A hunch at what caused all of this.

[HarVee]

Couple of people have been reacting to just about everything I say with "poo", so I edit these in after the fact.

I gave you a poo just to be friendly.

 

[PJTierney]

Purely speculation, but I think it would be quite funny if a disgruntled employee put some brick code into the game in protest over the truly terrible anti consumer practices PD has embraced.

Lets hear all of your wild theories.

It wouldn’t be this. It’s more than likely that a single process in the chain is generating far more server pings (ie: millions) than it should, which in turn causes server instability for all players.

Could be something as simple as the save file verification check (ie: anti-cheat), or some analytics process that’s started tracking things way too often.

I doubt anything malicious is happening here and I’m sure Polyphony are working flat-out to resolve it. I’ve been on the front line for similar stuff in the past, this is usually an “all hands on deck” situation.

 

[Michael88]

Well, wasn't there this magical killing stone with demons inside in Japan that suddenly split and crumbled a few weeks ago?

Polyphony Digital are probably fighting for their lives as we speak. I mean, watching anime we all know the crazy stuff that happens in Japan.

 

[Sgueji]

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[Tenacious D]

@AutumnalGlow My sympathies, my "they." Yeah, this place, it's so charming.