Quote Originally Posted by Elkanah View Post
Is it time to hunt down their ip address and do the job manually?
They will just use a VPN. They could be running the game in a virtual environment too, masking their hardware specs. But I don't think SE is even capable of banning someone based on hardware with the current way their game works. SE obviously will value having freetrial players over the sub 0,1% playerbase which has issues like this one, so the only reasonable solution would be to limit what a free trial player can do. Unless friends with a player, they shouldn't be able to enter housing or use messaging books - would be a start. There was rumor once about a feature to be able to filter out other players based on your criteria, not sure if a mod can do that already. There could also be a chatfilter to not display messages from freetrial players for cases like this one.

This is all a development solution though, something GM's cant fix, devs do. FFXIV has abyssmal privacy and stalking protection - this has been an issue for years - maybe it is time to polish that image up a little Yoshida-san.

For the meantime the player can try to reduce their attack surface, e.g. by removing the messaging book, disable 'say chat' in chatfilter and stop posting updates here, as the stranger will probably enjoy to read the fruits of his lunacy. And it might also attract other weirdos. Wasting so much time on stalking though...someone is desperate.