IP and LONW founder here:
Literally nobody cares about whether community servers are unplayable, too many cheaters or whatever.
I don't understand why you guys keep bringing up cheaters as a reason for EA to get involved. Not like they can take your word for it. Only people with serious issues understanding things from others perpsective would keep bringing up bf1 being unplayable as a reason for EA to get involved lol.
EA doesn't support this game anymore, neither do DICE. The RSP system is forgotten and not supported. You rent servers at your own risk.
As for the whole DDOS protection, instead of blaming cheaters, maybe go and blame the "know it all" admins who decided it was a good idea to ban cheaters from DICE servers.
Actually one of the worst ideas ever in the BF1 community. As things stand now cheaters have just as much right to play as you due to EAs ban policy in BF1 and i actually agree with the crashers to crash community servers and ddos because some people decided it was a good idea to decide who is a cheater and who is not and then take the former and ban them from playing on NON community servers.
To be honest, I hope the cheaters crash and teach these wannabe police admins a lesson. There is literally nothing you can do against cheaters in BF1 yet some admins decided it was a good idea to poke the bear.
Keep the balance and stop crossing your boundaries or enjoy the endless crashing. Cheaters if you read this, I hope the crashing doesnt stop until whoever decided it was good idea to ban cheater from playing on DICE reverses it