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Originally Posted by carambola

i'm no computer guy but isn't Christmas morning and everyone activating games at the same time sort of a non malignant DOS attack?

Absolutely! In this case, they may have evidence that it's not, I don't know. But I have been privy to companies effectively DDoSing themselves with similar behavior. Got a bunch of equipment that talks to a central device, something happens and all of the equipment decides it needs to talk to the central device all at the same time, poof, central device (or devices) tank and it takes a few hours to get everything working again by making all of the devices talk in small groups.