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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
MMOrning Shots: Ten Years of DOFUS
Today’s MMOrning Shot comes to us from DOFUS, which is celebrating ten years of being online this year.
MMOrning Shots isn’t ten years old, but you can still check it out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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)
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