"Issues with the PlayOnline Central Servers..." Yeah...

Round 2 of the Hostile Takeover of Vana'diel... For about 4 hours this morning (that I wasn't on -- errands for the roomie...), many players could not get onto (or, technically, off of) POL.

Elmer the Pointy hits it square-on:

http://www.jpbutton.com/?p=3573

Anyone who still doesn't believe that something is going on RMT vis-a-vis a direct attack on the Square-Enix servers (which would amount to a physical hostile takeover of Vana'diel) is far more optimistic than I am.