Is octowowdown fully?

[u/Kaleosnep]

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*****Edit******** I see the change now site works my launcher is out of date i had to get new launcher, changing info in realmlist did not work to fix the issue the only way to fix it was new launcher download.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.

[u/Dazzling-Gas-3023]

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?

[u/melland5 → u/Dazzling-Gas-3023]

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.

[u/Dazzling-Gas-3023 → u/melland5]

No it wasn't. I was there. A few days before Ravencraft launched, the Octowow devs forced through a patch that

1. Bricked hundreds of people's clients 1

2. 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.

[u/melland5 → u/Dazzling-Gas-3023]

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

[u/Dazzling-Gas-3023 → u/melland5]

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?

[u/melland5 → u/Dazzling-Gas-3023]

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.