PS3 user getting these same errors in the same fashion-- start button graying out, getting 1017 and 2002 before character select screen can even load, no characters even loading if I'm lucky enough to make it that far, and all the other usual fun we end up having with squenix when it's the weekend.

It's getting more and more difficult to make a post reporting an issue on these forums and not flip the fuck out... I probably wouldn't be sitting here consumed with rage if this shit happened to me some time other than the weekend when I can actually play and make some progress.

Oh well. Cheers squenix, you've got me bent over a log once again!