[Feedback] Blacklist is better, but not good enough.

[Supersnow845]

The blacklist is objectively worse than it used to be because now the blacklist shares data with the client so it’s incredibly easy to use a plugin to use one tiny bit of info to scope out every character linked to an account

The stalking plugin is such big news even yoshi p commented on it and they did a (hasty) fix (that didn’t fix it)

The old blacklist would be better at this point because at least it didn’t share data with the client

[Nadda]

The blacklist is objectively worse than it used to be because now the blacklist shares data with the client so it’s incredibly easy to use a plugin to use one tiny bit of info to scope out every character linked to an account

The stalking plugin is such big news even yoshi p commented on it and they did a (hasty) fix (that didn’t fix it)

The old blacklist would be better at this point because at least it didn’t share data with the client

The Old Blacklist would just mean the person would hang around you and not know you blacklisted them. At least now you shouldn't be able to see or interact with them.

My thing about the people bypassing the blacklist function is that they are doing what I consider is cyber stalking.

As much as it would be nice to prevent weirdos from being weirdos, in my opinion, once you cross the line of using third-party programs to bypass functionality to harass and stalk people, it's gone beyond the game's purview and entered more of a criminal realm of behavior.

Any reasonable person who is blacklisted by somebody would take the hint they are not welcome around that person anymore. So anybody who would bypass game functionality to continue to contact them is making a conscious effort to harass or stalk someone.

As much as it sucks that Square can't get ahead of this issue. If the distress of harassment and stalking is to such an extent that it affects the individual's peace of mind, they really ought to elevate this to a legal level not just a in game level. It's very important to recognize when harassment crosses from “annoying” into “criminal.”