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[Senn]

Part of the reason why I'm against it is kinda selfish and only concerns me, but I still keep tabs on a former "friend" and their new friends "two other" that change names as much as they drink fantasia...

Long story with unnecessary details aside, being tricked & hurt by them along with the crowd they started to attract was enough for me to start keeping track of who they were and if they happen to show up on the same world again, I'd have a heads up about who they were.

Not much care for the others, but the main "friend" was manipulative and freakishly different after their first move 2 years ago so I fell for this new person not knowing it was them all along. They pulled the same problems after seeming completely different and moved again...

That terrifies me a bit so having the option is both a curse and a blessing. I can change names and block out my info, but so can they on top of sounding and acting like a completely different person.
I know this isn't as dangerous as actual stalking and/or tracks back to real life, but this is my reason and why I said earlier it's selfish.
So again, on the fence for this.


I like how you kept it vague, leaving it a mystery is nice although I doubt it's that hard to figure out

It's really unfortunate that happened to you. Having a falling out with the people you thought were friends is rough. Are these people actively stalking you? Because if they are, I can only see how a feature to private your lodestone page and changing your name would benefit you in this situation.

Since Square will have all account information, I don't think the argument that this will protect bad-actors holds water.

More people need to understand this.

[Reinha]

Long story with unnecessary details aside, being tricked & hurt by them along with the crowd they started to attract was enough for me to start keeping track of who they were and if they happen to show up on the same world again, I'd have a heads up about who they were.

You don't need to track people on the lodestone if you just blacklist the people who offended you. Having the option to hide your own lodestone profile would protect you, not them.

If an a-hole makes themselves disappear and they are blackilisted, that's a desirable outcome isn't it? They're gone.

[Sesera]

You don't need to track people on the lodestone if you just blacklist the people who offended you. Having the option to hide your own lodestone profile would protect you, not them.

If they were in game friends even if Corrupted removed/BL them they can still see her in their friendlist so no matter if she changes name or hide lodestone they can still track her.

[Senn]

If they were in game friends even if Corrupted removed/BL them they can still see her in their friendlist so no matter if she changes name or hide lodestone they can still track her.

There is going to be an update soon to make it so if you remove someone from your friendlist, you will be removed on the other person's list too.

[Sesera]

There is going to be an update soon to make it so if you remove someone from your friendlist, you will be removed on the other person's list too.

That's neat then

Glad they're doing it.

[Avoidy]

Yeah I agree. This game's got a privacy issue in general, but the lodestone is like a stalker's wet dream. There are also third party tools that scrape data from the lodestone to give even more personal information like which linkshells they're in, whether or not they're likely to be married in game, etc.

There is going to be an update soon to make it so if you remove someone from your friendlist, you will be removed on the other person's list too.

Do you have a source on this? I want to believe it. Took them a decade to implement, but I'd love to see it. Better late than never.

[Senn]

Yeah I agree. This game's got a privacy issue in general, but the lodestone is like a stalker's wet dream. There are also third party tools that scrape data from the lodestone to give even more personal information like which linkshells they're in, whether or not they're likely to be married in game, etc.



Do you have a source on this? I want to believe it. Took them a decade to implement, but I'd love to see it. Better late than never.

Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ch_option_qol/

[IkaraGreydancer]

Is stalking really all that common or is it just blown up when it happens to seem like a bigger issue than it really is?

[Iyrnthota]

Is stalking really all that common or is it just blown up when it happens to seem like a bigger issue than it really is?

It's probably about as common as anywhere, but from what I've gathered it is notoriously easy to stalk someone in 14.

[IkaraGreydancer]

It's probably about as common as anywhere, but from what I've gathered it is notoriously easy to stalk someone in 14.

Interesting. I've had a stalker once but that was years ago. Folks generally give up if you don't give them attention in my experience.

I don't mind the idea of more privacy but it seems soon everyone is gonna want to keep to themselves for everything due to what could possibly happen. People already don't speak in content for fear of getting in trouble