Harassment and abuse in FF14

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Originally Posted by Chonkusdonkus

Good creative writing.
In case this is real. Go to therapy and talk to some people. The level of paranoia is worrying.

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Worse has happened, its not as widely talked about but people have done worse to a lot of players in this game. From organizing gas lighting people to full on slander to the point a person quits the game, and thats just the JP servers. NA has doxxing, death threats and hacking peoples accounts to delete their accounts, the list goes on really.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

You don't believe that people in this community could band together on, say, Discord to organise the harassment of someone they've decided to target? It does happen.

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They're claiming that gang-stalkers were able to predict and manipulate the decline of their physical health over a period of years, culminating in an episode of temporary blindness instigated through special signal words and phrases.

Group harassment happens, but this particular case has a lot of bizzare red flags.

Knew there was some bad folks around, but people like out of your personal story... seriously, fuck em'.

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Originally Posted by LittleImp

They're claiming that gang-stalkers were able to predict and manipulate the decline of their physical health for years, culminating in an episode of temporary blindness instigated through special signal words and phrases.

Group harassment happens, but this particular case has a lot of bizzare red flags.

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It does, I do agree, but I also would say I've seen a lot of very strange things happen to very week willed people for long periods of time, spanning several years, it happened to someone I know. I'm not saying they dont have a pre-existing medical condition, but I am saying MMOs attract all kinds, and some are very horrible people.

This sounds more like a general thing and not really specifically related to 14 so...why post it here and not just talk to someone like a therapist about it?

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Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

This sounds more like a general thing and not really specifically related to 14 so...why post it here and not just talk to someone like a therapist about it?

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Because even with reports issues like this go on and happen to many other people and the GMs are spotty at best with dealing with harassment. its a larger issues affecting the game, not with theses specific people, but in general with harassemnt, and needs to be taken care of better by SE and the GMs.

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Originally Posted by strawberrycake

Because even with reports issues like this go on and happen to many other people and the GMs are spotty at best with dealing with harassment. its a larger issues affecting the game, not with theses specific people, but in general with harassemnt, and needs to be taken care of better by SE and the GMs.

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It shouldn’t really get to this point in the first place? Blocking exists. Blacklist exists. Name change exists. There’s so many ways you can prevent it and go in the opposite direction. It’s an online game, if people can’t handle it then they shouldn’t really be online.

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Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

It shouldn’t really get to this point in the first place? Blocking exists. Blacklist exists. Name change exists. There’s so many ways you can prevent it and go in the opposite direction. It’s an online game, if people can’t handle it then they shouldn’t really be online.

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They make multiple accounts to target and harass people, and many players have documented these things going on for years now, I wish it was as easy as black listing.

Also thats a silly take, would you tell a loved one to stay offline if they were being harassed, would you tell your sister or brother that? Someone is actively finding them and ways to hurt them, and thats your take. Thats a yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes my guy, thats a big y i k e s right there.

Never victim blame.

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Originally Posted by LittleImp

They're claiming that gang-stalkers were able to predict and manipulate the decline of their physical health over a period of years, culminating in an episode of temporary blindness instigated through special signal words and phrases.

Group harassment happens, but this particular case has a lot of bizzare red flags.

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To be fair, stress can cause all manner of strange things to happen to the mind or body. With that said, this does seem like one of those situations where the best solution is probably for the OP to just go cold turkey and leave the game entirely or seek out a fresh start with a brand new account so that those in opposition cannot track or trace her.

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Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

It shouldn’t really get to this point in the first place? Blocking exists. Blacklist exists. Name change exists. There’s so many ways you can prevent it and go in the opposite direction. It’s an online game, if people can’t handle it then they shouldn’t really be online.

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name changes change absolutely nothing, as your id stays the same and can be easily googled