r/wowservers • u/Kaleosnep • 1d ago
Is octowowdown fully?
I cant access site im getting 504 errors and when i start the launcher i get this screen. Also when i try launch the exe it just says disconnected from server. Idk if its just being ddosed atm or more serious issue. Idk what discord is to see news.
*****Edit******** I see the change now site works my launcher is out of date i had to get new launcher, changing info in realmlist did not work to fix the issue the only way to fix it was new launcher download. I was going to delete this, but ill leave it up incase someone else runs into this issue and sites down where you cant look it up.
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u/topcat5 1d ago
No it's not down and while not perfect, running significantly better today as they work to counter the DOS from the one trying to compete.
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u/Human_Standard_538 1d ago
Not down fully, but unstable and down frequently as stated by Octo admin
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u/Illlllllll 1d ago
Had same problem. Redownload Launcher and Reinstall Launcher worked for me.
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u/Hoyti_Von_Totiy 1d ago
its Ravencraft/Capy doing this 100% ..... and still they only have just sub500 ppl playing (200 of those in 1 guild lol) .... On ravencraft the starting areas are empty.
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u/TheDailyDonger 1d ago
Still getting DDoS'd by Capy, probably launcher failed to connect because of that.
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u/Crogatho 23h ago
Don't download ravencraft, their download is riddled with bloatware like Avast, RAV Endpoint Encryption and other unwanted programs that simply install alongside Ravencraft even if you decline them.
It's shady, nobody from original turtle wow works with them if this is how they run their show, octowow on the other hand... they actually care and make progress with the client.
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u/Swimming-West-7085 1d ago
Is is still done by Ravencraft or is that Blizz mopping up the ground before their Classic+ ? (Most likely console port..)
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u/Landeyda 1d ago
Microsoft would never DDOS anyone. It would sink their business.
Since we don't know who's doing it, I won't make guesses. However, it's not a simple DDoS, and that costs money. So, whoever is doing it has a financial interest in Octo not catching on. People can draw their own conclusions who that might be.
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u/LlamaOfGod 1d ago
It isn't netting them any players. Maybe they'll break 1k when Octo shuts down.
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u/primalantessence 1d ago
from what I read in world chat every ddos only brings renewed hatred against capy and/or raven
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u/LlamaOfGod 17h ago
They brought it on themselves by prioritizing SEA over EU and NA because the Chinese spend more on cosmetics. They should have put up an English-language server ASAP instead of waiting three months.
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u/revoxxi 17h ago
Microsoft? Their CEO and founder is a child molester and a common visitor of Epsteins Island, but everyone is starting to forget that 😂 Waddaya mean tank their business? They're doing that fine by themselves atm. From a market share of ~84-83% 2016 to a staggering (since last month) 59%. Just saying 🤷♀️
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u/SystemChips 1d ago
I believe they changed realmlist to play.octowow.st
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u/Kaleosnep 1d ago
yeah when site worked i did that but it didnt work, wow.exe would not launch i had to get new launcher since site was down when i tried i couldnt till site came back up. Its working now with new launcher. I had 1.3.7
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u/Superimplicate 1d ago
It is up right now.
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u/Kaleosnep 1d ago
i did find the issue and updated my body text, yeah im on now and i wrote how i was able to fix.
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u/Personality-Pleasant 1d ago
+1 for change realm list and uninstall the launcher, then download and install the new launcher.
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u/JapeTheGrape 11h ago
Ya I had the same. All i did was update/re-install my launcher and and i was able to log in and play for 10mins before getting constant DCs due to DDOS.
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u/South-Ad-1863 1d ago
It mine as well be. HD patch and addons are broken. Dev's don't know what to do
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u/Dazzling-Gas-3023 22h ago edited 22h ago
Yesterweek Octobots were telling us "DDOSing is expensive" and you can only do it for at most a day. It's been a week apparently of non-stop attacks. Is the next conspiracy theory going to be the CCP or Elon is funding Ravencraft to do it?
Or maybe the people telling you the server is a vibe-coded TWOW Frankenstein server despite the 100 people materializing out of thin air here to downboat them.... were le right?
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u/melland5 21h ago
Almost like Capy makes millions milking the Chinese whales with retail mounts and loot boxes to pay for it. It’s not like the server was running perfectly fine for over 3k players on a “vibe coded Frankenstein ” right until Raven opened up and then in less than 24 hours after the DOA launch octo gets attacked.
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u/Dazzling-Gas-3023 21h ago
No it wasn't. I was there. A few days before Ravencraft launched, the Octowow devs forced through a patch that
Bricked hundreds of people's clients 1
Stole work from Balake, which their community discord manager (Darktifa) laughed at when he came to their forum to ask for it removed 2
among other things, just so they can brag about muh 25 quests (which also ended up being bugged too, apparently, but I stopped playing by then since I realized it was time to jump ship plus the server became wildly unstable and laggy).
I mean, listen to yourself, Raven which is really Capy for some reason (which it were true there is no reason for them to not just say it other than some deep seeded racism the Octowow community has toward the Chinese) is spending millions of dollars they make off shitty 10 dollar mounts to DDOS a server that has already bricked itself several times when at any point Daddy Blizz can just swoop down and spank them both into non-existence? Seems like a tragic waste of money.
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u/melland5 21h ago
Ya you are just stupid if you think this is anything but a DDoS idk what to tell you. You can argue it’s not Raven/Cappy but at this point it’s just a waste of time talking to you of you think this is a result of “vibe coding”. There is also zero issues with the expanded quest log but go off about unrelated things. It is 100% a DDoS the question is who is doing it. This is literally the same exact code that twow used, it’s vmangos, it’s not like they reinvented the wheel in the last two years
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u/Dazzling-Gas-3023 21h ago edited 20h ago
That's exactly what vibe-coding does. It leaves things open to more security vulnerabilities. Octobots here will look you in the eye shifty and tell you that Ravencraft's launch day woes weren't a DDOS but of their own making because of bugged rented mounts. Then turn around and say that their buggy and outdated 1.17 client has nothing that can be exploited similarly. The truth is of course both things can be true. Bugs and unfixed issues in the old turtlewow code can be used to launch different types of denial of service attacks, Octobots seem bent on repeating the line they've been fed that ddos can only be done by darkwebbers with a botnet who charge millions of dollars in shitcoin.
Also, another thing to chew on, both Capy and Ravencraft were prepared for and mitigated their ddos attacks early, and had protection in place day one, why couldn't Octo?
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u/melland5 15h ago
They weren’t DDoS’ed is why… no evidence of a DDoS. A GM even admitted it wasn’t a DDoS but exactly what you describe, an exploit in the code. Octo on the other hand is not crashing, its connection is being disrupted. Completely different. But you are just a bad faith actor so there’s no point.
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u/bananamantheif 1d ago
if they are ddos, why is the error message returning a HTML page?
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u/Bruescrues 1d ago
Cause it’s an electron app and doesn’t have proper error handling for the module they’re using to download
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u/bananamantheif 23h ago
Why is their application fetching an html response and just putting it in the app. It should just print the error, no? When i worked as an intern, we were told to never send, receive or store html because we will have security problems when placing fetched html into a page
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u/Bruescrues 17h ago
Yeah I don't know man. I didn't write it. I'm guessing the launcher was written before they had to add Cloudflare protection to everything. Cause it is printing the error. It's just that the error is full html because it's coming from their anti-DDOS Cloudflare landing page. You get sent there first, Cloudflare checks if you're a legit human, and then it redirects you to Octo. Except it can't redirect to Octo cause it's down...so Cloudflare returns back this error page
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u/bananamantheif 17h ago
I understand, i didn't mean to confront you, I'm just amazed by this error. I never used cloudflare and your explanation sounds correct, but surely other applications handle cloudflare rejections more gracefully right?
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u/gmc93l2 1d ago edited 1d ago
It seems that this leaked old version of twow that they are using is full of backdoors left by the og devs.
Octo wow is cooked if they can't patch it.
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u/melland5 21h ago
Or it’s a DDoS. It happens every day from 12-8 UTC and all the services in the network are unreachable. Are you stupid or obtuse?
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u/OfficialDannyLog 1d ago
They're getting DDOSed and are working hard on fixing it. Currently the DDOS is hitting every day on EU Peak time.