I have been trying to login to my character off and on since about 5 p.m. EST on August 25th. I was able to get past the "Error 1017" once in the last 9 hours, and it was just minutes before the 12:00 to 1:30 a.m. EST maintenance. I was happy about this, thinking that maybe the afore mentioned error would be fixed, and that I would be able to log into my character and finally be able to play. Yes this is very frustrating to me, and I hope that SE has a brilliant and flawless gameplan to wipe this error off the face of my log-in screen forever lol. I took a week off of work (vacation) perfectly timed with the early access release of FFXIV. Please save my vacation SE! Your my only hope!