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Well, the screen/box reads:
月刊 (Monthly)
任天堂 (Nintendo)
店頭デモ (Storefront demo)

A short investigation seems to indicate that these discs were distributed to Japanese retailers on a monthly basis...

Would a trace route to 158.205.104.60 then be able to prove if NTT is at fault?

From everything I've seen 158.205.104.60 is basically the final IDC/Yahoo Japan hop before hitting pay dirt and...

For what it's worth, NTT America connects to both game and site without issue.
http://www.us.ntt.net/support/looking-glass/

Don't really care.

Adelphia went bankrupt and their assets were sold off to Time-Warner and Comcast. Unless SEGA really did find some way to play ISP roulette, I wouldn't worry about your connection dying off. It isn't...

Get subclass to 70, then invest in some AC.

If I ever get to/care to play again, AC is pretty much the last thing on my mind now.

Waifu loss has reached critical mass. Logic systems failing. Initializing fullretard.exe

I have a feeling if you asked SEGA what the current time was in New York City, you would get the same response.

Haha, oh God this sounds so plausible it hurts to live.

PSOW - "Push button, receive butthurt."

I think you underestimate the number of people who've been crafting effigies of their waifus during downtime.

Most people get repeated time outs. I've seen a fair few loops though. It may not be common, but it isn't just you.

Have any FIOS users contacted Verizon about the issue? See what they say? So far Cox suggests it might be an auto-blacklisting, and AT&T says there is no global routing entry.

Perhaps each ship may have a cap on the number of users that can be sharing the same IP? Since the filthy gaijin plebs all funnel into ship 2, naturally it caps out and starts dropping/refusing...

Ship 2 is actually 210.189.208.16 now.

tracert gs016.pso2gs.net

Oh man, my condolences. Do those jokers still have bandwidth caps? They sent me a letter informing me that I went over once and that the next time I did they would charge me. Hah, no, good riddance....

Got a response from my ISP. A know-nothing tech who couldn't understand my questions. As expected. At least the response had a few typos so I know it wasn't some robo response.

Guess I'll just...

Nothing. I'm already perfect.

You seem to be misunderstanding. This is not an issue SEGA has any control over (technically they could speed it up if they wanted to but they do not have any obligation to do so). This issue will...

No, allow me to explain using this scientific diagram.

[spoiler-box]http://i.imgur.com/Pnte6ML.png[/spoiler-box]

Ah, sweet vindication.

That's a bit melodramatic. You'd come out more brain broken with your average visit to tumblr or youtube comments than you would reading PSOW.

In-game music only. Only way I can listen to something else is if I can mod the music myself. Not having proper cutoffs and transitions irks my autism.

I e-mailed my ISP 2 days ago. I should have a response by midnight. I did notice yesterday that my connection timed out right after my router for a little while, so maybe someone started poking...