Code:
Tracing route to 204.2.229.97 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  RT-AC68U-5570 [192.168.1.1]
  2    10 ms    14 ms     8 ms  96.120.28.53
  3    10 ms     9 ms     8 ms  te-0-7-0-8-sur03.chicago301.il.chicago.comcast.net [68.85.180.45]
  4     9 ms     9 ms     8 ms  68.85.183.142
  5    14 ms    11 ms    11 ms  be-144-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net [162.151.45.69]
  6    11 ms    12 ms    10 ms  be-33491-cr02.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.91.165]
  7    10 ms    10 ms     9 ms  be-10577-pe03.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.86.2]
  8    15 ms    13 ms    11 ms  ae-26.a02.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.66.65]
  9   177 ms   186 ms     *     ae-3.r07.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.111]
 10    11 ms    10 ms     9 ms  ae-5.r21.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.213]
 11   178 ms   187 ms    79 ms  ae-5.r22.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.17]
 12    96 ms   101 ms    96 ms  ae-40.r02.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.121]
 13     *      186 ms   185 ms  ae-3.r00.scrmca02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.11]
 14   190 ms   192 ms     *     xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [129.250.195.46]
 15    84 ms     *        *     204.2.229.234
 16   189 ms   188 ms   185 ms  204.2.229.97

Trace complete.
Time of trace: ~9:30pm CST

You really expect me to play in that?

Still continuing to investigate? Stormblood launched on June 20, 2017. Today is March 6, 2018. Nearly 9 months later. How much more "investigating" do you expect your players to put up with?