Players hoping to take part in the online-only beta of EA’s forthcoming World War I shooter Battlefield 1 were left frustrated for most of the day after the servers went down, preventing people from logging in.
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PoodleCorp tweeted that they’d stop DDoSing EA only when interviewed by @KEEMSTAR, one of YouTube’s biggest stars who has over 1.4 million subscribers.
This tweet was sent just a mere few hours after Battlefield 1’s beta launched as well as more about an hour after PoodleCorp’s tweet.
A DDoS is a type of online cyber attack in which the targeted website is flooded with traffic, created to overwhelm the resources of the site to crash or suspend its services.
EA said it had managed to get everything back up and running early on Thursday morning, after players were locked out for almost 24 hours-mainly from the Battlefield servers, though other EA gamers also reported outages.
This is the second DDoS attack against a games company in one week.
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Players on EA’s console servers were also booted offline last night, the hacker group once again claimed responsibility. The outage hit European servers first before spreading worldwide. As you might expect, players are already asking for the open beta to be extended, even though EA hasn’t announced when the beta will end. The American video game giant has is aware of the outage, which was reportedly the result of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, and is working to solve the issue.
