Comment by denkmoon
3 months ago
Mad salt. Imagine a fully grown man having a toddler tantrum. "If I can't play/win/get my way, nobody can" type mentality. It's also a method of coercion. Give me mod status or I'll DDOS your server and destroy your community.
The other half comes from sever operators ddosing their competition. There is a lot of money to be made from paid cosmetics, ranks, moderator (demi-tyrant) status, etc on custom servers.
"Game servers" also doesn't just mean Timmy's Minecraft server. It's big commercial games.
Final Fantasy XIV keeps getting hammered, likely Aisuru, off and on since at least September.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/6b56814...
For some scale, Final Fantasy XIV makes about $65 million in annual revenue (and decreasing).
According to their latest financial earnings on page 11 of https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/library/pdf/25q4slides... they made 55.5 billion yen or about $357 million. So quite a bit more revenue than $65 million
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>There is a lot of money to be made from paid cosmetics, ranks, moderator (demi-tyrant) status, etc on custom servers.
Anyone have any idea how much a 15 Tbps DDoS attack would cost?
Thousands of dollars? Tens of thousands?
Ballpark math says you could sustain it for half an hour on Hetzner for $5k-$6k (only from 1500 IPs though), at least if your account didn't get banned first and you're halfway decent at network programming. I have no idea what a proper botnet like this costs though or how large the profit margins are.
Isn't the idea behind botnets that no one is paying for the bandwidth, besides the unsuspecting random people who have fallen victim to malware?
I'd imagine the pricing is quite disconnected from the price of "legitimate" bandwidth. But I don't know in what direction.
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back in '98 i got a 100mb per download limit for $100 on my cable connection. i recall getting DoS'd by someone cause i was a lpb barstard in quake tf. They were kind though, only DoS'd me 90mb as a warning.... Years later, TF2 is getting DoS'd into oblivion, an extorhted by DDoS for hire. Some things change, some things stay the same.
I'm old enough to remember this site called kuro5hin, and how it folded a bit after it got DoS'd to death around 2000
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I'm wagering something cheap for individual with a lot of bitcoin or crypto laying around
On my childhood I had a colleague were when him lose a match against me or my brother, him got mad and fire the joystick to the ground.
Games continue beyond the Games themselves...
When I moderated a busy gaming forum long ago my most horrifying discovery was how many users I thought were children ... were very much "adults" by age.
What you are saying fits perfectly well in minecraft communities.
Are you mentioning the minecraft community by your message or any other gaming communities too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(malware) came from Minecraft community.
Also just peacocking, being that skid on the forums that took down PlayStation on Christmas will get you cred.