Hi, Id like to discuss a few things here,..

What could it be and the reasons behind someone wanting to DDOS CCP ??

Lets bring it down to where it all started.


1- Why do you think CCP is getting DDOSed?
2- Do you think CCP brought this upon itself?
3- What did CCP might have done wrong?


Just looking for reasons, because people dont ddos others for no reason.

Share your thoughts.

People totally do ddos for no reason, yeah.

And just because you can't keep up with current events, they did it to Blizzard, too, as well as quite a few other companies(EBay too, I think). It's coming out of India, is the running thought.

So "they" are just hitting as many targets as they can.

Script kiddies are going to spoil the internet for the rest of us

... actually, while I think that it's incredibly easy to overanalyze the goals and priorities of script kiddies and their ilk, if I had to point to a motive I'd just note that CCP has been doing a great job of going after RMT sellers for quite a while now, and they're probably lashing out.

My issues started around a mini-patch around February 23rd. My issue with CCP is there has been a lot of poor craftsmanship on their part lately. I pay a subscription to play the game and not to fix their screw-ups. A company that has been developing the same game for over a decade should know how to properly patch the game without a lot issues.

I wonder if banning all ip's not hardwired to player accounts

No, because then one **** behind a NAT does something that results in EVERYBODY behind the NAT being banned. It would mean anybody not on a fixed IP has a chance of being seen as banned, even when they are not. Forget the concept of an IP address being able to identify something on the internet. The whole idea of public and private networks make it unrealistic. Even IPv6 will not solve the issue as you can have computers shared between individuals.

99.9% of the time these things are usually due to something the company did to **** someone off. Take the 2011 hacking of SOE, PSN, & Sony by Anon just because of the arrest of a guys who hacked a ps3 game. So generally this is something CCP if you go with the status quo CCP brought it upon themselves.

Your post amounts to 'blaming the victim'

Just looking for reasons, because people dont ddos others for no reason.

I just realised you said this.

Sure they do. But then again, "***** & giggles" are enough of a reason to do anything these days.

Hmmm. I wonder if this...



... and this ...



... are related.

they want an excuse to exercise power or are criminals

Hi, Id like to discuss a few things here,..

What could it be and the reasons behind someone wanting to DDOS CCP ??

You mean, like using a video game out of context (that is, paying no heed to the ingame fictional narrative and having no interest im building it), and logging in with the express purpose of making random people mad IRL?

The NTP amplification is a rather new toy that web analysts are having a slightly more difficult time mitigating, AFAIK. And just like another schoolyard yo-yo craze, there are a bunch of kids with new toys that want to not only play with them, but show them off.

CCP tends to be more of an instigator then a victim.

sorry dumbarse but 'someone did something i didn't like' isn't justification

a victim is a victim

Your post amounts to 'blaming the victim'

If the reason was to make you mad IRL, then the reason wouldn't be "***** & giggles" would it. If you're getting mad IRL over a video game, then I would suggest you aren't enjoying said game.

And also, the last I checked, you can't play EVE out of context because it's a sandbox, with an in-game narrative developed by the players.

Well constructed point

Well, there are people who are really giggling when some random eve player gets mad IRL because of their actions, and it does not fit any ingame narrative, nor their character development. Simply put, they don-¦t care about their character, it-¦s only a means to an end (making people mad, collecting hate mail, tears etc).

Otherwise, why would they create and biomass ganking alts when they reach negative sec status?

You will herp "but thats frwned upon by ccp". Well yes, and maybe accounts used to alt gank and recycle said alts are sometimes banned: which is good for business, because then, gankers will buy another one.

And you can verily play any online game out of context, if you pursue results that are outside the "magic circle", that is, the game universe and ingame narrative. Once again, aiming at making people mad IRL, not playing the game to play pretend being a pod pilot and feeling elation at your character-¦s epic adventures, but merely using said game and character as a means to make people mad IRL, the goal being, feeling good about your RL self having been the source of a random player-¦s disarray, this fits no ingame narrative at all. It-¦s not play pretend, it-¦s being an online jerk.

Much like highschoolers trolling their classmates on facebook, or people DDOSing servers,

for example, you did nothing that justified my insulting you

(sorry)

I could care less about being insulted I am thick skinned. However I never said that what I said was justification. However it is the reason that most of the children will give for doing it. CCP even if you try to deny it adds their own special fuel to the fire and burning bridges is risky business. You make a person mad enough they will do anything.

Nail on head I believe.

I really do worry about that 60 bill CNR * 2 guy . Especially his family.

Confusion about the difference between reality and a video game.

If someone gets mad in real life over the events that took place in a videogame, whether in 'context' or not, then they are probably not enjoying the game, in which case they should try another.

In the case of EVE, though, there is no 'context' or 'in-game narrative' but that which the players create. This is the purpose of a sandbox.