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We All Missed It: Ankama Pulled DOFUS From Steam
If you’re one of those folks suddenly getting a wild hair up your bum to go play DOFUS again, you’re going to be in for a big surprise if you’re expecting to download it on Steam. It is no longer available on that platform. Ankama made the decision to pull Steam support back at the end of October, and none of us in the games media noticed it because it pretty much flew under the radar without anything in the way of an announcement.
For those coming back to DOFUS, you’re not going to be able to play through Steam. Instead, you’ll need to follow the instructions on the link below to tie your Steam account to an Ankama account, and then play through the official launcher. Good news, you haven’t lost your characters.
Source: DOFUS
DOFUS Gets Hit By DDOS Attacks
Why would anyone want to hurt DOFUS? Over the past few years, the internet has seen the use of distributed denial of service attacks come into use more often and under increasingly casual motivations (Applebee’s didn’t microwave my food long enough, better DDOS them). Luckily most big companies are protected well enough that a player could never successfully DDOS, say, World of Warcraft offline. Smaller games, on the other hand, don’t have those same protections. Around this time last year, in fact, Perpetuum Online became the victim of a DDOS attack.
DOFUS website, forums, and game were taken offline yesterday as a result of multiple DDOS attacks on the servers. The company has beefed up security and put protections in place to hopefully prevent another attack in the future.
Yep, we had another DDoS attack early this morning. The server team is working on new protections for this.
The problem with DDOS attacks is that they were engineered so you never know who is behind them, since the attack comes from hundreds to thousands of computers. It could be a bitter ex-customer, a gold farming company exacting its revenge for disrupting its business, or a malicious hacker group attempting to find security holes. DOFUS’ sequel, Wakfu, is set to change hands from Square Enix at the end of the month.
(Source: DOFUS Twitter)
Wakfu Publishing Changing Hands In North America
New news, Wakfu players. As of March 1st, Square Enix will no longer be handling the publishing of Wakfu in North America. In an email to account holders sent out today, Ankama Games will be taking full responsibility of publishing in the region. The good news is you won’t have to do anything, unlike in most other transitions. If you have an account on Wakfu, you already have an Ankama account. Ankama Games is the developer and international publisher of Wakfu, meaning players will be dealing directly with the source instead of a third party publisher when it comes to game issues.
We’d like to reassure you that this decision was not made lightly, and that this process will not have any impact on the game itself, your characters and progress, or the delivery of new content; we will do our utmost to ensure that the transition will be as seamless as possible and without interruption of service.
This may be the easiest publisher transition in MMO history. Characters and accounts will make the transition with no input needed from the user, subscriptions that overlap the transition date will not be affected at all, and accounts will have the same amount of Ogrines as they did under Square Enix. There won’t even be any server downtime associated with the move (planned).
(Source: Wakfu News)
MMO Fallout 