Feldon 
Daybreak Games, Servers, and Websites are once again under attack this morning as of 7:30am PST. The attack stopped at 8:00am PST and then resumed at 11:00am and has continued unabated as of 3:20pm PST. This sustained attack is being done by a different DDOS crew than the one that targeted SOE President John Smedley, and is directed towards the game H1Z1. EQ and EQ2 (and their forums and websites) being offline is just collateral damage.
NOTE: EU-based EverQuest II servers are co-located in Amsterdam, so gameplay may be possible on these servers.
Original updates after the jump…
We are continuing to resolve an outstanding technical issues which may be affecting logins. Thanks again for your patience.
— Daybreak Games (@DaybreakGames) December 31, 2015
Our Ops team is working on ferreting out the funk in all games. Sorry folks! #eq2 #everquest
— Holly Longdale (@TheWindstalker) December 30, 2015
Still working on issues. Getting alerts.
— Holly Longdale (@TheWindstalker) December 30, 2015
We are experiencing connectivity issues right now and are working to correct them. Thank you for your reports and patience.
— Daybreak Games (@DaybreakGames) December 30, 2015
Update as of 11:00am PST: Daybreak Games, Forums, etc. seem to be once again be under attack.
UPDATE as of 8:00am PST: Games, Forums, and Census seem to be responding again. Things seem to be returning to normal.
I just don’t get why people feel they need to do stuff like this. Did they have an unhappy childhood? Did they get banned for cheating? Does it make them feel bigger about themselves? Just really sad that people have to do stuff like this.
This got nothing to do with frustrated script kiddies.
The current trend of these attacks is to distract the IT Staff while they hack their way into databases.
2016 is expected to get worst….
Quite literally: Because that CAN. That’s it.
“UPDATE as of 8:00am: Games, Forums, and Census seem to be responding again. Things seem to be returning to normal.”
Just tried making a new character to see what servers are really up… and I’m only seeing 4. tried to make a new char on one of those 4….. Fail… TLE server is up tho.
Hey Feldon, since yesterday this guy https://twitter.com/TheProxseas is claiming, the target is H1Z1 not really eq2, or eq games. But since they share the servers and belongs to daybreak they suffer too.
Yup… Bigtime hackers here…using Windows 7 and a Command Prompt…
the reason for the attacks seems to be to promote their own ddos protection service. they seem to think that by bringing us down, they can force all of the games to employ them. this is coming from the creator of aura stresser – https://aurastresser.com/.
would a class action lawsuit help? i don’t know. worth a try. I reported them to twitter and to the fbi. but since they are not based in the usa, i don’t know what we can do to help.
Severs are more than likely all connected if they hit it just right they get them all.
Darn. Does this mean we can’t blame Smedley?
It is not returning to normal yet. Still can’t see any of my toons on Halls of Fate. 🙁
I got booted about two hours ago from Halls of Fate, haven’t been able to get back in at all.
At 11:15 CST I saw this on the forums:
Status: 12/30/2015 8:58 PST – EQ2 Halls of Fate is currently down for maintenance.
No indication as to why and so far I don’t see any dev posts explaining anything further.
check the twitter from eq2 – EverQuest II Retweeted
Daybreak Games @DaybreakGames 2h2 hours ago
We are experiencing connectivity issues right now and are working to correct them. Thank you for your reports and patience.
and
EverQuest II @everquestii 28m28 minutes ago
The EQ2 team would like to offer our thanks and appreciation to our fans, and our legendary player community! http://ow.ly/Wj5nr
It seems that with the amount of money that we pay for every aspect of the game, the talent that we have in tech and design that there would be a way to stop these childish pranks. I think tougher hacking laws should be in place through out the world. These hackers run through foreign country i.p.’s where there is no law against hacking and get away with it. If anyone wants to start an organization to combat this…I have my ball bat and I’m ready to join.
A DDOS attack doesn’t involve any hacking and is very hard to prevent. Put simply, it just involves making so many connections to a site/address that it overloads and crashes. Much like when EQ2 was at its height – servers went down after a big update when everyone tries to log back in at once & they couldn’t cope with the load.
The problem comes in how you determine genuine users attempting to connect (could be just to read a website, not even log in to something) and those that are malicious – they essentially look the same.
They can’t even afford proper CS. You think they should have a anti-cyber team?
You can’t fix stupid, and DDOS types are about as stupid as they get. :\ They can’t hack, and they have no friends/life, so they try to make others unhappy by interrupting their playtime (using programs and strategies designed by someone else, of course). Just your typical playground bully.
They probably got their asses (or ass) handed to them and threw a baby tantrum the way they heard other online assholes did in a “If I can’t be happy, no one can play with this toy either” fashion. :\
I’d be embarrassed to be associated with them… but I guess no one has to worry about that since, as I said, they most likely have no friends or social life out side of garnering attention like this. :\
Hope that ISPs will start implementing BCP38 after 13 years.
http://www.bcp38.info/index.php/Main_Page
Well when the Netherlands allows a guy with over 50 cyber crimes get away with it why would anyone else not try? That aside, STEAM had some issues over the Christmas Holiday as well so not limited to DBG
There’s no evidence that the Steam thing was caused externally – seems to have been a caching issue caused by a change they made themselves if you actually look into it. Who knows for sure, but the explanation makes perfect sense if you understand how Steam and it’s partners function together.
OK, I stand corrected now 🙂
Except that Steam have now claimed that the change they made was in order to deal with a DDOS attack.
One of the problems these days is distinguishing between the genuine “we’ve been hit by a DDOS attack” and the false “we screwed up so let’s blame it on a DDOS attack” reports.
Yeah Netherlands court gave the guy deferred adjudication (a cakewalk version of Probation) with full internet access. W T F?
Yeah it was totally jacked Feldon. I hope they work this out. All the things these people could be expending their energy on and they choose gaming companies and gaming sales sites.
Wouldn’t ir be nice if Judges/lawyers could be held accountable for their failures? The justice system might not be such a joke if that were the case.
Add 11:00PST to that DDOS list — just got dropped from Maj’Dul with same situation as last night.
So tired of crap like this. 🙁
Me too. I’m getting sick of
this companythese DDoSers because of shet like this.It is not the company’s fault. It is piss ants who need to feel big about themselves by messing with others. Break there fingers and let them try and hack.
Actually I’m sick of the miscreants causing troubles like this for me and DBG. It’s not DBG at fault here.
It appears they are down again as of 1:04pm CST
I was on Maj’Dul….got booted….typical
When are these idiots at Daybreak finally going to learn they need to move their assets and spread them out? They need to think of their company as Pearl Harbor.
It looks like the attack is affecting u.eq2wire.com as well. Trying to look up some stuff and some resources don’t load. (I’m guessing they are dynamic from the census?)
e.g. http://u.eq2wire.com/collection/detail/3708770476
That’s been happening on and off for at least a year. It’s been smooth since ToT launch, at least until now.
Yes EQ2U requires Census to be working.
Aura Stresser @aura_stresser 7m7 minutes ago
Aura Stresser Retweeted Daybreak Games
GET FUCKING REKT
Aura Stresser added,
Daybreak Games @DaybreakGames
We are aware of current connectivity issues and are working to resolve them. Thanks for your patience.
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Aura Stresser @aura_stresser 11m11 minutes ago
LOL #h1z1 IS GETTING FUCKING #SMACKED
@H1Z1game @H1Z1News @H1Z1Forum #h1z1
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This is someone who prob got killed over and over in h1z1 and is mad. This is the definition of a looser.
or someone who was cheating and got banned…….I’ve only been on a couple days and keep seeing all the cheating ban sweeps they are doing.
Yeah same thing as last night, servers and forums/website are up and down. Looks like the H1Z1 thing (attack) is indeed affecting EQ2.
Probably because the idiots instigating the attack are too stupid and untalented to actually hit their target – they just cluster bomb the entire server farm — not talent.
Yeah, they are idiots. They have far too much time on their hands. This is my daily leisure time, and what did we as subscribers do to these people to deserve being blocked from doing something we like just for their own misguided amusement?
Maybe these people need to find a member of the opposite sex and have some fun rather than spoil ours!
Or maybe a snail or slug since they’re all worms. LOL
>.> We females have this thing called “standards”… you really think some DDOS asswipe could attract one of us? o.0
The girls that go for the bad guys.
“Bad guys” does not necessarily equal dumb as dirt script kiddies.
True. Girls do tend to favor personal hygiene.
the “bad guys” tend to have motorcycles and guitars, not mom’s basement and translucent skin. >.>
I’m not sure I understand the point of view. It doesn’t hurt Daybreak to do an attack like this. They’ve received their money and will most likely continue to do so. Its the player base who gets hammered. I guess that doesn’t matter to someone who just wishes to terrorize and destroy though. To them it doesn’t matter who gets attacked as long as the person doing the attacking is entertained for the moment?
Actually I’m surprised they haven’t targetted Blizzard. That would get even more people annoyed at them, which seems to be what causes them joy.
Every minute a service is down some amount of users take their business elsewhere from then on. It hurts DBG, maybe little, maybe a lot.
It keeps saying stormhold on tle is up but, when try to launch get the error page.
The game server is up, it is the login server being attacked
Why don’t these people just leave the game sites alone? I mean are there not better things to do with their time?
Been playing EQ2 since 2005 . This is really getting annoying, hope 2016 gets better.
My bad, makes sense, DDOS attacks are pretty much impossible to stop I’m learning. I know you all will do the best you can and as quickly as you can. Hang in there, I’m rooting for you.
Yeah, getting Launchpad can’t connect with EQ2 and not able to auth on the EQ2 forums.
I was hoping to get some EQ2 time in today but I guess I’ll do something else until this passes over.
I believe we should get a month free of charge for this crap… Come on Daybreak, Sony had problems, but nothing like this.
Seriously?
Huh? Sony nothing like this? Where have you been?
Of course they should. And McDonald’s should give me free food for a month because there is 3 feet of snow outside and I can’t drive there right now.
This is not DBG fault
Actually is is DB’s fault. They consolidate all of their servers and websites so that one attack and wipe everything out. That’s called stupidity.
The consolidations did not cause a single wipe. First of all login servers were always one server, secondly it happened with SOE as well long before consolidations. We all really need to stop blaming a company because of morons causing DDoS that’s like blaming the bank for being robbed so they have no cash on hand.
I don’t really like DBG, ok I like them hardly at all however this isn’t their fault
There has been sustained server and network lag before this incidence, nothing new. How do you actually know that it is not daybreak’s fault, are you working there and have internal knowledge? The reason of the attack could be related to events we are unaware of. Hard to tell the truth unless you get hold of persons responsible which even then must be truthful. Most of the stories are unapproved theories.
It’s not a theory, it is an official statement from the company and you don’t need internal knowledge for common sense. The fact they reported that this was an attack will now require an investigation into who and where this came from requiring man hours and money. If they did indeed cry fowl in order to hide a slip up from inside, the company would be in a lot of hot water and legal ramifications..
Amaitae,
If you don’t like the confirmed FACTS we report on EQ2Wire, you don’t have to read it.
4:20pm Denver – cannot log into the network – error 4-503.
My inner child is not happy 😥
DCUO is being affected as well it seems
All Daybreak games are on one server cluster, so yeah.
All Daybreak games use the same Authentication server and thus they just have to attack the one Auth server to take down all games. The Actual game servers themselves have different IP’s and I have no trouble accessing them, its the fact that you cant authenticate that is screwing things up. Another good reason to NEVER put multiple games Auth Server as the same IP and server. This would not be an issue if each game had its own Auth server with the same Seed server
I will agree that Daybreak’s authentication system is beyond antiquated.
nothing like this you cant remember the month of no service when sony was hacked 💡 💡
I play a lot of games but i only ever hear about these attacks effect SoE/Daybreak
Rift/Trion Worlds, Blizzard, SOE, and most gaming companies last year when LizardSquad wanted to ruin Christmas for everyone, claiming people should be spending time with their families and not in a game. Also, Blizzard a couple of years ago when some kid got mad that he kept getting killed in some shitty blizzard game. Starcraft because some kids pro gamer lost a competition. “I only ever hear about these attacks effect SoE/Daybreak” just means these are the only ones you bother to read about
True but doesnt it seem to happen to SoE.Daybreak way more often or is it because i dont really follow those other games as much lol
they were so bad on wow it was taking 8 hrs to log in
Beside I blame the ranger
They have too much time on their hands AND they know that a lot of players are off work due to holidays & school. I don’t think they want to hurt Daybreak, I think they want to make the players angry. As someone else mentioned, it looks to me like they got their butts kicked all over the place in H1Z1 so now they’re “getting back” at those players by DDoSing the server cluster. Poor babies, I guess it’s just way too difficult to try to improve your game? I hope they get caught & have all their internet access removed. Like, forever.
4.44 PM PST.. means I go home in 15 minutes… Is it fixed yet? huh huh? anyone able to log in? I know. probably TV with the husband tonight. Oh joy
Poor husband 😆
If you go into where your game files are & click the light blue .exe for EQII, you can bypass the launcher & get in. It’s VERY laggy though.
Some People have No Lives unless they are making others miserable Give Me 5 Min with 1 Of These Hacker Morons in a room alone Please
Can you ddos attack a ddos attack or would the space time continuum be damaged?
Seems like a good target for drone strikes.
XD I approve this message! Cleanse the genepool and society! Bomb assholes and bullies out of existence for the sake of future generations!
Lol! As long as the two never touch its ok
Okay so 20 meg file in eq2 file worked for EQ2 …what about EQ.
I’m fishing in Everfrost Peaks and need to get on with it for FF quest.
What file do I look for in EQ (original game) parent folder to bypass the launcher ? Anyone ?
I saw this being discussed in an EQ Twitch stream. You can bypass the EQ1 patcher by creating a shortcut to eqgame.exe and adding the command parameters: patchme /login:charname
So the full command would look something like this …
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Daybreak Game Company\Installed Games\EverQuest\eqgame.exe” patchme /login:charname
By the way, the quotes around the path to eqgame.exe should be included, and charname should be your actual character’s name that you want to login with.
The apparent attacker was boasting yesterday about the attack from Twitter @aura_stresser ~~ Apparently, Twitter shut them down there, now the boasts are coming from @TheProxseas
Why on earth does every frakkin script kiddie target EQ2? Moreover, why hasn’t DBG started utilizing the services of one of the several companies that provide protection vs. DDOS?
I just wanna play!
I guess it all depends on how daybreak handles the attack. I personally got a boost in ps2 to add to the holiday hat boost and if my time runs out while I can’t even play I’d be just as annoyed with daybreak as i am with the attackers