Anti DDoS

No. It raises the bar and usually shortens incidents, but upstream outages, misconfiguration, hardware failure, or a large enough attack can still cause downtime.

Sometimes. Protection can add an extra hop, and during mitigation traffic may be rerouted. Well-run networks keep the default route close so you only feel a change when an incident is happening.

Mitigation often tightens rate limits and blocks suspicious patterns to keep the service alive. Shared IPs, VPNs, some mobile networks, and unstable connections can get caught. Better servers tune rules to reduce false blocks.

No. Smaller communities get hit too, often around personal drama or big events. If people schedule playtime and care about progress, protection matters at any size.

You cannot confirm it from the client, but you can judge behavior: joinability during high-drama nights, outages that look like brief instability instead of long blackouts, and staff that can explain incidents and recovery without hand-waving.