Yeh my Uni blocks it too, even student apartments do. Fortunately I dont live in one but the torrent still sucks, and all these idiots like "open this port n that port", it barely helps stop trying to act like you're the big geek. I change routers and reset mine so often that i dont even bother opening ports and somedays I can get 500kb/s on the xiv patcher, other times its 7hrs for 5mbs lol. And other things I torrent is always 1-2mb/s, even XIV patcher now wont budget of 0b/s for the past 30 mins, while utorrent has climbed a hefty 73% in that time.

The problem with direct is cost and traffic, its all demanding on the server, where as torrent we are using OUR BANDWIDTH to provide SE'S CUSTOMERS with THEIR GAME. Kinda bullshit really that we're having to pay to keep people playing their game cuse they're so shitty to provide direct.