Friendslist and Blacklist needs fixing

[ThatQEDguy]

On mobile so forgive the formatting and errors.

I believe the blacklist and friends list needs to be looked at asap. As they stand, they open up people to being stalked and put more power into those would-be abusers.

If you are mutual friends with someone and you suffered abuse from them, as soon as you unfriend and blacklist them, you haven given them a ton of power over you. Whenever you unfriendly someone, it only does it for your side. You will still be on their friends list until they remove you. The only thing the blacklist does is the following:
Sending tells
Teleporting to your house/apartment/FC(From your menu)
Joining your PF
Trading
Inspecting your adventure plate

Things unconfirmed, but possible:
Porting to your house/fc if you use someone else's port list


Here is what they can do(if prior friends):
See your online status(includes duties you're in or other worlds)
See your search info
Request melds/repairs
(If following) lodestone info
Join parties if someone else is leader

Additional info:
If you were Eternal bonded with someone and you rescind the bond, It only does it for your end. Their ring will still work to teleport to you. This is unacceptable regardless of what mindset Yoshi P has.

I know some suggested ways to combat this is to report them. But it's very hard to prove that someone is stalking you if you port to the same area. They could easily say they just happened to go there for a unrelated reason. It's also hard to know if any action was taken since generally, you don't get any notification if anything was done.

The only way to be rid of someone attempting to stalk you is to completely move Data Regions since DC travel is a thing now. This should not be a thing still yet it still is. I understand that Yoshi P doesn't want to do it because of a JP mindset, but he needs to come to terms that bad people play this game and he needs to protect players.

I really hope I'm not the only one that sees this as an issue.

Q: When I delete a person from my friends list, I want my character to disappear from theirs, as well!

Yoshida: That would lead to the problem of “Why did he delete me?” and might cause trouble, so we didn’t do that on purpose.

Full interview:https://gamerescape.com/2019/01/04/y...-yoshi-p-walk/

[Nikoto]

I think that also, blacklisting someone should make them unable to see what I'M typing. You can argue that can be abused, but it's much better than the alternative.

Better yet, would be nice if their playermodel was deleted on my client outside of instances.

[ThatQEDguy]

The player model thing would be nice, but like they need to completely lock down everything else. It's insane that you can openly request repairs from someone you don't want to interact with.

[EnigmaticDodo]

Yeah this has been a problem for a while. I recall some small outlet coverage on it, but it never went anywhere. Might need to pressure them with more stories.

[Aurida]

God, yes. If I blacklist someone, they and any information related to them shouldn't show up on my screen, and I and any information related to me shouldn't show up on theirs, with the exception of if we're in the same duty, which it would ALSO be nice if it prevented but i understand the logistical nightmare.

The multitude of tools given to players that want to stalk others is frankly staggering and there's next to no enforcement on it- its not even enough that they can see your exact in game location at all times, including whether you're in a party or duty so that if you're farming something they can attempt to sync queues with you to grief.

If nothing else, please give us the ability to hide our current in-game location from showing up in places like the friends list, linkshells, novice network, and player search. There needs to be a way to where the game won't hand your current location and activity to anyone interested in finding you.

[KairiElise]

The ability to follow someone’s lodestone should be changed. It gives stalkers exactly what they want if they are dead set on finding you or what you are up to. If they can’t see that you’re online all they have to do is head over to lodestone to track you. It makes changing your name, using a Fantasia, and changing Data centers useless because all they have to do is follow it to know exactly where you are. Sorry if this has happened to you. There are some crazies out there.

[ThatQEDguy]

It didn't happen to me personally, but after seeing numerous stories, I decided to take a deeper look into the systems and see how bad it was. It was kinda shocking. The only good thing about the lodestone is that it doesn't update in real time. I can't imagine if it did. I did not check the official app though.

[Chie_M]

After numerous data center transfers, name changes, and ultimately getting the police involved, I was left with no recourse but to start over to escape the stalker I acquired through this game. (No, Momochi isn't my new main.)

[Allegor]

Honestly, at the very least, if we unfriend/blacklist someone, we should appear as "unable to retrieve" on their side, just like it does (did?) when world/DC transferring.

[NekoMataMata]

This game enables creeps so much. They need to change these things or we as players should start shaming them for being such enablers.