Recent DDOS Attacks

http://maplestory.nexon.net/news/news/current/00IGe/

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Originally Posted by Nexon

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Dear players,

During the holiday break, a number of players experienced interruptions to service across our portfolio of games. These issues were related to an ongoing Denial of Service (DDOS) attack from an unknown outside party / parties.

DDOS attacks work by overloading a website or online service by spamming it with requests, tying up all possible resources so that genuine players are either slowed to a crawl or unable to connect. This is a type of attack that has increased in popularity recently and has been plaguing high profile games, publishers and even entire gaming networks.

Due to the unexpected nature of these attacks it is difficult to completely safeguard against them, but we have been working to increase our infrastructure to reduce the impact of future incidents.

Our teams will continue to ensure that future attacks are dealt with as quickly as possible to minimize the disruption to your gameplay experience. Providing a stable and enjoyable game environment for you all is of the utmost importance to us.

Thank you for your patience and understanding while we combat these attacks.

- The Nexon Team -

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Same message last year, and yet not a lot has changed. :\

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Originally Posted by iamflip

Same message last year, and yet not a lot has changed. :\

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Pretty sure we had this same message less than a month ago.

Technically he's not wrong lol.

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Originally Posted by iamflip

Same message last year, and yet not a lot has changed. :\

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There really isn't THAT terribly much they can do to stave off these constant attacks... Microsoft ended up NEGOTIATING with the attackers to get it to finally stop... that's just how bad things are right now. We have to just grit our teeth and ride it out, unfortunately.

Does this discard the rumor that it was being done with the purpose of duping or it actually backs it up?

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Originally Posted by iamflip

Same message last year, and yet not a lot has changed. :\

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Dude. From when I started, and even after I stopped playing maple? Nexon has managed to retain the same ethics and business practices. Such as these. For over 4 years.

It simply isn't enough to acknowledge an issue by itself. If you mean to show your consumer that you mean to ensure quality (or anyone in any situation, really), it takes an earnest call to action. To change those bad habits and keep it that way. It isn't easy, even moreso for Nexon because I imagine there has to be a lot of corporate jargon and mumbo jumbo yatta yatta. But, I think we can all safely agree that if Nexon put an end to this terrible practice once and for all (and keep it that way), that they, Maplestory and anyone who played it could only benefit.

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Originally Posted by byakugan

Does this discard the rumor that it was being done with the purpose of duping or it actually backs it up?

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There is a public dupe but duping and DDoSing are unrelated in this case. You wouldn't receive lag from a channel crash, which is what they need to do in order to dupe.

The saddest part about this dupe is that the market was already such pomegranate it was barely affected in the ~3 months the dupe has been around.