Correct. The data for at least 750k characters is already out there.

"Thanks" to the plugins ability to also track the location of these characters, it's possible to link them to houses and other players.

Even changing the ID and name won't change anything now.

For example, if Player A (ID 1234) is in FC Y and PVP group Alpha and also owns house Limsa 1-1, people with access to the database can just look at this FC after any ID or name change.

Even worse when they now know that Player A (ID 1234), Player B (ID 1235), and Player C (ID 1236) always sit on the same bench in Limsa. Doesn't matter if they are now Player G (ID 7393), Player U (ID AHEG), and Player 3 (ID 4T0J).


The only solution for anyone not already in this database is for SE to revert the changes to the blacklist or to remove the sharing of unique IDs. That also means lodestone. Remove the ID in the url and use something like Firstname.Lastname@server@datacenter or something. I mean, that is unique enough for something like this.

People already in the database are out of luck. Their data will be tracked forever now and no kind of ID change or name change can change that. They would have to start a complete new character after SE fixes this somehow and would not even be allowed to play like they did before. The same friends, possibly already in the database? Yeah, pretty obvious who this "new" character belongs to.

I feel like people are not freaking out enough about this. This is a massive issue.