Customer Introduction
As a highly anticipated mobile game, Reverse:1999 garnered 10 million pre-registrations before the national server open beta. On the launch day, it quickly topped the iOS free game chart, earning acclaim from seasoned card game players.
Challenges & Goals
- Surge in Static Download Traffic: After the launch of Reverse: 1999, the release of game packages and hot updates led to a sharp increase in business traffic, posing significant challenges to the product's capacity to handle the load.
- Frequent DDoS Attacks:Continuous DDoS attacks disrupted businesses, rendering the game unavailable.
- Increased Pressure on Anti-Cheat and Vulnerability Protection: During the game's launch, black-market organizations exploited vulnerabilities to steal user information and game rewards through account farming and theft, severely harming the rights of both the game's customers and players.
Why Tencent Cloud
- Tencent Cloud EdgeOne activated an enterprise-edition content acceleration package, handling 100% of the game package downloads and hot updates. This ensured sufficient bandwidth was reserved in advance, effectively managing the sudden traffic spike on launch day.
- For the game's lobby, login, payment, and API, EdgeOne's Anti-DDoS Advanced effectively mitigated DDoS and CC attacks.
- For the game's business game server, CLB convergence and EdgeOne's Anti-DDoS Pro provided protection without requiring business IP address changes. This flexible binding and unbinding ensured a secure launch with no safety incidents, maximizing the game servers' operational stability.
- Leveraging Tencent's security threat intelligence capabilities and experience from hundreds of games, the team proactively identified and restricted dozens of black-market IPs through security policies, further enhancing business security.
Highlighted Benefits
Tencent Cloud EdgeOne ensured fast and stable download experiences for players during package downloads and hot updates for Reverse: 1999. During the game's launch, it effectively safeguarded businesses, protecting the game from security attacks.
In addition, it proactively identified and blocked black-market IPs with effective security policies to help the game mitigate security risks in advance.