Quote Originally Posted by Downdrop View Post
Square Enix is the only entity that will have any pull with Level3 which is where the bottleneck is occurring. Companies that run major internet backbones don't deal with individual internet users, they deal with the ISPs and companies who are pushing lots of traffic through their networks. Until Square Enix puts the pressure on Level3 by threatening to move their datacenter elsewhere then we're all stuck with this problem. Square of course does not want to have to resort to moving their datacenter as it would cost them an immense amount of money. Instead, those of us routed through Level3 (which is a very large number of people, even if not the "majority"), are instead just stuck twiddling our thumbs waiting on SE to do something, ANYTHING. As of now, they have not even posted an update to let their customers know they're even working on the problem at all.
I dont think SE can put much pressure at the level3 operator unfortunatly. Shure they can threaten to move their server but the level3 operator knows the cost of moving servers would be huge (as you state) so i can imagine that they would call SE's bluff and just do nothing.
If there was an alternative backbone to use and everyone would pressure their local ISP to use alternate routing then perhaps the level3 operator could be forced because they wouldnt have any clients whatsoever.

Or does all this work differently?