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Is true he has to pay to do these attacks? @Stinky Pete
He likely pays a subscription, probably $20 to $50 a month.
He gets players and shard owners to pay him to stop. I know of one shard owner who paid him like $300 to go away.
Imagine choosing to DDOS MMORPG servers, that's what you choose to do with your life. In 50 years time the person(s) involved may be on their death beds, recollecting this ******** digital siege.
Destabilising game servers. Lord, give me strength.
Destabilising game servers. Lord, give me strength.
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I'm still unsure this is all related... cuz when was the last time the shard went down this much and during a scheduled server migration too? I've seen those trolls claiming it was them in discord but like there's also many trolls in gen chat everyday saying a bunch of none sense. I've only seen bad crashing and reverts during big idocs as of late and I have my theories on that one cuz a certain idocer that seems to find himself on top when it's the case...
I was just on ATL about 10 minutes, then *poof* disconnected, so then back again and on again. Was at about 7:15 pm CT. I gather he must have just finished flipping hamburgers at McDonald's and now back home again to start harassing us. A juvenile delinquent, who does not care if he gets his family in trouble. Who else would do this? Definitely not a good thing during fighting in the invasions in the game. So will call it a night for now at least. This takes the cake.
Sneaky said been fighting him a year..
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Anyone else having trouble with the official forums this morning. Page isn’t loading at all after being slow to start.
Worked for me just now.
I only connected now but everything works ok
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it was hanging up and not loading for a few minutes and then started working again. Thank you.
is this a daytime only thing?
i was on last night for a couple hours and had no issues whatsoever (all shards)
a guild mate has been on Origin all week and said he had no issues - im guessing since it is already on the new cloud server?
i was on last night for a couple hours and had no issues whatsoever (all shards)
a guild mate has been on Origin all week and said he had no issues - im guessing since it is already on the new cloud server?
On Atlantic we start dancing again??????
And tonight Atlantic flies away too. Is it possible that this happens every day? And only with Atlantic? Is there really nothing that can be done?
Everyone go to massivelyop.com and ask them to look into the ddos attacks
I played a bit last night on Europa doing Nujel'm invasion, not long enough to gauge stability but I encountered no issues. Hopefully it stays strong today.
It's a historical attack? And it is attacks! and we all know I believe in acknowledgement and accountability not please be patient..
What is the outcome you’re hoping to get from doing that?
They report on it and then what?
I don’t think it’ll change anything that they’re not already doing.
I think it's the developers responsibility to communicate with the player base?
Im not disagreeing, but I don’t see how getting massivelyop to report on this is going to change that.
I think most people by now know what is occurring despite the vague response from the devs. (Again I agree this doesn’t absolve them from reporting it). I just don’t see how massively reporting on it will help.
Because it's easy for Mesanna to be herself in the dark
Well, sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who still has problems
If no one spoke up you would never know it was still happening.
Yeah, only if we had a way of somehow getting Mesanna accountable. It's my humble opinion her personality is the sole reason UO has been going down the drain for the last 7-8 years.
I agree with you, if we can get some publicity on this issue, it will be easier for some higher up to step in and put someone with better skills in charge.
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I continue to write when Atlantic goes away. It's already been 5 minutes and there's an invasion in Skara.
Atlantic hasn't returned yet and now Europa is missing too. I think I speak for many. We're a little tired of this situation......
Atlantic hasn't returned yet and now Europa is missing too. I think I speak for many. We're a little tired of this situation......
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AWS Shield Advanced overview - AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Shield Advanced
AWS Shield Advanced is a managed service that helps you protect your application against external threats, like DDoS attacks, volumetric bots, and vulnerability exploitation attempts. For higher levels of protection against attacks, you can subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced.
docs.aws.amazon.com
They have been using AWS for a while now. Even before the migration to the new hardware.
At this point, one of the following must be true:
- They lack the know-how to properly integrate AWS shield advanced to their servers.
- They don't want to pay for AWS shield advanced because it would lower their profit margin.
I can't think of any other explanation.
AWS shield advanced is a proven DDOS solution with proven track record of success. It is able to mitigate OSI layer 3 and layer 4 attacks.
Since both the game servers and AWS shield instances are hosted on the same AWS data center, the additional lag should be reasonable.
All of that being said, right now UO has 4 people. If what I read online is right then they are not very knowledgeable about technical stuff.
No wonder a script kiddie is able to take down all of their servers for 2-3 weeks now.
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They should just pay some professional services costs for a aws security guy to configure it.AWS Shield Advanced overview - AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Shield Advanced
AWS Shield Advanced is a managed service that helps you protect your application against external threats, like DDoS attacks, volumetric bots, and vulnerability exploitation attempts. For higher levels of protection against attacks, you can subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced.
They have been using AWS for a while now. Even before the migration to the new hardware.
At this point, one of the following must be true:
- They lack the know-how to properly integrate AWS shield advanced to their servers.
- They don't want to pay for AWS shield advanced because it would lower their profit margin.
I can't think of any other explanation.
AWS shield advanced is a proven DDOS solution with proven track record of success. It is able to mitigate OSI layer 3 and layer 4 attacks.
Since both the game servers and AWS shield instances are hosted on the same AWS data center, the additional lag should be reasonable.
All of that being said, right now UO has 4 people:
No wonder a script kiddie is able to take down all of their servers for 2-3 weeks now.
- Mesanna, no higher education, no engineering skills. Previous job experience is answering the phones as a customer service.
- Mesanna's husband, no higher education, no engineering skills. Previous job experience is god knows what.
- Kyronix, no higher education, no engineering skills. Previous job experience is being a GM.
- The other dev, I don't know much about this guy. If I'm not mistaken, he was a fresh hire out of school.
They probably need to go cap in hand to EA for funds, and I don’t suppose they want to put their heads above the parapet and show them how incompetent they are being taken out by a kid.
I don't think Garriott alone is good enough. We also need Starr Long.Still ongoing then.
Someone maybe interested
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My company provides that service. We actually employ one of the best security guy I have ever seen and I attended black hat in Las Vegas before. So it's very hard to impress me when it comes to network security. Admittedly, we mostly focus on OSI layer 5, 6, and 7 but this type of AWS shield advanced integration or any kind of integration with a DDOS mitigation service is something we can easily do.
Normally, I would not mind doing it free of charge for a game I enjoy playing.
With that being said, there is a lot of bad blood between me and UO and there is no way in hell I would do it for our narcissist in control even if they decide to pay triple the hourly rate. Also, I did not hear about UO/Broadsword hiring external consultants in the past. I don't think that is something they do often.
Edit: They just closed multiple topics discussing this on the official forums. So, I doubt this is going to be solved anytime soon. In the meantime, come join us at New World MMO. The season 7 is starting tomorrow. It is a blast although the end game is a bit lacking. I'm 400 hours in and I still enjoy it daily.
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So 2 Nepo Babies, one guy who tries, but obviously can't do it all alone and the one guy who actually does the code work? Sadly that sounds like every tech related company these days, especially in the gaming sphere. Not at all discounting you or your companies work, just seems to be the actual state of affairs we find ourselves in all too often these days.AWS Shield Advanced overview - AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Shield Advanced
AWS Shield Advanced is a managed service that helps you protect your application against external threats, like DDoS attacks, volumetric bots, and vulnerability exploitation attempts. For higher levels of protection against attacks, you can subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced.
All of that being said, right now UO has 4 people. If what I read online is right then they are:
No wonder a script kiddie is able to take down all of their servers for 2-3 weeks now.
- Mesanna, no higher education, no engineering skills. Previous job experience is answering the phones as a customer service.
- Mesanna's husband, no higher education, no engineering skills. Previous job experience is god knows what.
- Kyronix, no higher education, no engineering skills. Previous job experience is being a GM.
- The other dev, I didn't read much about this guy. If I'm not mistaken, he was a fresh hire out of school.
Edited to be fair to Kyronix. From everything I've seen, he at least tries. The only time I ever seen Mesanna is when she's lecturing/screaming at the player base.
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I have lost conn at least 20 times in the last 20 minutes on ATL. This situation is TOTALLY unacceptable!!!
Go start another thread!Closing multiple topics on the official forums with no updates from them?
Why is this closed? I just connected and was surprised.... Atlantic isn't there. I've said it and I do it, every time I realize it I write. Block me on the forum but what is happening is unacceptable and unacceptable.
They closed multiple on official forum
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Let's hope not. If Garriot was a such a great game manager, his post-UO titles would have been more successful. That's not to take away from what he founded with Origin Systems, but I think UO would be closer to the end under his management than under the current leadership.Still ongoing then.
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Well again, what do you think would change not being in the dark?
Nothing, we all know what is going on. Some like to complain about anything they can. How does complaining help then solve the issue?
Do I need to copy and paste what needs to be said and done?