Blocklisting / reporting is extremely difficult in 2022

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The ability to blacklist/blocklist should not be dependent on a character being in your presence / able to be targeted. It's incredibly frustrating needing to have someone right-there in the moment, or in your contacts / recent players.

(https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...d/7bc2a961456/)

The /blacklist /blist command(s) would be so much more effective if you could specify a character by string, rather than a deep-linked target. I shouldn't need to hunt someone down after already having an undesirable experience with them, just to ensure we don't cross paths again. I'd even settle for searching them via Player Search (I can right click to send a tell, why can't I also blocklist from that menu?).

There are some people I simply want to block based on their PF search details, either being rude, or crass, or otherwise, yet I need to have an interaction with them to do so.

Moreover, people you do blocklist shouldn't be permitted to broadcast emotes, interactions, etc. at/around you (i.e. they should be hidden from your perspective). I can't tell you how many times someone has been blocked, but still will emote spam as a mode of harassment.

This leads me to reporting. It feels incredibly obtuse that the only built in report feature is limited to RMT, and you need to go through several menu options to direct a complaint.

For all of the hard work done on this game over the years, I'm really surprised to see features integral to keeping players safe implemented how they presently are