Gamezone shut down by DDOS attack.

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**Orlanth**

Those trying to get to the Gamezone website have met 404 errors.
After failing to visi9t the website several times I decide to check up with Lanzanos where Gamezone held their recent crowdfunder for Heroquest 25th Anniversary edition.

Gamezone were able to update that site with some info:

Attacked! And not by the forces of She, indeed...
Our campaign to make this project a reality, a project that seeks no other thing than to celebrate the HeroqQuest 25th Anniversary with a game faithful to the best dungeon crawler tradition, has been a complete and sound success. We are working really hard to bring to life a product that reflects our love and respect for this legacy, but it seems there are some people who are upset by it.
Last week we announced that this very monday we would start the process of gathering and checking data from our backers at the Gamezone Miniatures online store. And then we were attacked. At first it only slowed down the job of the person in charge of setting things running, but at the end they managed to crash the server in which both heroquestclassic.com and our own store are hosted, with a strong distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS).
Electronic mails have been affected too, and we have noticed that not every response message we have been sending to you has reached its destination. It is very important to remark that no confidential data from our customers has been compromised in any moment, so beyond the headache all this matter has caused to our technical team, the worst loss we have to regret is the wasted time.
Unluckily this has not been the first time we have been attacked, and during the campaign even Lánzanos was under attack, much to the detriment of other projects that were being funded at the same time as ours in that crodwfunding platform. This is a crime, a type of harassment we could not and will not tolerate, and that we have immediately reported to the Guardia Civil Cybercrime Unit.
These past days attacks want to hinder our job and are aimed to make our customer attention as clumsy as possible. They want to sow mistrust and make us all nervous, and they waste the time of those who are working on the administrative area of this project. But luckily, none of this affects the creative team that keeps developing HeroQuest Classic, so you will not wait too long before receiving another update with the latest news about it.
And about the final process in which you will be able to confirm the items you want for your money, modify your pledge as you wish or give us your shipping address, we have another good news: in a few days we will get in contact with you to create a personal account at our online store, that will identify you as backers. We originally planned to do it in another way, but it would be more complex for you and that is exactly what we are trying to avoid.
Thank you all for your patience! We are very serious about our work and we are really striving to make it easy and simple.

Link:
http://www.lanzanos.com/proyectos/heroquest-25-aniversario/actualizaciones/

**RiTides**

This is already posted in the HeroQuest thread:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/180/569616.page#6565354

**Orlanth**

I started this thread because enough people go to Gamezone who have wanted nothing to do with the Heroquest set up.

**Kroothawk**

And the heroquest thread has been moved to some obscure and rarely found part of this forum, so posting news here is essential.

**Medium of Death**

So why are they attracting so much ire?

**RiTides**

Kroothawk wrote:
And the heroquest thread has been moved to some obscure and rarely found part of this forum, so posting news here is essential.

Yes, so obscure for a board game to be in the board game forum

If we didn't do that, N&R would be wall to wall delayed Kickstarters. Unless you want the top threads in this forum to be the delayed campaigns of Robotech, Relic Knights, etc? Misc Games and Board Games are the perfect home for most of them, with a few in Dakka Discussions. Leaves room in here for traditional news as well as active Kickstarters, or companies who have released models post-KS.

That said, it's a fair point Orlanth that folks not interested in the KS could use this information, so no worries

**Orlanth**

Heroquest is a boardgame

Gamezone is a miniatures company, all of Gamezone is down, not just info relating to Heroquest.

Gamezone makes its own stuff mirroring Gw armies, the quality is good and a number of people have long been customers of their including myself. Until I went to the Lanzanos site I had no idea this DDOS had occured, there are other reasons why one might get a 404 error, besides the Gamezone thread is huge and hiding a line of info on page 30-40 is not helpful.

**RiTides**

...all of which I pretty much just said, didn't I?

**Alpharius**

Yes, you did.

On Topic Time now - thanks!

**Orlanth**

Site back up:

http://www.gamezoneminiatures.com/tienda/en/

**Azazelx**

I'm hoping they get some more products up soon. Since they only refund VAT if an order is over €90, I didn't place the order I'd hoped to awhile back after seeing what Doug received. Not sure why they have such a high cap, as unless someone else has a good explanation, it just means they pocket it for smaller orders... Of course, none of my usual UK haunts stock their stuff, either.

**judgedoug**

I believe it's entirely due to Spanish tax laws. The merchant refunds VAT after €90,15 - under that and the consumer can file for a VAT refund voucher through the normal means.

Trust me, it's worth it. I'm really tempted to place another order to get the new resin/plastic High Elf spearmen.

**Kroothawk**

Waiting for plastic Dark Elves with Crossbow.

**judgedoug**

Kroothawk wrote:
Waiting for plastic Dark Elves with Crossbow.

I got a sample pack of them in my spearmen/cavalry order! Excellent - and yeah, same here. As soon as they release a set of 30 I won't be able to contain myself and I'll definitely order two sets each of the DE crossbows and the HE spearmen

**Azazelx**

Kroothawk wrote:
Waiting for plastic Dark Elves with Crossbow.

Agreed. When that happens, I can order the crossbows, the HE Lancers, the light horse and the DE Lancers.

**corgan**

Kroothawk wrote:
Waiting for plastic Dark Elves with Crossbow.

Indeed! And also for some plastic dire wolves for VC.