Here is why I don't believe it's a DDOS attack.

1- PoE 1 exist for so long, settler league had no rollback server crash issue like this, previous leagues had no server issue like this.

2- This server issue did not existed on PoE 2 first launch.

3- This server issue started at PoE 2 Dawn of the Hunt launch and it was a thing for months.

4- During PoE 2 DotH league, we have never ever see any communication from GGG about the server issue. Forum and reddit was all about rollback server crash issue but absolutely no communication happened.

5- During CohhCarnage and his team interview with Jonathan stream which was aimed to be super casual interview and mostly targeted to developer's life and stuff, Cohh had to ask "whats happening to EU servers" because his chat was bringing up this question all the time. Jonathan casually replied with "Oh that's just ddos attack, that's all. We can't do anything about it and I don't have anymore to say" Afterwards Cohh said "he had to ask because chat is spamming" and he moved on to an another question.

6- I have never seen any developer team not communicate with playerbase during a serious DDOS attack. How he replied was so casual for a server issue that's been happening for months.

7- Now the same issue begun with PoE 1 newest league, suddenly they decided to communicate because this league promises a lot of players including new ones that is coming from first time PoE 2ers. Yet they give you the same excuse, DDOS attack. PoE 2 Dawn league had insane playerbase drop due to league being bad anyways, so they decided to ignore it and hope for servers to be better in the future leagues. Now that's happening again, they are working hard to fix it.

8- First of all, I have seen many game servers getting DDOSED before, yet none of them lasted months like this.

9- If this is a DDOS attack targeted to EU and other servers were fine, why when majority of eu playerbase switches to NA, the NA servers which had no issue before suddenly crashes and rollbacks like EU servers?

10- People who say it's because of RMT; Why this issue never happened during Settler or previous nearby leagues or PoE 2 first launch at all? PoE 1 exist for years, and we all know RMT in this game exist for long time. PoE 2 being first launch ever, you don't need to know how rmt going to be crazy. Yet had no issue like this. I don't think someone targeting the servers because they want to prevent people to progress.

11- This is all the red flags I gathered, feel free to comment and discuss. I do not believe this is ddos attack. I believe it's just a normal server problem that something happened and now they can't fix it for months. Maybe they need new server providers but costs shit ton of money and they don't want to spend that money and rather make us deal with the broken servers. There is something happening in background for sure but DDOS ain't it.

Tinfoil hat, but I'm inclined to agree. It's weird how it consistently happens with the new content spawning in. Those damn DDOS'ers must know when my stuff is spawning in.

Or maybe the DDoS only started when parties capable of doing so became interested in doing so?

I doubt GGG likes putting out the message

"Our servers are burning down and we can't fix it. No fixing it. Nothing on our end can be done. We have no way of stopping this problem. It will continue for the foreseeable future. Sorry."

I will put my tinfoil hat because the only time i got rollbacked since the alleged DDOS attack, and i basically played for several hours every day, was when a Kalandras Touch dropped for me, which promptly got rolled back, then never again.

Bad luck, sure, but way too coincidental for me to not be pissed off about it.

A major point not to believe the DDOS claim is that the issue moved towards the US when the EU playerbase started to shift towards the US servers. It's a load balancing issue and lack of resources to handle the player traffic in my opinion. They just try to be lean on the server side as that's an easy way to safe money but brought it to far. It's a normal way of working but you should be able to scale up when needed.

I have been in that situation as well.

I think it's Empyrian and his juicing team causing mass lag due to all the mega RIZZ they do on their maps. GGG's servers can't handle it.

seriously GGG WAKE UP tired of loosing 350c each crash scarab is expensive !!!!!!!!!!

I dont know what is going on, but its frustrating for sure. I keep losing my maps. I hope they can solve this, because most of the players don't have the patient to play like this.

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RefleX666#0250 wrote:

A major point not to believe the DDOS claim is that the issue moved towards the US when the EU playerbase started to shift towards the US servers. It's a load balancing issue and lack of resources to handle the player traffic in my opinion. They just try to be lean on the server side as that's an easy way to safe money but brought it to far. It's a normal way of working but you should be able to scale up when needed.

I have been in that situation as well.

Exactly.

They don't admit that it's a server issue because calling it Ddos is safer. With this way, players will blame non existed ddos attackers instead of blaming the devs. This also prevents players to quit the game, when they say it's ddos, it's more tolerable compared to normal server issue. Because a player would just leave if developers can't fix it, but when you make people believe it's ddos attack, players somehow feel different hope for the best so they keep playing.

It's all lies sadly, like I said the very same server issue was a thing on PoE 2 Dawn league for a very long time, they didn't say anything or done anything.

The only good outcome for this is, PoE 0.3 will be better now that they will full focus on fixing the server issues. Maybe they are going to change their server provider or something like that. I'm pretty sure it will take a long time but it will be done til PoE 2 0.3.

I can't belive this... I was standing in my HO since the last DC. I was doing my thing, waiting. I saw 30ms ping, i was like, ok let's try this. As soon i put one of my rolled corrupted map and pressed the open map button, ping went up to 10000 and the game DCd. Its just not possible to play.
GGG DO SOMETHING!!!