Quote Originally Posted by Amenara View Post
Obviously I wasn't talking about random encounters in Limsa or wherever. I agree with the idea behind what you are saying, I am just saying there should be better tools in game to fight harassment without resorting to calling a GM and waiting on them to investigate while still dealing with it. There is no rational reason for staying on someone's friends list if you delete them off your own. There should be better options for controlling access to your house other than everyone can come in or no one can come in.
Can you (or anyone reading) speak of what better tools other MMOs offer to handle this sort of thing? It's always easy to ask for better tools but that doesn't mean it's easy (or even possible) for a game developer to implement them depending on what gets stored client side and what is stored server side.

It wasn't better in WoW. In WoW, someone didn't even have to get your consent to add you to their in-game friend list (it was required for the Battle.net friend list and removing a friend there removed you from their list) or track your location using /who. Adding the player to your Ignore list had more or less the same effect that the blacklist has here. You wouldn't see their chat messages but they could still end up in a party with you through Dungeon Finder or Group Finder.

I played a few other MMOs years ago but never had that much player interaction because I couldn't really get into those games so I can't say what tools they might have had outside of the usual blacklist/ignore list (which I can't recall feeling a new to use in them).