Shortly after the 7.2 version of "Eternal Seeker" of Final Fantasy 14 was launched, North American and European servers encountered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

As a new chapter in the expansion pack of "The End of the Moon", version 7.2 was originally planned to gradually release a large amount of content over several weeks.The 10GB patch on PC that was updated on March 25 includes a new main mission, a new level of Arcadia's zero-type high difficulty, and major career adjustments - the Dark Magician and Painting Mage have received key changes, and the AOE skills of professions such as Knight, Mechanic, and Dancer have also been fine-tuned.

According to the official announcement of Square Enix, the server was attacked three hours after completing full-day maintenance (before 7 a.m. Eastern Time).Players in North America's "Aether" and European "Chaos" often encounter delays and disconnections.DDoS attacks are used to send massive amounts of fake data packets to achieve the purpose of paralyzing servers, just like congested highways causing traffic stagnation.

Although technicians can mitigate the impact of attacks, there is no eradication plan, and players may still encounter intermittent connection problems.This is not the only MMORPG that has been attacked recently - the nostalgic server of World of Warcraft was also attacked this month, and Blizzard had to revise some of the characters who died due to DDoS attacks.Although the Final Fantasy 14 server also went down in January this year, the developer has not announced the response plan for this incident.