It’s funny how many people lept to this conclusion. Suffice to say, this conclusion is still wrong.
First, an IP block is entirely ineffective against a DDoS. But Sega doesn’t do effective things I hear you cry!
Second, Japanese players are also suffering from connection problems.
Third, players have reported that persistence can work for certain errors. Some IP block if so.
Fourth, Sakai himself said during a talk at the Osaka event that an IP block would achieve nothing.
Fifth, that some ISPs were able to connect and some that weren’t before are now able to, it puts the IP ban theory quite firmly in the coffin.
Now, just because we haven’t been IP blocked doesn’t mean we’ll all be able to play this game any time soon. I’ll be talking about that later…