How to stop a stalker?

[Sparky]

Strange, I thought this would not be an issue in a game like FFXIV. Most of the time I am logged on I am in an instance where no one can send tells.

Every server has a few people like that. There's a particular player on my server who goes into emote spam mode every time he sees me, but I think he probably does it to everyone.

[LalaRu]

...I've been stalked... daily tells ... saying things like "it's our destiny to be together" and "I want to cling to my friend all day." ... have now blacklisted them... they follow me around... all-around nuisance... they've become a real creep and won't get the message ... sent a harassment report already... how do I get rid of a stalker that won't take a direct message to go away?

File a stalking report to your local police station and forward to Square Enix (signed paper letter, return receipt) a copy of that. It will be assured they will think twice about do that again in their IRL.

[HeroSamson]

File a stalking report to your local police station and forward to Square Enix (signed paper letter, return receipt) a copy of that. It will be assured they will think twice about do that again in their IRL.

They would do squat because the guy doesn't actually know where they live in RL don't base gaming life to real life police have enough problems as it is going out on real calls.

[Shneibel]

File a stalking report to your local police station and forward to Square Enix (signed paper letter, return receipt) a copy of that. It will be assured they will think twice about do that again in their IRL.

what if the dude doesnt live in his location ? what can the police do ?

[CYoung187]

File a stalking report to your local police station and forward to Square Enix (signed paper letter, return receipt) a copy of that. It will be assured they will think twice about do that again in their IRL.

Some police officer somewhere will be bashing their head against a wall. Keep contacting in game support, I imagine they could easily take care of this.

[Delorean]

so ignore them?

File a stalking report to your local police station and forward to Square Enix (signed paper letter, return receipt) a copy of that. It will be assured they will think twice about do that again in their IRL.

I think everyone is just going to laugh at them.

There are irrational women everywhere who watch too many movies that are weirded out by guys they do not find attractive who have expressed their interest in them and meet these guys on a pretty regular basis in real life. You can't just, like, ban that person from your workplace just because you don't like them.

These women just ignore these guys and tell them off whenever they bother them... It's not rocket science.

A lot of people like this have an extremely exaggerated perception of the person they are obsessing over. Break it and they usually just back off.

But fact of the matter is that this "harassment" has been completely ingame. If you ask me, you need more to go off of than someone telling you they are in love with your character to try to make the title "stalker" stick in any conversation with someone serious about helping you with your problem.

You blocked them... They cannot talk to you. Why does it matter if they are always near you? If they make another character to bother you, then feel free to file a complaint about harassment.

[Foo01]

so ignore them?
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You blocked them... They cannot talk to you. Why does it matter if they are always near you? If they make another character to bother you, then feel free to file a complaint about harassment.

If they follow you around they can still do shouts and such. And people shouldn't have to put with other people intruding into there personal space, real life, virtual, or otherwise.

SE need to make player search not return any location information for people not on the friends list. And that information should be able to be selectively turned off by the individual just like privacy policy. Eorzea is big enough such that if that information is off, you can not find anyone in a reasonable amount of time if they do not want to be found.

[Symphony42]

So apparently this goofball is still at it. I was spiritbonding and saw his character walk up to me using Stealth, then proceeded to spam crying and cheering emotes, followed by dancing. This was right after they were seen by a FC member doing emote spams near them in another map, so this tells me that it is a deliberate action to be following not only me, but probably everyone in my FC now too.

Since blacklisted people can still see what you say, but you can't see their texts, I'll probably start making shouts/yells towards them, calling them an annoyance or something. Maybe a link to them on another gaming board, showing them flipping out on people (found out a lot more than I wanted by searching the character name). I'd think the embarrassment would be enough to drive most anyone away, but at the same time I bet they would love the attention.

[Akujin]

snip.

If you're on a PC, you could try /telling the person the entire works of Shakespere in private tells.

Maybe it's just because I'm kind of an ass, but I see opportunity in your situation to turn the tables against the person. Shame we aren't on the same server.

[nakano13]

I wish I knew what you could do besides just reporting them again for harassment if it continues over and over...but the person does seem like someone who enjoys attention to begin with. Ignoring them completely would probably be better than shouting/yelling back at them, silence can be pretty deadly.