Despite our security measures, we have been working around the clock to mitigate the impact of an ongoing denial-of-service attack on our Battlefield 3 game infrastructure over the last several days. While the motives are unclear, the focus of the attack has been interference with network communications preventing access to multiplayer gameplay. At this point, no user data is involved. We share your frustration about the impact this has had to our service and the ability for many of you to play Battlefield 3. We are working tirelessly to mitigate the problem.
As a part of our efforts to resolve these issues, we’ve conducted rolling restarts of Battlefield infrastructure servers to apply some updates. Thank you for your patience and support while we work to get everyone back and playing Battlefield 3 as soon as possible. More updates to come.
Wash Washburne wrote on May 9, 2013, 12:01:
"While the motives are unclear(...)"
I would love to hear their motive, I bet it would go something like this:
EA stop being douochy to the gamers and please veer back to the proper path of righteous developers or we shall turn your servers into a liquid shayt!!
InBlack wrote on May 9, 2013, 09:18:I love bashing EA as much as the next guy, but that's clearly not the case. Their infrastructure was able to handle the launch of BF3 and its expansion packs, when the number of players would be far greater than it currently is.
Since this is DICE and EA, I have some trouble believing that a DoS attack is keeping their servers down for a 'couple' of days. Im thinking that their infrastucture was poorly operated and the whole thing came crashing down and now they are fixing it and invented this DoS bullshit so they dont end up looking bad.
Tanto Edge wrote on May 9, 2013, 11:48:
lol
It came full circle. Used to be games on DOS, now it's DoS on games.
TurdFergasun wrote on May 9, 2013, 14:11:
this must be one of EA's added value decisions like centralizing all servers so that it's much easier for DDOS attacks to be effective. Good work EA on stopping all that hacking too, since having control over the hosting has stopped that completely as well. Whats your share price again?