WTF is going on ?

wtf is this ? first i had a DC for an hour every 5 mins. i couldnt enter my own HO because of failed instance. lost 2 maps. now i cant play for shit while constantly have jumps in ping from 60 to 3000 ms in maps

You're not alone, I've been playing for years and never experienced such consistently terrible server issues. NZ and AU realm are completely dead and impossible to play on currently.

I'm honestly in awe GGG haven't updated us on what is going on, crafting or even trading items right now simply isn't possible right now due to the risk of roll backs. Maps get deleted as soon as you open them.

Please GGG, we just want to play the game.

You want more bad news?

Server issues never left in my end, which means whatever the reason is, it's always there never solved just not equally on all servers, suggests GGG does not know the reason at all, so don't expect a solution, it might happen but huh, slim chance.

The DDos explanation, well, how can you tell it's a DDos? You can't, all you know is your servers got massive amount of requests that flooded the bandwidth, GGG do not own servers, they rent servers from those who provide service, being the biggest one in the genre and has Tencent backing up financially, if it is a ddos on the provider they could just switch service to another and avoid, which didn't happen, so you can bet good money on those requests are not on the physical server, but in game thru POE clients on the virtual server. Could those be malware masked as clients or using the client as malware? Possible, but then you can just log the client token ID and ban the associated accounts right? That didn't happen either

So my point is, it is more likely something went terrible wrong with the game itself, something make every client generate way too many request for the server to respond, which from the server end looks just like a DDos, it's player client normal playing the game causing the "ddos" and that's not a solvable problem unless you rollback whatever the script made that a problem, I bet it's the pausing mechanic, they must write in rules to monitor connection statues and ask the server to react instantly.

Just been hit on the AU/NZ servers. Spikes up to 200+ then back down constantly to be, well, spikes. Going to Singapore server, 90 ping but it's consistent. It's the middle of the day so most people would be at work.

In towns on AU/NZ it's perfectly fine, but then going into the field it's horrendous. What's weirder is opening Resource Manager and finding PoE in it, and checking the latency-- it's a consistent, normal ping but putting the window side by side the in-game ping continues spiking like crazy while the latency in Resource Monitor is fine.
Even opening cmd to ping the two remote addresses are fine.

Though on occasion, getting an error for connecting to the Achievement Server and the PvP list. Why do I need to connect to the pvp list in a map lol

The game is currently unplayable.

Same. D/c every 5 mins.

The servers are totally bricked. instance crashes and all portals lost. not safe to run any content

I don't know what's going on, but I feel sorry for the people who bought support packs.
...the excuses , the "DDOS" Attacks, old news, sick of that BS.

How is it always someone new s**t with GGG, How sorry they are for the poor service, bla, bla.

Have lost 5x T16 maps today, finishing my 115 is taking forever! Why don't maps stay there after a DC??

yeah ive lost so many maps today to this trash but yet i can sit in the hideout for ages with no drop out then i run a map and boop kicked out a roll back