The End of Stalking, Blacklist & Lodestone

[CidHeiral]

I just looked over the slides. From what they presented there seems to be a loophole with estate expulsion as it only appears to be initiated if you are both there. After their 10-day ban they could return to your home while you are not there and leave something in your message book potentially.

If they're on your blacklist they get ejected immediately any time they try to enter. The 10-day timeout is a separate function.

[MsMisato]

The new Blacklist update is exactly what I had wished for (for 7.0), it completely ends Stalking both from within the game and out.

Being account wide is exactly what we've been needing, the fact it will hide the name, character model and even chat from a blacklisted player, even in a duty (won't hide the model, but you won't see the name or the players chat if you don't want to).
It is as good as Deleting a blacklisted player from the game!

Can't wait to hide my profile and remove my character from the lodestone search.

Not to mention being able to block access to your Estate so blacklisted players can no longer enter the yard and the house itself!

Thanks Yoshi-P!

Who else is happy about this incoming update!?

while i am excited there are certain sites they will still have your character information and character name sadly or work on trail accounts.

[QiyoJoyo]

Can i ask, what the hell is bad about lodestone, or why there is such a "stalker" problem in this game?

I mean i play now 3 years and never had a problem with stalkers... what is wrong with people!

[Boblawblah]

Can i ask, what the hell is bad about lodestone, or why there is such a "stalker" problem in this game?

I mean i play now 3 years and never had a problem with stalkers... what is wrong with people!

Why do people make dozens of alts just to troll a specific group of people? People are weird little friend, people are weird.

[caffe_macchiato]

Also, why is it some people seem to think they have a right to go to venues? I really don't get it. In America, you can be told not to come back for being a dick in a public space that's privately owned.

Which is why, in my post, I indicated that unrelated parties will also be affected. In the American FFXIV community, people are penalized for actions committed by others. For example, in the user-generated content community, person A made an asset that people use but said a slur a few years ago. Person B uses that asset. The community has a blanket blacklist on all associations with person A, meaning that person B will also be blacklisted. This is how the venue scene operates as well, particularly on Primal where turf wars are common. If you're an affiliate of someone, you're guilty by association. In my personal experience, this also happens in Balmung FCs.

I just find it funny how WoW never has this problem because it pivoted to gameplay over RP a long time ago. Yoshida keeps flooding us with casual and RP "content" at the expense of people looking to play a video game, such as spending every LL for Dawntrail so far on social features, grass and eyeballs. This game is a catastrophic disappointment because it leaves people with nothing to do but fight over petty drama. Western FFXIV players need to be managed, not simply provided for.

[Fyrebrand]

This is amazing news for players who have stalkers and creeps harassing them. Should have had at least some of these features available long ago, but late is better than never!

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Which is why, in my post, I indicated that unrelated parties will also be affected. In the American FFXIV community, people are penalized for actions committed by others. For example, in the user-generated content community, person A made an asset that people use but said a slur a few years ago. Person B uses that asset. The community has a blanket blacklist on all associations with person A, meaning that person B will also be blacklisted. This is how the venue scene operates as well, particularly on Primal where turf wars are common. If you're an affiliate of someone, you're guilty by association. In my personal experience, this also happens in Balmung FCs.

I just find it funny how WoW never has this problem because it pivoted to gameplay over RP a long time ago. Yoshida keeps flooding us with casual and RP "content" at the expense of people looking to play a video game, such as spending every LL for Dawntrail so far on social features, grass and eyeballs. This game is a catastrophic disappointment because it leaves people with nothing to do but fight over petty drama. Western FFXIV players need to be managed, not simply provided for.

Sounds likeaa self inflicted problem. They aren't going to moderate your social interactions due to your mod usage lmao.

[Vyrerus]

I think this is a great thing overall, but I can't help but feel like it will lead to its own breed of new drama, and to mods that attempt to circumvent it and perhaps mods to like idk, link blacklists together or something in order to try and ostracize people from certain groups if there's individual beef.

Probably just paranoid, but I expect to see people lording this sort of thing about in manners almost as strange as stalking.

[fantasiaaddict]

It just makes me wonder if venue advertisers will try and change their text in chat to avoid players mute filters. Like instead of "Club" getting muted, they can just say "C1ub", along with "V3nue" or "DeeJ" instead of "DJ". Maybe there could be a system where you make a muted word, and then you can add similar words within that word to avoid this? I don't think we're going to get rid of RMT sellers anytime soon even with mute filters, considering how much randomness they put in their messages already, it will be hard to find a specific keyword to mute them.

[Boblawblah]

I just find it funny how WoW never has this problem because it pivoted to gameplay over RP a long time ago. Yoshida keeps flooding us with casual and RP "content" at the expense of people looking to play a video game, such as spending every LL for Dawntrail so far on social features, grass and eyeballs. This game is a catastrophic disappointment because it leaves people with nothing to do but fight over petty drama. Western FFXIV players need to be managed, not simply provided for.

I know I've asked this before, but I have to wonder why you're still here if you really believe what you're saying. I take it you haven't pre-ordered DT and won't be playing it?