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The Final Fantasy XI (and PlayOnline) Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are still going on and it is definitely making an impact on game-play.

Square-Enix made a somewhat stupid decision to do a major update during these attacks and many, many people suffered from timeout errors and failed updates. I couldn't update for over 24 hours and when I finally did, my plants were dead. Not being able to connect is a real problem in a persistent-world massive multiplayer online game (MMOG); especially one as high maintenance as FFXI. Continue reading "FFXI DDoS Dilemma"