Character name can't be hidden.

[Byrth]

The basic idea is that this will deter trolling, because everyone will use their legitimate names instead of the very obvious illegitimate names sprinkled throughout the forums. I don't see any legitimate reason to hide your identity, but this won't actually prevent it as long as the trolls have mules.

[Dallas]

I can see why you might be worried if people know your in game name. You're incredibly arrogant and your posts make no sense.

I'm not worried, I just don't want to know you. You are free to deal with the rejection however you see fit.

[Karbuncle]

I'm not worried, I just don't want to know you. You are free to deal with the rejection however you see fit.

Oh, I see, You're a troll. You're simply making responses that seem the most stupid in hopes you rouse a negative response from me. Oh, Well. I remember when you first began posting you weren't nearly this stupid. In fact i recall you were quite reasonable.

So my guess is the internet has gotten to you, and you no longer care what people think of you so you're attempting to make everyone hate you.

Its sad to see you go down this hard. Maybe you can get a blog spot with starcade? you both seem to have the same level of arrogance and meaningless hatred.

Well, it was highly suspicious that only my BLM gears were stolen when I logged out on WHM, and my FFXIAH profile hadn't been updated to reflect that change the next moring and my toon had been moved. They didn't touch my SH +1 and such...it was all still in my mogsafe....with my other 6 HQ staves and such, which had been swiped. Didn't even take the Royal Cloak that was in my inventory, but they took my black cloak that was in the safe also. It had the appearence of them seeing specific gear they wanted and that's all they took. Whether they saw that before hand, or just when they logged on during the 6 hours I was logged off can be debated. Regardless....showing that info can simply lead to more problems than it may help. Thankfully, this sytem won't be going so far to show gears and such, but it might evolve into that eventually--who knows. I'm simply not confortable with having no say in showing any of my character's information. It's also why I contacted the admins and had them purge my info from the data base after I unlinked from the LS site. Eventually, old data got restored when the site had a meltdown and they had to extract old data to recover it so it has ancient stats showing.

If someone got on your account to take your stuff they likely would have stolen all they could. I can't explain your situation, but i severely doubt it was because they saw your gear on FFXIAH.

[RAIST]

That is what is so odd about it... they took over 3mill of stuff out of the safe, but left almost 2 mill behind, some of which was on my character...though it wasn't equipped. And purging my data was a recommendation from SE. They even had me clear my friends list as well. Security software didn't catch any adware/spyware crud on my game system either--it was only caught on my laptop, which is what I used to log into the SE LS sight and hit all the other FFXI stuff. So if they trapped my sign-in info, that is where they likely got it from-my laptop. Which is another reason I don't like having to use my game credentials to access these forums. Maybe they were only looking for specific gear in general, or maybe they already knew that I had a specific set of gears and that's all they took. Who knows.

But this is distracting from the real debate/issue with this move. They are already forcing us to use game credentials to log-in, creating a potential attack vector, and then they are going to force us to publish information identifying our in-game persona. This has the potential to create problems for some users and we should be given the ability to opt out.

[Karbuncle]

There are very few positives and negatives for this move. I too do not understand why they are doing it.

Only that I think after it happens we'll eventually get over it

[Dallas]

I remember when you first began posting

You have no idea, and that isn't just trolling. The information flows because I automatically assume that no one has any clue what they are talking about.

[Karbuncle]

You have no idea, and that isn't just trolling. The information flows because I automatically assume that no one has any clue what they are talking about.

On these forums*

What you said really does sound like something he-who-shall-not-be-named does. I assume a certain level of intelligence from the people i talk too (Which is why i assume a lot).

That being said, Letting other people effect your life is never a wise solution, especially when it directly impacts your ability to socially interact with others, online or off.

You're only hurting yourself in that endeavor.

[Winrie]

That is what is so odd about it... they took over 3mill of stuff out of the safe, but left almost 2 mill behind, some of which was on my character...though it wasn't equipped. And purging my data was a recommendation from SE. They even had me clear my friends list as well. Security software didn't catch any adware/spyware crud on my game system either--it was only caught on my laptop, which is what I used to log into the SE LS sight and hit all the other FFXI stuff. So if they trapped my sign-in info, that is where they likely got it from-my laptop. Which is another reason I don't like having to use my game credentials to access these forums. Maybe they were only looking for specific gear in general, or maybe they already knew that I had a specific set of gears and that's all they took. Who knows.

But this is distracting from the real debate/issue with this move. They are already forcing us to use game credentials to log-in, creating a potential attack vector, and then they are going to force us to publish information identifying our in-game persona. This has the potential to create problems for some users and we should be given the ability to opt out.

Why exactly is this such a big issue with you? no one used ffxiah or this site or any other to rob you or anything to that extent. No one nowadays would bother looking to steal old gear such as you listed. Nor did anything you listed stolen equal to anything close to 1m gil. So im really confused =/

[GlobalVariable]

this is distracting from the real debate/issue with this move. They are already forcing us to use game credentials to log-in, creating a potential attack vector, and then they are going to force us to publish information identifying our in-game persona. This has the potential to create problems for some users and we should be given the ability to opt out.

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[Tsukino_Kaji]

Well, it was highly suspicious that only my BLM gears were stolen when I logged out on WHM, and my FFXIAH profile hadn't been updated to reflect that change the next moring and my toon had been moved. They didn't touch my SH +1 and such...it was all still in my mogsafe....with my other 6 HQ staves and such, which had been swiped. Didn't even take the Royal Cloak that was in my inventory, but they took my black cloak that was in the safe also. It had the appearence of them seeing specific gear they wanted and that's all they took. Whether they saw that before hand, or just when they logged on during the 6 hours I was logged off can be debated. Regardless....showing that info can simply lead to more problems than it may help. Thankfully, this sytem won't be going so far to show gears and such, but it might evolve into that eventually--who knows. I'm simply not confortable with having no say in showing any of my character's information. It's also why I contacted the admins and had them purge my info from the data base after I unlinked from the LS site. Eventually, old data got restored when the site had a meltdown and they had to extract old data to recover it so it has ancient stats showing.

An odd story, but I myself would assume the cause was something you picked up from being on such pages as FFXIAH.