Elysium Couldn't Catch A Break: 6 Simultaneous DDoS Attacks This Past Weekend

December 19, 2016 Sean Sullivan Comments

Over the weekend the vanilla World of Warcraft private server Elysium relaunched Nostalrius' PvE and PvP servers, but it did not go smoothly.

Dear community, we are working to address the lag and login servers. However, please be aware, we are undergoing 6 concurrent DDoS attacks.

— Elysium Project (@elysium_dev) December 18, 2016

Not only were some trolls messing with the servers but the Nostalrius reboot proved enormously popular, with huge queue times. Due to the influx of players the PvP server is temporarily capped at 9.5k. Seems more people want to play vanilla than Elysium estimated.

The project is also still negotiating hardware issues, which extend to the private server's website.

Elysium's fresh start servers have yet to launch, but will do so early in 2017 which is when I'll be hopping into the game. For now, former Nostalrius players can reactivate their old accounts and relive the dream.

Blizzard has made no comment about legacy servers since before BlizzCon.

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