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[Remish]

I seen a youtube video earlier about that Bill Murray guy. Someone dropped his lodestone ID in the youtube comments so people could keep following him through name changes. Now I don't condone what Bill did. But the fact that it's as simple as dropping a lodestone ID in a comment section is all it takes to stalk a person eternally is really alarming to say the least.

[Senn]

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Don't know anything about it. What happened?

[caffe_macchiato]

Private lodestone profiles would mean I can’t dig up someone’s profile and ad hom them on the forums for how bad they are at the game. Which kinda defeats the purpose of the OF.

Does anyone expect Square Enix Holdings co., Ltd. to invest in decent online infrastructure? This is the same company that made FFXIV 1.0, Forespoken, and Foamstars. A broken clock is right twice a day, and it’s published exactly two good games in the past decade (FFXIV and FF7R). Don’t count on them caring about stalking and privacy anytime soon.

[Remish]

Don't know anything about it. What happened?

This video link probably explains it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8spqIpQBfM

TL;DR, This guy named Bill who ran the Achievement hunting discord for NA was caught cheating and using hacks. Was called out, reported and other things. In a fit of rage he deleted the discord and now the FFXIV community has seen to it that he get's banned from several discords like Balance, Revival Wings, PvP, and other things so that he is basically incapable of ever enjoying the game, since he lied, gloated, bragged, and was a hypocrite. Rumor has it that he name changed and still uses mods/hacks to cheat so his lodestone is put on public blast so people can keep tabs on his whereabouts. Things got so bad, he deleted his Twitter, Twitch, and Patreon to go into hiding. He was a somewhat successful small time content creator before this. Additionally, he was supposedly caught buying clears. The people he bought clears from leaked his logs and client information to prove he bought carries from them. But the thing that has the community up in arms is that he used speed hacks in Rival Wings and then tried to act like he wasn't cheating.

[Senn]

This video link probably explains it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8spqIpQBfM

TL;DR, This guy named Bill who ran the Achievement hunting discord for NA was caught cheating and using hacks. Was called out, reported and other things. In a fit of rage he deleted the discord and now the FFXIV community has seen to it that he get's banned from several discords like Balance, Revival Wings, PvP, and other things so that he is basically incapable of ever enjoying the game, since he lied, gloated, bragged, and was a hypocrite. Rumor has it that he name changed and still uses mods/hacks to cheat so his lodestone is put on public blast so people can keep tabs on his whereabouts. Things got so bad, he deleted his Twitter, Twitch, and Patreon to go into hiding.

Wow. I really don't condone what either side is doing here. I think some people just have sick satisfaction harassing others and feel justified in doing so. Yeah they cheated and should be reported. It's wrong and action should be taken on their account for violating ToS for sure, but having other players take it upon themselves to track this guy... Just report it and let GM's handle it. Crazy.
Does this guy get harassed via /tells?

[Remish]

Wow. I really don't condone what either side is doing here. I think some people just have sick satisfaction harassing others and feel justified in doing so. Yeah they cheated and should be reported. It's wrong and action should be taken on their account for violating ToS for sure, but having other players take it upon themselves to track this guy... Just report it and let GM's handle it. Crazy.
Does this guy get harassed via /tells?

I'm not sure. I have heard other stories that after this incident happened, he was supposedly sexually harassing women. Flexing his achievement score to get women to want to be romantically involved with him but I haven't seen any proof to back those claims up.

[DPZ2]

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There is zero excuse for that level of personal harassment from anyone who plays this game. Present evidence to SE for a possible ban? Sure. But this ... it's way overboard, regardless of how ticked off someone might be.

[SeiyaSoiya]

I'm not sure. I have heard other stories that after this incident happened, he was supposedly sexually harassing women. Flexing his achievement score to get women to want to be romantically involved with him but I haven't seen any proof to back those claims up.

huh, "sexually harassing women" is one of the most common accusations everyone gets on the internet, I stopped believing this sort of stuff after the 2nd time it turned out to be just vindictive people trying to pile on stuff on someone they didn't like

[SassyAssassin]

I'm not sure. I have heard other stories that after this incident happened, he was supposedly sexually harassing women. Flexing his achievement score to get women to want to be romantically involved with him but I haven't seen any proof to back those claims up.

What woman gets the hots for that?

[MsMisato]

I seen a youtube video earlier about that Bill Murray guy. Someone dropped his lodestone ID in the youtube comments so people could keep following him through name changes. Now I don't condone what Bill did. But the fact that it's as simple as dropping a lodestone ID in a comment section is all it takes to stalk a person eternally is really alarming to say the least.

I mean he kind of did it too myself. From what I understood he got caught cheating and his account should have been perma banned. the game is ridiculously easy for most things barring savage and ultimates. I also heard lodestone character id number doesn't change and its a fixed thing server side as long as someone has that, they can always find the character information, but thats just what I heard. The dude took a chance with cheating and got busted by the discord and such. bur people rely on the data for more accurate player population and such because of said achievements being public.