Where are all the folks calling Blizzard liars like they did when Trion was getting DDOS'd for AA launch?
Happens with every launch - Wildstar got DDOSd, ArcheAge, now WoW.
It's hardly a surprise anymore - expect every major launch to be accompanied by DDOS
Yes guys, i was whining and yelling kinda saying that there was no DDOS attacks. Let me rephrase it, if there was a DDOS attack at the launch of Warlords of Draenor, it was minimally affecting ALL servers considering that many many servers were crashing because Blizzard made it so that every damn player had to stand in 1 place on their server.
DDOS attacks as you see them from ingame or while trying login are pretty and obviously different compared to just 10million people, or say 30.000 active players trying to enter 1! server at the same time.
You will see in other news that subscribers in wow raised from 7million to 10million.
I dont believe that blizzard excected a 40% increase of population in just 4 days. Sure DDOS might have happened but not on all servers and not for long.
Plus consider that the 5 days free of game were not for a DDOS attack problems but for stability and unexpected stuff.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/15269759060
please read it and stop saying blizzard servers were DDOS all the time.
Plus, most of the downtime on the heavily populated server i play was for server hardware upgrade ...