*as you may or may not know, the in game GM's and all the pol staff was outsorced from SE to a 3rd party*

this has been going on for months, and the trojen has just now hit enuf PC users to reach critical mass I FREAKING TOLD THEM ABOUT IT MONTHS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

some of the POL tech support staff need to be fired for not passing the info on to the rest of the staff!!!!!!!

go to http://na.square-enix.com click the complaint/suggestion link and tell them the playonline staff suck! I did!

i didnt go through the first time so im sorry i posted like 6 times

i think this is just like .hack but different. the attackers are probly exworkers than were fired and pissed about it and want revenge. i think they are attacking in waves like .hack have u guys noticed the data flucuation going from like 243 to 3915 the incress in data is the attack. like in .hack but then maybe i just watch to much tv. this was bound to happen tho. if you want to talk more anout this and are on the fairy sever /tell crim thats me.

i think this is just like .hack but different. the attackers are probly exworkers than were fired and pissed about it and want revenge. i think they are attacking in waves like .hack have u guys noticed the data flucuation going from like 243 to 3915 the incress in data is the attack. like in .hack but then maybe i just watch to much tv. this was bound to happen tho. if you want to talk more anout this and are on the fairy sever /tell crim thats me.

i think this is just like .hack but different. the attackers are probly exworkers than were fired and pissed about it and want revenge. i think they are attacking in waves like .hack have u guys noticed the data flucuation going from like 243 to 3915 the incress in data is the attack. like in .hack but then maybe i just watch to much tv. this was bound to happen tho. if you want to talk more anout this and are on the fairy sever /tell crim thats me.

think logically for a minute people, though that's asking much since you don't show any any other time.

Gil sellers need to what to make gil to sell it? They need to play, if the system crashed they don't.

More than like it's some idiot that is trying to force date which causes most crashes in a game.

If you wanted to crash a game t'd really not require much all you'd have to do is send character information that can't exist to the system for recall and it'll pretty much kill it i think lol

I dont know anything about how cheating in FFXI might work, but I remember back in the day playing diablo and all the cheaters there. Servers were regularly flooded to desync them long enough for cheaters to make duplicates of their items. Might want to keep an eye out for people who suddenly have more of those rare items they were lucky to get once.

People seem to think this is an act of revenge. There's a lot of possibilities though. -Supposedly- NM timers are reset, and most NM's spawn shortly after a server comes back up from a crash. I don't know if this is true, but an LS member killed Argus (and got the charm for the 4th time.. lucky fugger) A couple hours after Kujata came back up. Could this be someone taking advantage of that? People could make a lot of gil if they could somewhat control NM-spawning.

lmao, i swear to Buddha, FFXI is going .Hack :P but yeah, on the more serious note, 1) i don't see the motivation in someone's eyes to ruin millions of people's fun, i hate ******** 2) my ls was discussing the possible reasons, many the same as said below, but also, if the hackers were like the best ever, they may be able to hack FFXI backwards to where the credit card numbers and such are stored, use the game as a node on the grid, just pass through it and into the server for the rest of it... then again, what do i know?

The stupidest thing is when people hack a game. It happened on DiabloII, and that sucked too. And I think the people that did this pretty much are life-less losers who suck at the game and have to cheat to win. It's not that hard of a game, and if you have to cheat, you really do suck.

As for the gil-sellers, don't do something that the agreement tells you not to do. And don't get pissed when you get banned for something that you are NOT SUPPOSED TO DO. And gil-buyers bug me more than the sellers, because they buy gil because they suck and can't spend the time to farm gil. FFXI is one hell of a time waster, so if you can't spend that much time on it, stop paying $12+ a month and get a different game.

That or it could just be some guy that wants revenge against a high up Square employee because his family was killed. You know, japanese drama.

Double post, so I might as well make use of it

one more thing I forgot to add in the previous post........

Buying and selling gil is against the terms of service, so all gilbuyers and sellers need to rot in hell :)

Edited, Fri Apr 15 19:14:27 2005

I wonder if there will be any benificial glitches that occur?

I wouldn't put this past an inside job, after all the programmers and developers are human too and have greedy tendancies and such. I mean look at us with ***** over the stupidest of crap like some guy who pulled a monster we were pulling. Or some guy trying to zone cause he's getting destroyed by a train, but everyone at the enterance is too dumb to zone and they all get killed by the train the guy brought. Instead of thinking "boy I was stupid for not zoning then" we say stuff like "Fu@#ing noob die" and the guy could have been a 75 rank 10 nihon-jin playing since before we ever got out greedy grubby meat hooks on the game to begin with. Remember, people are not generally "good", we are generally "evil", as well as petty, cruel, incredibly stupid, vengeful, greedy, selfish, and all around a$$holes. My point being...a SE or "former" SE employee has the best ability of doing such things to the network. Sorry about the ramble about human nature.

P.S. I don't exclude my jerk self from this when I say, let's stop being all the above things to each other...

Edited, Fri Apr 15 17:50:10 2005

AT least it makes me feel a little better that the servers themselves aren't that crappy that I keep DCing. . . that it's an attack on the network, not network failings.