How do you all deal with stalkers?

[Chie_M]

First, of course, I blacklisted. Then, he starting both following me around on his main, and making alt after alt after alt. I took screenshots and reported every instance of in-game stalking. I took screenshots of out-of-game events (ie, he kept adding me on sock puppets on Discord and Steam).

Materia opened, so I moved to Materia. He left his main on Mateus, and continued his army of alts to harass me on Materia. I continued to take screenshots and to report the behaviour, quoting the ever-growing list of prior ticket numbers in my reports.

SE never suspended his account. They very clearly do not take this seriously. So I deleted my main and started over again.

He used a third-party tool to pull my IP address from Discord. He would create sock puppets, join servers that he knew I was in, and then spam my IP address and my (now changed) universal gamer tag. He would threaten to sexually assault me.

As he was now acting outside of the game, I no longer needed to rely on Square Enix. I put all of my screenshots onto a USB and took it to the local police station. The stalking began when he claimed that he was in love with me, so I had his full legal name, city of residence, and several unsolicited pictures from him to aid in my police report.

I never heard from him again. But I still don't post on my main on the forums. I have a new discord account and I don't add people I haven't met IRL. I don't add people to my in-game friends list. And, unfortunately, I don't participate in the action-adventure RP community any more.

Edit: And before anybody tells me I just should have ignored him to make him go away, I did. I never responded to any of it. Real stalkers do not get bored. They get dangerous.

[Renalt]

tell them if they want to stalk me they are free to come see me in real life where I will chain them up in the basement and use them as my forever blood fountain.

Why hello. How you doin?

[EZGIL]

Why hello. How you doin?

[AiUsagi]

Myself, my FC, and my friends have been harassed for almost 5yrs now; as recently as today even. This person makes alts of my character and impersonates me to do it too.
Square Enix doesn't care at all.
https://imgur.com/a/tvXmAS8

[AiUsagi]

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ing-harassment

[Asari5]

i've always wondered about ingame stalkers. is this an american thing? all these stories about other players stalking others and yet in all my years i've never met someone who is actually getting stalked.
it seems so weird... stalking someone in a game? for years? i would be bored after 10min xD. its so weird that i really cant believe it. and also... its a game, nothing can happen to me. why should one player bother me while there are so many other players around? its just weird

[Renalt]

yes please.

[Canadane]

"Don't feed the trolls" is some archaic Internet rule that still applies today.
Literally just ignore them. They'll find something better to do.

[NanaWiloh]

yes please.

Makes me think of dungeon keeper rofl

[Chie_M]

"Don't feed the trolls" is some archaic Internet rule that still applies today.
Literally just ignore them. They'll find something better to do.

Tell me you didn't read the thread without telling me you didn't read the thread.