The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 329: Fighting! Cool!

Chapter 329: Fighting! Cool! (Ask for guaranteed monthly tickets at the beginning of the month)
Today is an unforgettable day for players all over the world.

This is especially true for North American players.

First, DreamWorks launched more than 900 million holographic devices for sale around North America - the main markets were Xia, Britain and France. In addition to the three countries, more than units were also launched in other major markets in Asia and Europe to test the waters.

As for Germany, a batch had already been put on the shelves on March 3, but it was missed this time.

Players who got a share of the market were delighted and rushed to buy.

Only North American players were so angry that they cursed.

They complained and petitioned the Los Angeles branch of Dream Building, demanding fair treatment.

Response from the Los Angeles branch of Dream Building:
[We are working hard to communicate with the headquarters, please wait for our good news.]
North American players are not fools, and they immediately realized that this was a way to delay time.

By the time you finish communicating, it will be a month later, right?
What’s the difference between that and us doing nothing and waiting?
What use is there for you? ! !
They protested.

But the protests were in vain.

They didn't dare to scold the FBI, and they were all very angry.

It wasn't until Monster Hunter was officially released that they stopped sulking and turned their attention to the new game.

Dream Building lived up to expectations and responded to players' expectations for the past six months with exciting scenes at the beginning of the game.

He fell from the sky, stuck close to an ancient dragon, and then ascended from the ground to escape danger by riding on the mouth of a gliding pterosaur.

At the beginning of the journey, players exclaimed:
This game is worth buying!

Then explore the world, start hunting, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with large monsters.

The pristine rainforest teeming with vitality, the large monsters with delicate modeling, the combat experience with maximum interactivity and striking feeling...all of them made them addicted.

Just when we were getting to the top, the server suddenly had problems!
Latency spike!

It's so high that I can't play it at all.

When you hit a monster, you cannot deal damage.

The monster hit him, but he was fine at the time. A few seconds later, he was suddenly blown away by the "air".

He died suddenly in a few seconds and was put on a stretcher and carried away by the cat people.

At first, everyone thought there was something wrong with their network.

After all, DreamZhu’s servers have always been trustworthy, and there have been almost no network problems.

When the city was first opened, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of people from all over the world flocked in, and the server did not lag at all.

But after checking again and again, I didn't find any problems with my own network.

I had to ask online.

As a result, when I went online, I saw that the Mansheng City was suddenly closed, and tens of millions of players were kicked off the line. I asked around with a puzzled look on my face:

"Who is attacking Dream Building?"

The players then realized: "Oh! It turns out that it's not my problem, it's that the Dream Building server was attacked."

And it is a very powerful cyber attack!

Otherwise, "Project Frost", "Lord of War" and "Monster Hunter" would all be affected, and the Sprawling City and Silver City would be closed on the spot!
Even after Zhumeng pushed the emergency offline notification of Mansheng, it immediately started the countdown.

The countdown is only 10 seconds!
Not to mention arranging the things at hand and logging back to the login space to log off, even saying goodbye to friends was too hasty.

In the Sky Arena, hundreds of thousands of ring matches were forced to be interrupted halfway through. Before the boxers could react to what was happening, they were ruthlessly kicked out of the server.

The plans of hundreds of businesses, large and small, were disrupted and live streaming of goods was temporarily interrupted.

——The live streaming sales of goods by Remington Arms Company has not only had a huge impact on the domestic arms sales industry, but also allowed many companies in ordinary industries to see new opportunities for live streaming sales of goods.

Those who are quick have already started testing the waters for holographic live streaming.

Dream Building does not have any holographic customization service yet, so their trial live broadcasts are all conducted in existing sprawling cities.

The sudden closure of the sprawling city undoubtedly affected them as well.

……

The user base of sprawling metropolises is already comparable to the total population of some small countries.

The loss caused by suddenly going offline without any warning is huge.

It can be seen that the situation facing Dream Building is very serious and the situation is very critical!
The impact it has on global social networks is naturally astonishingly huge!

Plus, there are players who suddenly can’t play the game anymore…

As we all know, when players are suddenly interrupted while playing games, they tend to become very irritable.

If it’s a long-awaited new game, the irritability will be doubled!
Tens of millions of players and users were affected at the same time. You can imagine how much they hate the mastermind behind this cyber attack!

So, who launched this cyber attack?

Like Xu Meng, everyone’s first reaction is Sony!

After all, the confrontation between the two sides during this period was too obvious.

Sony was also badly beaten by DreamWorks.

Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of Sony’s CEO. We would not know how to defeat DreamChina and turn defeat into victory through legal means.

——If both the software and hardware are backward, even a god can’t save it!

The only way seems to be to use means beyond the rules - directly attack the Dream Builder server and destroy Dream Builder with unconventional means!
This set of reasoning is very logically smooth.

Then, the rest is simple -

Start spraying!
"Fuck you Newly! Fuck you Gamestation!"

"Dirty tactics! You are not worthy of publishing games! Shame on you!"

"I can't beat the game, I can't beat the console, it's embarrassing!"

"I was only a few cuts away from defeating the fucking boss! But you bunch of stinking shits messed it up, and I have to start all over again!"

“I’m so ashamed to be your user!”

"This is my PlayStation console, and now I'm going to smash it to protest your immoral behavior!"

……

Players from all over the world had nothing to do, so they attacked Sony Game Station's accounts on various social networking platforms. This allowed Sony Game Station to fully appreciate the swearing culture in more than a dozen languages in less than half an hour.

Finally, I had no choice but to close the comment section.

Under normal circumstances, crisis public relations should have started by now.

No matter what the truth is, you must deny it at the first opportunity.

But Sony didn't.

Because they can't take care of it.

DDoS attack is a very powerful weapon, and it is certainly a pleasure to use it to attack others.

But if someone else stabs you with this knife, it will be very painful!!

After all, Sony is a large multinational company, so it has no shortage of traffic cleaning and high-defense gateway measures to defend against DDoS attacks.

But what they are facing now is a combination of bandwidth crushing and complex attacks.

——The attack traffic exceeded the bandwidth limit of the high-defense gateway and the cleaning center from the very beginning. At the same time as the DDoS attack, attacks on the network layer and application layer also began simultaneously. At the same time, the attackers were adjusting the attack mode in real time with an astonishing reaction speed to bypass the cleaning strategy based on the rule base.

When the opponent is wielding a mountain, he can still be fast and on time.

What else can you do?

Sony's defense system was penetrated in a very short time.

Even the time they spent resisting was a smokescreen released by Xiao Meng - in order to buy time to find key information and obtain higher operating permissions.

While Sony's security team was overwhelmed and unable to cope, and the management held an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures, Xiao Meng had already done everything she needed to do.

Sony didn't even know that its own database was in danger.

Following Xu Meng's order, Xiao Meng swung the hammer in his hand.

So, with a 13-hour time difference, it was o'clock at night in New York.

At Sony Entertainment's North American headquarters, all computers turned on - whether they were office computers in the security department or computers connected to projectors during emergency meetings - a phrase popped up at the same time:
【FIND YOU!】

The security engineers were caught off guard and were horrified. They retreated suddenly and subconsciously moved away from the screen.

The executives in the office who were not vigilant enough just frowned and asked:
What's happening here?
Are we being invaded?
The next second, their doubts were answered——

[Database formatting in progress...]
A progress bar popped up below this line of words, and the progress began to advance rapidly the moment it appeared!
1%, 3%, 5%, 7%...

After just a few seconds of distraction, the progress was advanced to 10%!

"Is this... true?" Some people couldn't believe it.

"Where is the head of the security department?! Didn't you say that the defense has not been breached?" Hermann was furious.

"How is this going?!"

The person in charge was sweating profusely. "It seems that our defenses have not been breached, and there are no signs of intrusion at the system level."

Herman pointed at the progress bar on the screen and shouted, "No?! Then what is this? Is it fake?!"

The progress bar has been advanced to 15%.

The person in charge was also doubting his life and subconsciously wondering what went wrong.

"Shit! Is this the time to be in a daze?! Is our database information really being deleted?"

"Look on the server..."

The person in charge just opened his mouth when he was interrupted again by Hermann:
"Stop talking nonsense and just answer yes or no!"

"I..." The supervisor's mouth began to tremble with nervousness, but he still insisted, "I'm not sure."

The crushing technological advantage almost destroyed his confidence.

Herman, on the other hand, acted decisively. Hearing this, he said without hesitation: "Completely cut off the network! Cut off the power if necessary! Cut off the physical connection as well!"

"The database cannot be lost!"

"Yes!" The person in charge nodded and was about to give the order when he saw the report from his subordinates -

The server is down.

……

The United States is Sony's largest user market, with more than 4000 million users.

Now, more than one million of these 4000 million users are playing the game, and a prompt window pops up on the interface almost at the same time:
[Server connection failed, reconnecting...]
After reconnecting for a few seconds, the same prompt popped up again:

[Server connection failed, reconnecting...]
……

And so on and on.

Until it becomes [Server Lost].

These millions of players were confused and turned to social networks and player communities to ask what was happening.

Many people didn't realize until this time that a war was taking place on social networks.

The Dream Builder user, who was originally furious, suddenly laughed out loud.

——Although Dream Building is miserable, at least the game is still playable.

The latency is too high to fight, but at least you can enjoy the scenery, mine, collect herbs, etc.

Unlike Sony, their servers crashed!
There was a sudden surge of gloating on social networks:
"Hahaha, damn! Open the champagne!"

"Good job! It's retribution!"

"Did Zhumeng fight back? I knew Boss Xu was a ruthless person!"

"Keep going! This is much more fun than playing games!"