Comment by arkh
9 hours ago
> What's the benefit of taking down an online game for a couple of hours.
Competitive MMO. Imagine some event is setup to start at some time and your guild or alliance knows they're gonna lose it and the resource it gives: DDOS the server so it's down during the event so it does not run. Enjoy the fact you kept the asset linked to said event and sell the resources you get for real money.
If you've never played those kind of games you cannot fathom how cutthroat they can become. I'm part of a guild which has a specific intelligence branch with spies embedded in many other guilds and that's playing nice because we're not selling anything.
EVE Online had to put their foot down when people were talking about what could easily be considered terrorism.
Please tell us more, I need to hear the story!
The story goes that they were talking about figuring our where someone lived and cutting the power to their house so their ship would be defenceless.
You might be taking a game a bit too seriously if the FBI show up to have a chat.