Quote Originally Posted by Exmo View Post
Handling blacklisting client-side is likely vastly more performant than handling it server-side. But yeah, they're probably reluctant to spend millions on globally migrating their servers to better hardware in unison simply to facilitate a blacklisting feature. Reasonable to be fair.
There wouldn’t have been any need for migration if they had done it correctly the first time. But as I mentioned in my response to Rueby, this situation is already out of hand. From my perspective, here’s what might happen: the game could lose even more players because people will feel unsafe or get stalked. New players might hear about these issues and decide not to even start, which could push FFXIV further toward a free-to-play (F2P) model.

If that happens, they might begin selling quality-of-life features in the shop, eventually transitioning fully to F2P and suffering the same fate as Aion. I really hope I’m wrong about this. Still, if people leave, they’re going to lose those millions of dollars anyway, so I’m not sure what’s the bigger risk in the end.

Maybe I’m wrong, and nothing will happen. Maybe SE will manage to quietly sweep this under the rug and move on successfully. But right now, the uncertainty is troubling.