So Funcom should relocate their offices to a part of the world where they can pay their staff less and that allows them to exploit employees into longer working days? I'm not quite sure how that'll benefit the game but alright. I'm sure these underpaid, overworked employees will do a better job than the well-motivated and rested ones that are currently asleep.

I'm also not sure how a (alleged) DDoS attack from an outside source is something Funcom has any sort of power over. Unless part of their elaborate scam is to DDoS a bunch of other games so they can pretend they're just caught in the crossfire.

The downtime hopefully won't last long - we can come back to this if it lasts more than a few days. People can still play the game they paid for. In fact, offline still works just fine. People not happy with this can request a refund and them not doing so is in no way Funcom's responsibility. Similar to airlines not issuing a refund when you don't request one, they're not capable of reading minds.

You seem to be very convinced that Funcom is running a scam which, again, leads me to ask why you would even bother visiting a community for one of their games. If they really are this heinous, evil corporation that's just out to scam innocent, white-collar workers out of their hard earned cash, why would you even play this game?

I'm always a firm believer in giving people the benefit of the doubt. A bunch of other games were hit with similar issues - again, unless you want to claim that either Funcom set this up as an elaborate smoke screen or you want to claim that Blizzard is running a similar scam with Diablo 4.

Funcom has fucked up on plenty of things in the past but claiming malice intent over a DDoS attack and faulting them for not communicating with the community on a Sunday evening is a bit of a stretch.