Bahamut.Inspectorgadget said:
»That's exactly why I linked it, Chinese RMT have targeted SE before in retaliation to actions made against them, many times actually.
I don't follow news about FFXIV much, but was something done to them recently over there?
To the best of my knowledge, no. And they certainly haven't done anything on XI. It's obviously possible that it really is a DDoS, but that has been SE's go-to whenever they have any sort of trouble with anything.
If they are to be believed, they never have any networking trouble outside of DDoS.
If it is in fact a DDoS, it is extremely coincidental that the first wave of r0s started shortly after their maintenance during which they were 'Exchanging network equipment' on the 17th, then once the issue was made known they did another maintenance for 'Exchange of server equipment' on the 23rd. May also be related to their translation team, but one would expect them to say Upgrade rather than exchange to put it in a more positive light.