Quote Originally Posted by YukinoAmidala View Post
How so? I can already see your character name on this forum, does that mean I now know your name irl? Of course not. If we party together in game I can see your character name and your damage data from the battle log. All publicly on display to me without the need of a parser or fflogs.

parsers and fflogs do not identify you as an individual it identifies a character in a video game that you do not own.
Wordgames like those is why they added "indirectly". Also identifying someone as an individual doesn't mean you know everything about that person, it means you know enough to be able to tell that one person from another.