Option to privatize or opt-out of lodestone displaying character. Show your support!

[Senn]

WoW has Armory which basically is the same but I think it has even more information but the link to a players Armory is site+server+name so I am 99% sure if you name change the link wont bring you to the same profile anymore. Also the only way to not be in Armory is to not log in/subscribe for a very long time, be a character that is under level 10 and being in middle of a server/realm transfer progress

That seems a lot better than the lodestone. At the very least, the armory doesn't link your current profile with your old username.

[Rilifane]

The armory link changes with the name/ server.
While I never searched for an opt-out or found it, a name change would make your character impossible to track. Someone would have to remember a lot of information and then manually look through e.g. a guild or even an entire server roster to see if a character matches these informations.

[FireMage]

imagine thinking you cant be.

It's the internet, people only know what you give out

I'm just going to ask you to please be more familiarized with the Koike Incident.

That's a Google Docs glossary for terms used by the Japanese fanbase. Among them (just use CTRL + F) you should find a reference to the "Koike Incident". Where a female player was harassed and stalked in-game.

It was so bad that Foxclon had to make an official statement on it in the middle of a livestream.

And that's not even getting into the several cases on Reddit and on these OF's, both in English and otherwise, of people bringing awareness to cases of stalking.

And I know how you tend to be. You'll likely say that I'm trash and my input doesn't matter, but I don't care and I don't mind. Just please be mindful, because these things do happen.

See above. They were harassed by the way, not stalked. There is a significant difference

[VoidLotus]

I'd be all for this. I was stalked for years in the previous MMORPG I played, since people were able to track everything; ultimately ended up quitting partially because of it.

[Zomkei]

I'm happy to know that removing someone from your friendlist will also remove you from their list as well in a later update.

can someone confirm this to be true? and if so, when do they plan to release this?

[Eraden]

I'd be all for this. I was stalked for years in the previous MMORPG I played, since people were able to track everything; ultimately ended up quitting partially because of it.

Mao just sad that peoples going through this sort of thing. Is supposed to be game for having funs!

[Gwen_Lavellan]

My husband having a player stalking him in game since a few years, I’m all for it.
Even with a name change, that person can find him too easily. ^^;

[Senn]

can someone confirm this to be true? and if so, when do they plan to release this?

Here's a link: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ch_option_qol/
I don't know when this feature is coming exactly.

[Senn]

I'd be all for this. I was stalked for years in the previous MMORPG I played, since people were able to track everything; ultimately ended up quitting partially because of it.

My husband having a player stalking him in game since a few years, I’m all for it.
Even with a name change, that person can find him too easily. ^^;

Thank you for your support! Please consider liking the original post of this thread if you haven't already. Hopefully change can be made.

[Final-Fantasy]

Like this post if you want the option to privatize or opt-out from having your character information (including name and character appearance) publically displayed on lodestone.

We need an option to completely hide our Character on its lodestone URL, so if someone navigated to say /YourCharactersIDHere/ (the characters unique ID number) the page would not show anything at all, just a message (This Character cannot be viewed). The same would apply to a name search, say Kitty Cat on Seraph, it should only show the name in text form with a message saying (This Character cannot be viewed).

One more incredibly important thing we need is, when YOU remove someone from YOUR friend list, YOU must be removed from THEIR friend list, this needs asap attention, and it needs to also affect the lodestone, YOU need to be removed on any NON friend, friend list on lodestone, so there is NO possible way to stalk someone.