Square Enix Does not care about Stalking/Harassment In Game

[MilkieTea]

so lock the house with him inside?
Interesting

Yep. No need to keep the house locked up forever - just do enough for him to break a rule explicitly enough that a GM needs to intervene immediately.

[Solowing]

This is also their fault though.

Why can't we outright prevent one individual from entering a house? Why does an entire FC have to close its doors to outsiders because one person decided to be a creep?

Because Square refuses to give us the tools to deal with stalking/harassment properly.

Why do they need to create a entirely new system when you can ignore them and pretend they arnt there?

[TristanX]

There is one more way. Build yourself a "flameshield". It will take time for you to get used to it. You can pretend he's not even there.

Take up customer service job if you are up for it. All the complaints and rage from customers will make you get used to it. You cannot flame them at all on jobs like this. You'll eventually get used to it pretending this fella is not even there until he's done flaming.

Eventually these type of people will leave you alone.

[Curisu]

It sounds like he wants to annoy you and your FC and to get attention.

Ignoring is the best thing you can do.
If he does not get the attention he wants then he just leaves you or might take it further into the extremes

When he takes it further then he eventually will break the rules and a GM has a easy case to do something.

[anguel]

Why do they need to create a entirely new system when you can ignore them and pretend they arnt there?

says the guy that is the subject of this topic ! lol

[Doc_Seraph]

eh lock it up kupo <3 ...In the real if you just left your door unlocked ..what do you expect? lol kupo <3

Can't really have a breaking and entering without closed locked kupo <3

[gotaname1]

SE cares about harrasing streamers getting massreported ...by banning that streamer to be done with the blatant targeted reporting.

[Bunnykin_M]

A couple years ago, there was a player on Hyperion that was harassing and stalking others on the server as well as shouting racial epithets, proclaiming that any members of a specific race getting near their place of business would be shot, and more A friend of mine (person of color) got messages calling him a slave coupled with violent rhetoric. This guy was reported by numerous people on Hyperion.

To the friend who was being targeted by him directly, the GMs told him to just blacklist him. The thing was that blacklist just removes speech. All this person did to the people he figured had blacklisted him was to /laugh and /laugh around them via emotes and to play high pitched piercing tones in bard performance. All reports about this player were met with the same rubbish--that the team took these reports seriously and suggestions of blacklisting. This player was put in GM jail at least once. They bragged about it in shout chat. It took at least 3-4 mos before this person had their account suspended.

Then he came back. Same player name but inverted this time, same character model. Same behaviors, same targeting. Laughing about how he'd just buy another account if terminated again. Did the GMs terminate that account once the reports started rolling in again? No. It took another few months of reports. SE's lack of response was disturbing.

I've seen players harassed & even doxxed in-game & the GMs do nothing. Today, I'm trying to digest all of what I've seen in terms of inaction with racism & violent rhetoric, stalking while knowing that my fc's leader, who has never been talked to by a GM, never stepped foot in GM jail just had her account completely terminated without warning for "third party tools".

[Chie_M]

A couple years ago, there was a player on Hyperion that was harassing and stalking others on the server as well as shouting racial epithets, proclaiming that any members of a specific race getting near their place of business would be shot, and more A friend of mine (person of color) got messages calling him a slave coupled with violent rhetoric. This guy was reported by numerous people on Hyperion.

To the friend who was being targeted by him directly, the GMs told him to just blacklist him. The thing was that blacklist just removes speech. All this person did to the people he figured had blacklisted him was to /laugh and /laugh around them via emotes and to play high pitched piercing tones in bard performance. All reports about this player were met with the same rubbish--that the team took these reports seriously and suggestions of blacklisting. This player was put in GM jail at least once. They bragged about it in shout chat. It took at least 3-4 mos before this person had their account suspended.

Then he came back. Same player name but inverted this time, same character model. Same behaviors, same targeting. Laughing about how he'd just buy another account if terminated again. Did the GMs terminate that account once the reports started rolling in again? No. It took another few months of reports. SE's lack of response was disturbing.

I've seen players harassed & even doxxed in-game & the GMs do nothing. Today, I'm trying to digest all of what I've seen in terms of inaction with racism & violent rhetoric, stalking while knowing that my fc's leader, who has never been talked to by a GM, never stepped foot in GM jail just had her account completely terminated without warning for "third party tools".

Exactly why I've decided to quit XIV. I've needed to pursue an IRL restraining order against an XIV stalker.

[AngelCheese77]

Exactly why I've decided to quit XIV. I've needed to pursue an IRL restraining order against an XIV stalker.

That is terrible to hear.

Some tears ago I had a member in my FC whose IRL neighbor was stalking and harassing them in game. Thankfully they were able to make the neighbor stop that behavior, but still hearing such things going on in a game … shame.