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The DDoS attack resulted in an eerily empty Limsa Lominsa, free of the usual afk-ers. Screenshot by Dot Esports<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Normally, DDoS attacks on FF14<\/em> are limited to one region\u2014a global service interruption is the largest-scale DDoS attack the game has been hit with since the massive DDoS spree in late 2018. For North American players, this will be the first DDoS-related outage since August 2022. So far, it looks like players are having trouble logging in or staying logged in for more than a few minutes before getting hit with connection error 90002, making it impossible to complete any instanced duties.\u00a0<\/p>