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#1 Dec 29 2015 at 7:56 PM Rating: Good
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Well they are at it again.. a DDoS is in process on DayBreak as I post this
#2 Dec 29 2015 at 8:11 PM Rating: Decent
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Thanks for the update. Not likely to be back up quick since both daybreak employees that work on eq are on their way home right now.
#3 Dec 29 2015 at 8:37 PM Rating: Good
This is getting to be quite stupid, trying to play and pay for a game you are not able to play
#4 Dec 29 2015 at 9:56 PM Rating: Good
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Been crashing a lot between zoning too... sent bug. At least the put something up on SoE forums...oh sorry Day Break forums...but that was 5:45pm
pacific...now 8pm
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#5 Dec 30 2015 at 7:32 AM Rating: Good
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Problem fixed /crosses fingers
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#6 Dec 30 2015 at 9:02 AM Rating: Good
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I logged in last night around 12:00 CST, had no trouble logging in at all, and just noticed some slight lag in my HA. Hot zones had no lag at all. Was on for about 1:30.

If it was still going on, he didn't do a very good job ;)

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#7 Dec 30 2015 at 1:33 PM Rating: Good
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Still going on. I had to bypass the Launcher to get in, but then couldn't create a new char. I was able to log in a char, but was unable to zone.

EDIT: Also cannot access their forums. I get this message: An unexpected database error occurred. Please try again later.

Edited, Dec 30th 2015 2:36pm by KC13
#8 Dec 30 2015 at 1:48 PM Rating: Good
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This guy? https://twitter.com/TheProxseas A clansman icon? The grand kleagle of twitter. He needs to be tuned with a pillowcase full of soda cans.

Bypass the launcher: http://www.redguides.com/forums/showthread.php/24968-Using-the-Patchme-command-to-bypass-the-SOE-Launcher

Edited, Dec 30th 2015 1:37pm by Trappin
#9 Dec 30 2015 at 1:51 PM Rating: Decent
Well, just got home early to play. Cant even load up launcher. Tried to go on EQ.com and nothing. WTF is going on now?
#10 Dec 30 2015 at 1:53 PM Rating: Decent
I was in game but finally logged out, way to laggy to do anything except maybe roll a alt. Tried to log back in and everything get black screen and everquest.com took a dump also.
#11 Dec 30 2015 at 2:08 PM Rating: Decent
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What did we do this time??? Are they Chip Kelly fans???
#12 Dec 30 2015 at 4:56 PM Rating: Good
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Yeah, it's bad now. Nothing like last night. Oh well, at least they didn't do it when it was double XP :)
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#13 Dec 30 2015 at 5:03 PM Rating: Good
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The first time this happens, I can understand, but after the Nth time, the monkey is on their back for not securing and safeguarding their servers. At this point, they are either unwilling or unable to perform even basic systems administrative functions to maintain access to their servers.
#14 Dec 30 2015 at 5:12 PM Rating: Decent
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long time lurker here. Bummed that my favorite game is the target of this stuff.
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#15 Dec 30 2015 at 5:45 PM Rating: Decent
Venenzi wrote:
long time lurker here. Bummed that my favorite game is the target of this stuff.

It's not so much EQ as it is the Launcher that they use for all their properties. They need to still allow 'launch screen' login so when some H1Z1 fan gets p*ssed, he can just DDOS H1Z1 and leave EQ alone.
#16 Dec 30 2015 at 5:54 PM Rating: Decent
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deadlaughb wrote:
Thanks for the update. Not likely to be back up quick since both daybreak employees that work on eq are on their way home right now.


Both ??! As in there are only two!*??Smiley: oyvey

We should be getting some credits....I missed all of the double xp...and have barely been able to play since we did get accounts back up and running Smiley: rolleyes

And...why does it always say servers are up when they aren't?? https://www.daybreakgames.com/status/#eq


Edited, Dec 30th 2015 7:52pm by itsjustus
#17 Dec 30 2015 at 6:53 PM Rating: Decent
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I created a desktop shortcut to the EverQuest2.exe and was able to use it directly.
I am on Win10, so the patcher tool wasn't installed.
I simple entered the desired username/password and was able to login.
#18 Dec 30 2015 at 6:56 PM Rating: Decent
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When H1Z1 came out, it broke EQ for about a week, where EQ had performance and connectivity issues. It does not even take a Papa India Sierra Sierra Echo Delta H1Z1 player to break EQ.
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itsjustus wrote:
deadlaughb wrote:
Thanks for the update. Not likely to be back up quick since both daybreak employees that work on eq are on their way home right now.


Both ??! As in there are only two!*??Smiley: oyvey


I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the number of employees directly working on EQ content/servers has nothing to do with the number of employees that maintain the network itself. And it's the network that was being attacked, not the EQ servers specifically. To be fair to Daybreak though, the first "D" in DDoS is what makes it difficult to deal with. You basically have to black hole every IP that's involved in the attack, with the problem being that you have to be able to distinguish between legitimate and malicious traffic (and some DDoS tools are pretty clever about hiding this). It's all the numbskulls who allow their systems to get hacked and used as platforms for these sorts of attacks that make them successful. On the flip side, given they have been the target of such attacks in the past, you'd think that they'd have some sort of semi-automated process for blocking one once it occurs.

And on the double flip side, when they turn on such protective processes, it's entirely possible that some of the legitimate traffic gets blocked as well, thus leading folks to the "I can't log in!" problem rather than the "it's slow as heck!" problem. Um... And that doesn't count those users of the site whose systems might actually be being used as part of the attack without their knowledge. If there's an attack like this, and after/during it, you find you can't log in at all, you might just want to check your own system (and all systems on your home network) for malware. You could be part of the problem.
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