In a blog post on the FF14 site, Square Enix says North American players may experience disconnections, as well as difficulty logging into the servers. 'We are looking into the way attacks are being made and taking countermeasures.'

'We are currently experiencing connection issues related to ongoing DDoS attacks targeting the North American data center,' wrote Square Enix on the Final Fantasy 14 English Twitter account. But Square Enix released a statement not long after that confirmed it was a crash caused by a determined DDoS attack. Once the server went down, a thread sprung up immediately on Reddit, theorizing it was due to the time of day, as people would be logging on pretty soon at the end of the work or school day. FFXIV is an online game, which runs on servers located in different parts of the world. But also online was a DDoS barrage, slowing down and eventually crashing the North American FF14 data center. Is there something you think we should be reporting on? Email have been steadily making their way online today to play the pre-order early access of Final Fantasy 14's newest expansion, Shadowbringers.

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