Character name can't be hidden.

[RAIST]

FFXIAH has been doing this for years now, and it really has no direct impact on your gaming experience. People really do not care about posts on the forum that much. Hell only a very small portion of the FFXI Community even uses forums.

I don't think this will cause as much of a problem as people think is all.

Actually, we think either the information displayed on FFXIAH or the LS site likely made people stronger targets for hacking years back. I only displayed my info in two places back before I lost all my AH-able BLM gears--FFXIAH and SE's LS site. I had the Admins dump my info from their site and pulled everything off of SE's while they tried to restore my account. It's also why I stopped browsing on my computer, just the laptop.

I don't even like the fact we have to link our game accounts and use those credential to post on the forum in the first place. It opens up an attack vector for people to gather partial login information again, just like what was happening with the ad banners on other sites a while back. Now they will make us display a portion of that character information as well, which may just make some players more attractive targets--especially those who don't have a low level alternate to link.