Just a heads up, Animal Crossing Online is currently down [SERVERS ARE UP!]

[KeatAlex]

DDoS

Why must people like this exists

 

[moonolotl]

This smells DDoS. Nintendo are holding a MK8D tournament for North America and Animal Crossing is the hottest cake of the bunch right now.

Trolls could very well do this just to piss people off.

well that doesnt sound very nice of them lol
im sure its probably just the servers getting overwhelmed or something? but if it is more serious than that then oh gosh

 

[DJStarstryker]

You guys could be like me and go fishing for C+ while watching this thread. lol

 

[moonolotl]

nintendo is quarantining us
and now i close the tab and never come back

 

[Raz]

well that doesnt sound very nice of them lol
im sure its probably just the servers getting overwhelmed or something? but if it is more serious than that then oh gosh

Technical, that's precisely how a DDoS attack works: by overloading servers with requests, making them shut down.

 

[IonicKarma]

man, just when I was gonna do a routine DIY giveaway/cleanout too (because HHA haaaaaates you placing dupes on the floor apparently)

Well, it could always be worse.

Haha i just ignore the HHA now, its my house I do what I want :3

 

[SarahsNY]

You guys could be like me and go fishing for C+ while watching this thread. lol

I mean, I could, but complaining about things out of my control is a lot more entertaining

 

[Candy83]

Effective 05.09.2020 @ 07:28 p.m. ET: I just tried to host someone.

The above picture, taken at 07:20 p.m. ET, says enough.

(I am in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, in the United States.)

 

[DJStarstryker]

The most annoying part of this is it happening on a weekend, when there's a higher number of people wanting to use it.

 

[Blink.]

how about we put on some masks, get on a flight to wherever you live, and do local trading?
sounds like a plan. Not a great one, but a plan

 

[moonolotl]

The most annoying part of this is it happening on a weekend, when there's a higher number of people wanting to use it.

thats probably why it happened

 

[Mikaiah]

update: https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/network/en_na/network_status.jsp

all services are down officially (seems like this includes 3ds and wiiU as well), no eta yet it looks like. @IonicKarma might be worth adding the link to your first post ^^

 

[jiojiop]

What's weird is I had 3 people at my town at the time. Only 1 disconnected from the error and couldn't get back on despite repeated tries. The other 2 people remained on my island and were fine! They even stayed, gave gifts to Bunnie, watered flowers, and prayed on my shooting star shower. I don't get it?

 

[moonolotl]

What's weird is I had 3 people at my town at the time. Only 1 disconnected from the error and couldn't get back on despite repeated tries. The other 2 people remained on my island and were fine! They even stayed, gave gifts to Bunnie, watered flowers, and prayed on my shooting star shower. I don't get it?

thats really weird :O
A few people were saying they could connect fine too

 

[Fye]

how about we put on some masks, get on a flight to wherever you live, and do local trading?
sounds like a plan. Not a great one, but a plan

I can't wait to finally try local trading (not that I have anyone near me who plays AC haha). I imagine the menu is so much shorter

 

[Blink.]

actually, its almost just as long tbh
we got two switches here, hubby & me. Orville still asks if I wanna put a dodo for local and stoof ;~;

 

[Raz]

What's weird is I had 3 people at my town at the time. Only 1 disconnected from the error and couldn't get back on despite repeated tries. The other 2 people remained on my island and were fine! They even stayed, gave gifts to Bunnie, watered flowers, and prayed on my shooting star shower. I don't get it?

That's something that happened when PSN suffered a DDoS. I could play SFV for almost 40 minutes before getting the same error people were getting for a couple hours. Eventually everything goes down because the admins will preserve the server and their customers by shutting the servers down

 

[coffee biscuit]

Of course this happens when I have 2 villagers to sell tonight

 

[classically.trained]

Of course this happens just as I got to the front of the turnip queue

 

[thegunpowderincident]

Seems like DDoS to me too. If it is, I imagine whoever’s doing it is going to find themself in big trouble. I will never understand how hacking servers is worth risking jail time lol.