SE's inability to protect players from stalking/harassment

[Theodric]

I love this game and I think we have the best community of any MMORPG. I just don't see harassment as the huge major game breaking issue you're trying to make it out to be.

The FFXIV community isn't all that great - I've had death threats thrown my way over lore speculation and liking/disliking specific characters. If you've managed to evade the more chaotic and unhinged elements? Great - but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[Veliaire]

The FFXIV community isn't all that great - I've had death threats thrown my way over lore speculation and liking/disliking specific characters. If you've managed to evade the more chaotic and unhinged elements? Great - but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Is this game perfect? No. Not at all. But try playing Starcraft II or WoW or literally any other online game and tell me FFXIV doesn't have a much better community. Yes, there will be people out there who are not nice. Welcome to the internet, but overall, FFXIV has an amazing community.

Has there been instances in which I've come across a not so nice person? Probably. I just don't let things like that weigh me down, especially since its so rare.

[SturmChurro]

Is this game perfect? No. Not at all. But try playing Starcraft II or WoW or literally any other online game and tell me FFXIV doesn't have a much better community. Yes, there will be people out there who are not nice. Welcome to the internet, but overall, FFXIV has an amazing community.

I've gotta be honest, I'd rather have a community that isn't afraid to voice their opinions - even if they are jerks - than this community where everyone is passive-aggressive, overly sensitive, and reports for anything and everything. Like someone said, you can be banned if you say a curse word and somebody - doesn't matter who - reports you. I actually do not think SE is very good at handling harassment. Like I said, earlier in this thread, they are heavy-handed.

Like the OP may have an actual stalker, but this supposed stalker knows exactly how to annoy the OP while avoiding punishment by SE. Whether it's true or not, it's not like there aren't people who do this. Many in this community know exactly how to skirt the line. I've said this before in other threads, but I'd argue this game's community is more "toxic" than many of the comparisons given.

[Mimilu]

Like the OP may have an actual stalker, but this supposed stalker knows exactly how to annoy the OP while avoiding punishment by SE. Whether it's true or not, it's not like there aren't people who do this. Many in this community know exactly how to skirt the line. I've said this before in other threads, but I'd argue this game's community is more "toxic" than many of the comparisons given.

Agreed.
Stalking is a harder thing for GMs to track because a stalker doesn't have to do anything that shows up in a chat log to do it.
Another issue is who's to say the stalker didn't get their account banned or terminated and just make another account? I think bans are account-based, not IP.
You'd be surprised how "petty" some of the community can be. >x>