[Complete] Scheduled Server Maintenance - October 15, 2015

So someone on Basil had this theory:

"Someone is/People are DDOSing the website and login servers, while avoiding the actual game servers, so they can take names and no one else can get in and try taking names. Surprised it took them so long to do it, really.

**Edit:** Actually, they seem to be DDOSing the actual, initial authorization server. This is really only useful for the purpose they're using it for, as I mentioned: Keeping people from logging in or going to the login screen, so only all their already-logged-in characters are there and can take names."

Seems to be the most likely explanation, since lots of people are reporting the same errors now.

Or maybe the server is just overloaded with everybody and their bot trying to create characters with every "good" name imaginable.