wow Blizzard DDoSed After Announcing Shadowlands Delay

[Starym 3,800]

 

As we've talked about already, many players have been inconvenienced by the expansion delay announcement, with many plans being affected and even potential vacation days lost, with some even having refunded the expansion. Well, it seems at least one/a few players were REALLY unhappy with the delay as Blizzard servers were hit with a DDoS attack earlier today, as someone seems to have woken up, seen the announcement and decided to express their unhappiness in a very destructive way.

We are currently experiencing a DDoS attack, which may result in high latency and disconnections for some players. We are actively working to mitigate this issue #BlizzCS

— Blizzard CS EU (@BlizzardCSEU_EN) October 2, 2020

While some players are refunding the game or aggressively asking for everyone to be invited to the beta, this particular action is extremely unproductive and selfish, as there are still people enjoying and playing the game, regardless of Shadowlands' release date.

Here are some comments from the various reddit threads on the matter:

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"He who has no Life" has returned to rain his justice on those who wronged him. Just as foretold by Salzman.
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Maybe I'm too harsh, but I don't think a person who is willing to ddos Blizz over this delaying an unfinished game, has a job to take vacation from in the first place...
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So would they rather play an unfinished xpac during their vacation days?
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Imagine being this butthurt *filtered*.

'They're delaying the expac.... I'M GONNA PAY MONEY TO INCONVENIENCE THEM >:('

[Ragingwolf 310]

I really see no point for anyone being that upset and taking their anger/frustration out by doing a DDoS.  There is zero justification for it and they are just doing it out of spite.  *shakes head*

Edited October 2, 2020 by Ragingwolf

[Wildwitch 108]

I think they should find the man/woman and put them in jail and take away their internet for 10 years. Time to truly punish these brats who want to have a tantrum that affects millions of innocent people.

Thank YOU Blizzard for caring enough to delay a buggy game. The mature majority support this decision.

[Sabejnos 10]

Imagine, you are multibilion company, you are using the best solution on the globe (datacenters in Germany and Sweden built by the best companies for server hosting, anti-ddos protection and stuff) and you cannot handle simple DDoS attacks. You cannot mitigate them to the black holes, you cannot redirect them to honeypots and you cannot keep them from your production environment. Imagine people are paying you money for service you cannot deliver and you still blaming someone else. But I do understand. People in Blizzard's SOC are underpaid and they don't give a... how sad. 

I cannot even imagine what would happen if we don't stop DDoS attacks in our company environment where we operate airplanes, ships, trains and other stuff. We would be f*cked... 

Edited October 2, 2020 by Sabejnos

[Arcling 898]

Perhaps fault lies on companies managing those data centers, for not securing them properly. They should have proper mitigation in place.

[Sabejnos 10]

53 minutes ago, Arcling said:

Perhaps fault lies on companies managing those data centers, for not securing them properly. They should have proper mitigation in place.

Blizzard got own soc and noc team. They are responsible of mitigation. I know they were doing it when I was in Versailles for more than 5 years. These guys are sitting there, got all the tools available, possibility to connect with these guys in DCs, call provides, migitage all the things. 

Edited October 2, 2020 by Sabejnos

[Yridaa 490]

4 hours ago, Starym said:

this particular action is extremely unproductive and selfish

Not to mention illegal and a criminal offense across the globe, something that quite a few DDoSers don't understand. Although you can definitely say it's unlikely to have been a 14 y/o kid using their parents' credit card for a DDoS service in this particular case.

[tauken83 0]

What is the point of freaking out, they are delaying the game to MAKE IT BETTER!!! obviously things happened during the beta and it will take longer than expected to fix... the fact there releasing pre-patch on the 13th of October says were probably getting it mid-late november