I am having this problem too and its seriously making me upset. I just want to get IN already. The start doesn't load and then it refuses to load either the NA/EU servers or the JP servers. And then they DO load, I can't get on due to Error 1017. Then it glitches and I hit Start and get Error 1017 before I hit the character select page, then the NA/EU servers refuse to load again.

This is seriously testing my patience.