Daybreak Games, Servers, and Websites are once again under attack this morning as of 7:30am PST. The attack stopped at 8:00am PST and then resumed at 11:00am and has continued unabated as of 3:20pm PST. This sustained attack is being done by a different DDOS crew than the one that targeted SOE President John Smedley, and is directed towards the game H1Z1. EQ and EQ2 (and their forums and websites) being offline is just collateral damage.

NOTE: EU-based EverQuest II servers are co-located in Amsterdam, so gameplay may be possible on these servers.

UPDATE as of 6:00pm — It seems that the DDoS attacker has gotten bored and decided to let us play our games again. I was unable to login using the EQ2 Launchpad, so instead I located the EverQuest II folder on my hard drive and opened the EverQuest2.exe program directly. It’s approximately 20MB in size.

Original updates after the jump…

We are continuing to resolve an outstanding technical issues which may be affecting logins. Thanks again for your patience. — Daybreak Games (@DaybreakGames) December 31, 2015

Our Ops team is working on ferreting out the funk in all games. Sorry folks! #eq2 #everquest — Holly Longdale (@TheWindstalker) December 30, 2015

Still working on issues. Getting alerts. — Holly Longdale (@TheWindstalker) December 30, 2015

We are experiencing connectivity issues right now and are working to correct them. Thank you for your reports and patience. — Daybreak Games (@DaybreakGames) December 30, 2015

Update as of 11:00am PST: Daybreak Games, Forums, etc. seem to be once again be under attack.

UPDATE as of 8:00am PST: Games, Forums, and Census seem to be responding again. Things seem to be returning to normal.