Thoughts on the new RESTRICT act and it's impacts on MMO Players

[Vahlnir]

First of all- this bill affects US citizens, it hold no jurisdiction elsewhere in NA. other countries in NA do however no longer allow TikTok specifically to be installed on government employee mobile devices or computers, neither do various private/public companies, and there is under legislation under consideration.

The FFXIV servers are hosted in the US, so likely all personal data is hosted there, and as someone else pointed out Japan isn't on the watch list- and I really, really doubt there's a chance it ever would be.

Yeah. As things currently stand, as long as relations remain relatively civil between most countries, this will be a non-issue. Probably. It probably helps that I don't really use any weird apps, and my most foreign purchase is for Nexusmods and its premium membership, which is based in the UK. I get why people are concerned about overreach though, and I also understand that this is mostly a US concern at the moment. Normally my senses are tingling if I so much as catch a whiff of a deeper problem present, but I'm not getting those vibes from this.