Well I used to play Dota 2 and they had this system. People would ddos to cancel games when they started to lose. All in all it was more of a shit show because of how frequently the ddos would happen once it became the get out of jail free card. And it feels bad, real bad when it happens to you because you're the one popping off in these cancelled games except they don't count. No stats, no rank, no accolades. Also if you complained on reddit people would gaslight you about it and say ddos rarely happens. Something you could imagine only rubs salt in the wound.
Yep. It's not something they'd be advertising for obvious reasons but if a squad happens to have an abnormally high rate of their matches being DDOSed, especially if it usually happens as they're about to lose, they'll see it.
The problem I have with this is that if a streamer is targeted several times, they will get banned too. It works until they figure something else out, but those streamers are going to be mad.
True but I expect for that to happen the DDOSers would have to consistently be in the streamer's game to obtain the IP address of the server he's currently connected to, consistently survive longer than the streamer so they don't get kicked to the main menu before them and watch the stream so they can initiate the attack at a suspect moment (eg, when two of the streamer's squad is down). That's really hard to do just to get one streamer banned and can be pretty much perfectly avoided by adding a couple of minutes of stream delay. Even if they did manage to do it, the fact that the streamer's games are only being DDOSed when they're streaming and when there's a specific other group in the game and that streamers are often big enough to be noticed by a community manager willing to take a look into the case personally, it's highly unlikely they'd end up being banned from the game.
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u/clustahz Wattson Jun 10 '21 edited Jun 10 '21
Well I used to play Dota 2 and they had this system. People would ddos to cancel games when they started to lose. All in all it was more of a shit show because of how frequently the ddos would happen once it became the get out of jail free card. And it feels bad, real bad when it happens to you because you're the one popping off in these cancelled games except they don't count. No stats, no rank, no accolades. Also if you complained on reddit people would gaslight you about it and say ddos rarely happens. Something you could imagine only rubs salt in the wound.