no reason for someone to do it. Some people are just too bored and too rich, or too much of an asshole.
Im kind of expecting an anti-DDOS fundraiser at some point.
Caspien just seems so naive about most things...
But... it still shouldn’t take away from the fact that whoever is doing this is a dumbass and I hope they track him/her/them down.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
Also I think Caspian mistakenly thinks this is an organized attempt to "stop his vision" when really it is likely just some pissed off backer messing with him.
He should check his records to see if anyone has been particularly hostile in asking for a refund recently.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Love the inspirational rhetoric from Caspian though /s
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
I mean, it just makes no sense.
Also, I don't know why a "backer" would do it, unless they got banned from the forums or something. That would be fairly counterproductive. Unless, like Kyleran mentioned, someone got refused a refund, perhaps.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Will admit I am not a big fan of their pay per character system, especally when we know there is going to be a pay2win cash shop on top of it. Don't even try to deny it, you know its going to be there
Being a pessimist is a win-win pattern of thinking. If you're a pessimist (I'll admit that I am!) you're either:
A. Proven right (if something bad happens)
or
B. Pleasantly surprised (if something good happens)
Either way, you can't lose! Try it out sometime!
I am like you though I won't pay until it's released