getting kicked from end game pfs as soon as I join?

[HyoMinPark]

Logs are not much useful today, because poisoned by all the BiS groups running multiple log runs at o9s and making a normal, legit performance of someone at i370 appear like garbage.
Log runs and clears are two different things.

While a lot of the 99th percentile is padded runs, that doesn't mean people still can't get good parses from a "legitimate" run. I regularly get high purples (85+), and a couple weeks ago I got a 95 in Chaos and I'm not even BiS yet - I'm missing my weapon and body piece. And the AST in my group doesn't feed me single-target Balances.

If you're running i370 in Alphascape when the cap is now i400, of course your logs are going to look poor at this point in the tier. You should be in better gear for the later fights anyways.

Nice hyperbole though.

Process:

You create an account to construct your Avatar.
You then create your name.
Your name, your avatar is under your account.

If you wish to look up my name, Opal Valentine, it's easy as using the search Bar.

Which makes it public information—your in-game name is not protected by any sort of privacy law in any country. It’s public knowledge on this forum and on the Lodestone. And you cannot hide it.

You can still be "Dox" by anyone through this third party tool.

Do tell how you can retrieve a person’s personal information using a tool that reads public data from the game’s Battle Log.

I've read everyone's responses and not one has stayed on course of the OP's inquiry. Only one player here spoke on the repercussions of using this Log and everyone speaks on segregation.

Plenty of people gave OP reasons why they may have been kicked; it’s extremely hard to even know considering there was very little information given other than they were joining Alphascape Savage parties as a SAM. It seems it only happened twice, because they only listed two incidents in a later response, so it’s hardly something to get up in arms over.

Discussing a tangent that was brought up in the OP’s post and on page 1 isn’t against the rules. Conversations evolve.

If I hide my log, it's my information I wish to hide. If anyone were to kick me for it or ask and I refuse to let them know of it, that's harassment and I have that right to report you. If you were to place on your PF "I parse at this percentile. I have my proof; please show yours", then you're at LEAST being honest. Granted, I will avoid you like a plague, but I won't go after you for it.

Party leaders are allowed to kick whomever they wish from their PFs for whatever reason they wish. That’s not harassment. Harassment would be if they sent you /tells after kicking you pestering you about your logs. But simply asking and kicking when you don’t give them is not harassment: you didn’t meet their PF requirements, and they’re allowed to removed you. They aren’t required to take you, regardless of your personal preferences.

On the other hand, even having high damage output doesn't guarantee a clear especially if you're in a matched group. [b]There are console players that don't even use this, and other numeral contributing factors on the accuracy of the logs.

Speaking specifically on the bolded part here: the “accuracy of the logs” comes from the game’s Battle Log itself. Are you insinuating that the game’s Battle Log lies about its data? Just because PS4 players cannot use a parser doesn’t mean that the data is suddenly inaccurate. Please elaborate.

So no, Dzian Cielo IS an online identifier. If you, like every other player in this game, have a Facebook page based on your character, an Instagram, a Twitter, it can definitely lead to your personal information that anyone and everyone can find.

And, how so? Tell me, how does my in-game name lead to any of my personal data? If “Hyomin Park” was so sensitive, wouldn’t it make sense for it to be hidden on the Forum and the Lodestone as well? But it’s not. “Hyomin Park” gives you none of the personal information that would be protected under any sort of privacy laws, such as real name, address, billing information, applicable identification numbers (e.g., Driver’s License number, Social Security Number, etc.), demographical information, etc..

The only way people can get to your personal data is by hacking your account, in which case they don’t need your character name for, but your username and password.


I’ve read a few sites about this GDPR, and everything I read lists “online identifiers” as things like nationality, demographical information, information about a person’s physical or mental health, etc.. Nowhere have I seen it list online usernames as falling under what an “online identifier” is. Your character name tells me very little about who your real person is, just like mine does to you.

And it is definitely against violation of GDPR. It not only has anything to do with real-life identity, but of the intent of the use of a ToS-breaking third party tool.

From everything I have read, the GDPR seems to be EU only. The world is not the EU. It’s very likely it doesn’t have any jurisdiction outside of the EU, meaning that you cannot use it as a law to block this data in any other country. Like Japan, where this game is based, or the US or Oceania or Canada.

Link: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...5bd14ffec4345f

Quote: "we would like to remind players that using third-party programs, parsers, or other tools to conduct actions players would not normally be able to do in the game is a violation of the Terms of Service, and will be dealt with strict disciplinary action."

The developers are very aware people parse. They have watched Twitch streams with parsers active and nothing has happened to those players. So long as people don’t use them to abuse others, they don’t do anything—it’s very “don’t ask, don’t tell”.

Inb4 I’m met with “uploading my performance without my permission is abuse”, no, it’s not.