Disney Lorcana’s online sales event ends in disaster after DDoS attack
The launch of the second set of cards for Disney Lorcana ended on Monday after a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on publisher Ravensburger’s website. On Monday, Disney Lorcana’s official Facebook account announced the DDoS attack. In a statement sent to Polygon, Ravensburger said it is not deterred by the incident, and that additional direct-to-consumer online sales are planned in the future.
“While we are not able to offer more specific details at this time, we want to apologize to consumers who had a negative experience during our launch today,” Ravensburger said in its posts on X and Facebook. “We truly appreciate your support and are committed to improving your experience of future launches.”
The attack was confirmed by technology company Queue-Fair, which managed some of the infrastructure that was under attack.
“Queue-Fair can confirm that we experienced an unprecedented challenge yesterday when both our systems and the Ravensburger system were unexpectedly targeted by the most aggressive DDoS attack we have seen during yesterday’s product launch,” said Queue-Fair, which was founded in 2004, on X. The company said that it estimates nearly five million bot accounts were involved.
“The more measures we put in place to counter the [attack], the more aggressive the attack became,” the company added.
A statement from Queue-Fair. pic.twitter.com/uk0fFA2JE6
Disney Lorcana is a new collectible trading card game (TCG) competing with two of the biggest names in the industry — Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon Trading Card Game. It does so by pairing similar gameplay mechanics with Disney’s beloved stable of animated characters. But while the game has reviewed well, including here at Polygon, actually getting
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