SE Please start caring about your players privacy.

[Connor]

Isn’t this a pretty major breach of ‘virtually personal’ data? Like whether or not it’s illegal is a different story (cuz virtual) but that doesn’t change the fact that information is being made public that never should have been i.e last know location in game. I mean, imagine if you could get that kind of information on someone irl the same way*? People would be terrified lol.

Like isn’t this a potentially crushing blow to FFXIV’s legitimacy?
‘Come play our MMO where all your stalkers can track you at any given moment and we’ll delete your feedback threads about the issue’

How is anyone supposed to trust a dev team that not only enables these issues in the first place, but clearly has no intention of dealing with such a significant problem anytime in the near future. We’ll be lucky if even see them acknowledge the issue in late March when 7.2 comes out. I feel like if this happened in any other MMO it’d be red alert air raid sirens immediately until it was resolved - even if it’s just a ‘band-aid fix’ to begin with

* I’m well aware people do this irl but that doesn’t somehow make doing it virtually any less unforgivable, especially for the victim(s)