What to do about harrassment

[Dingledorf]

What can you do about harassment when in-game tickets and reports do nothing?

I know someone who has been dealing with someone who has been trying to smear their name for nearly a year. They have been making alts with the same name on different servers and coming to their home server to try and slander them in /shout with cruel and perverse words.

They have followed them around in-game, worked around the block list, deleting and recreating alts, and have caused so much grief for this person. The harassment has extended out of game; following them on twitter, steam, accessing IRL information. While I know nothing can be done about the latter, nothing has been done about everything in game. Numerous people have reported this person, but they are still around, still harassing friends of mine.

They do not want to post here out of fear of this person seeing this.

Is there some other way to report this kind of harassment to SquareEnix and actually get results?

[Ranaku]

Depending on the country you are living in you could report it to your local police. So they can do exactly what SE is doing, nothing!

[Xaphire]

Try closing your eyes. The pixels on the screen can't hurt you.

[Dingledorf]

Try closing your eyes. The pixels on the screen can't hurt you.

Normally I would agree, ignore it and move on, but the harassment has extended beyond the game.

[Bunnycake]

Try closing your eyes. The pixels on the screen can't hurt you.

Doxxing is a serious thing tho not a pixel thing

[Renalt]

Take screenshots. Get times and dates. Submit those.

Your friend should take pride in the fact they have such a large grip on that persons life that they are willing to go to such measures for such a long time. If someone did any of the sort to me at halve the tenacity they are...I'd laugh in their face with how pathetic they are acting.

[Vahlnir]

By the sound of things, it has gone well beyond anything SE can really do. If I were the victim, I would still try and file a report with SE, but I would also be going to the local authorities to try and get the ball rolling in an attempt to stop them.

[SweetestLily]

Try closing your eyes. The pixels on the screen can't hurt you.

Did you bother to read the part where he said they are accesing real life information and it has extended beyond the game when you thought of this earth shattering reply?

[Dingledorf]

They are not sure how to handle this with the authorities. My friend is in the US while this other person, they are pretty sure, is in the UK.

It is frustrating.

[SweetestLily]

They are not sure how to handle this with the authorities. My friend is in the US while this other person, they are pretty sure, is in the UK.

It is frustrating.

as someone who has just gone through this, and had the individual show up to my front door irl, i am with you. i hope everything gets resolved, it is truly terrifying.