SE's inability to protect players from stalking/harassment

[AiUsagi]

As long as names are hidden then screenshots are fine but anything that has people name on is due to naming and shaming. Those images I suggest go to support.

I can leave my own characters names tho, yeah?

[DerpyWhiskers]

IDK why but I read all pages of this thread, and I think my IQ actually dropped during the course of it lol.

Honestly though, as someone who has been stalked multiple times in multiple games, (girl), if you just try not making a big huge scene of it and go on about your gaming life, they do eventually go cling onto someone else. Throwing a tantrum and making a scene and being toxic in return only feeds them. [and yep I even had one (not from FF14) hack my account and post my irl addy and then show up to my irl house, and I held them at gunpoint till the cops came]. Don't feed the trolls, it's just a game, and if they show up irl then call the police. Done.

[ScarletDawn]

I can leave my own characters names tho, yeah?

I mean nothing wrong with showing your own name.

[AiUsagi]

https://imgur.com/a/1x7SzeY
Please, someone explain to me how this wasn't enough for SE to respond to her harassment? She was literally standing in MY FC house.

https://imgur.com/a/UKbln71

[Bobby66]

If I had to guess it is because if you used the tools like the blacklist feature then they would not have been able to talk with you, and if you had your house locked then they would not be able to enter. Do not have my glasses and the font is kinda blurry for my eyes, but honestly seems like this from an in game POV could have been solved with the tools they already have in place.

Edit: In short stop engaging with them, close off your house and let it go. You are fueling this by making a scene.

[AiUsagi]

If I had to guess it is because if you used the tools like the blacklist feature then they would not have been able to talk with you, and if you had your house locked then they would not be able to enter. Do not have my glasses and the font is kinda blurry for my eyes, but honestly seems like this from an in game POV could have been solved with the tools they already have in place.

It doesn't solve anything because she would just make an alt and loiter outside the property. She can still comment to me when she is blacklisted via the message book, so I still fail to see how the blacklist system is affective? I could lock the FC house, but again, how is that fair to me or my entire FC when we should be able to play this game harassment free. It's not right that I have to lock out everyone else because SE is incapable of proper mediation or providing features that would prevent this kind of stuff. Again, I wouldn't have been harassed if I was able to hide my location and my affiliations. I've done what I can to avoid the harassment/stalking. It is Square Enix that needs to realize their failures and do something to fix them so everyone can enjoy the game and not have to choose between being harassed by having an open house, or excluding everyone else entirely. It's total BS.

EDIT/ This forum is intended to raise awareness to these problems in game and my situation will serve as an example. Square Enix needs to fix their jank.

[FrogDog]

This thread makes me really scared for women in gaming

[ScarletDawn]

Just ignore? Like don't even acknowledge they exist its what I do when someone says something to me I dont like, I pretend they are not there.

[AiUsagi]

Just ignore? Like don't even acknowledge they exist its what I do when someone says something to me I dont like, I pretend they are not there.

I've tried everything; crazy fuels itself.
Edit/ But yes, logically that should work.

[KizuyaKatogami]

I too have been in there receiving end of stalking in the game, but as a man. Just wanted to go check out my static’s fc house and i had someone following me checking where i was 24/7. It was pretty scary tbh and the fact there’s not much that can be done for this is sad :/