SE Please start caring about your players privacy.

[Archmortal]

Would be funny if YoshiP's characters were found this way, I'm sure he'd act as fast as lightning.

It shouldn't take a developer having their own personal account information getting shared around by stalkers to get the point across that said stalkers are doing it to nearly the entire active playerbase and something needs to be done about it. If they try to lean on their hands-off approach to plug-ins even with THIS then I'll repeat what I've said before. They have no business keeping this game operational with so little regard for player safety.

I've spoken in favor of their consideration for safety concerns under the impression that they aren't just picking whatever random idea they toss that sticks to a wall in the office for fun. But if they aren't even willing to take responsibility for their own colossal failure to protect our new account IDs that they attached to EVERYTHING for the sake of the new blacklist feature then they aren't responsible enough to keep this game up.

[Zeeningg]

It shouldn't take a developer having their own personal account information getting shared around by stalkers to get the point across that said stalkers are doing it to nearly the entire active playerbase and something needs to be done about it. If they try to lean on their hands-off approach to plug-ins even with THIS then I'll repeat what I've said before. They have no business keeping this game operational with so little regard for player safety.

I've spoken in favor of their consideration for safety concerns under the impression that they aren't just picking whatever random idea they toss that sticks to a wall in the office for fun. But if they aren't even willing to take responsibility for their own colossal failure to protect our new account IDs that they attached to EVERYTHING for the sake of the new blacklist feature then they aren't responsible enough to keep this game up.

because people are being hyperbolic AF that's not what the plugin is for or what it does, though square should obviously have NOT MADE ACCOUNT ID READABLE CLIENT SIDE, that's the most OBVIOUS server-side thing i've ever seen

[LibitIncarne]

Would be funny if YoshiP's characters were found this way, I'm sure he'd act as fast as lightning.

Considering that it took until YoshiP getting /tells from RMT bots for SE to do anything about that...

[Wyssahtyn]

reminder that the director didn't think rmt was real until he got a rmt spam tell in game.

happened on stream btw, from what i remember.

also another thing that, iirc, the developers dismissed as a non-issue until it publicly happened to them on stream during i think a live letter or expansion keynote. remember how switching audio devices or w/e used to, i think, either cut out the game's sound until you restarted the client or flat out crash the game, or something like that? pepperidge farm remembers

[sindriiisgaming]

Well, Yoshi-P is going to be taking a stroll through the lion's den on the 24th of January.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...5cc5a35fa023aa

He has a special guest, too. I almost died.

Maybe we can politely get his attention, on this matter, in-game.

Or find out his Alt character names, <cough>.

The silence over this matter is deafening (from SE) and doesn't look good.

do we know server and location

[Yakiomu]

Well, Yoshi-P is going to be taking a stroll through the lion's den on the 24th of January.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...5cc5a35fa023aa

He has a special guest, too. I almost died.

Maybe we can politely get his attention, on this matter, in-game.

Or find out his Alt character names, <cough>.

The silence over this matter is deafening (from SE) and doesn't look good.

They will likely ignore you if you try to chat with them in-game, and they will likely make the chat box invisible when they are streaming.

However, it may be possible to inform the many players watching through YouTube comments about the dangers.
The streaming staff are Japanese.
Even if they can set banned words in advance and immediately hide any critical comments in Japanese that slip through, they are not good at understanding other languages.

[NaoSen]

I mean, even if Account Id is going to be kept this way (which it looks like it is) at least let us set filters for what we want to show.

Online Status:
Display to - All, friends, none

Location:
Display to - All, friends, none

That way a lot of information that would be useful to bad use becomes not so useful.

It might even make for a faster friends list in general since I am sure that thing takes forever to load since its looking up online status and location for everyone on your friends list.

[Violet]

Hello. It's me again.

First of all, I would like to thank the North American players for coming to the Japanese forum and alerting us. However, that comment was deleted by a moderator. Perhaps the information was a little too specific. However, a Japanese player who read the information left a screenshot and shared the information elsewhere.

Looking at the current forum, there are even some that have been deleted for unknown reasons. An extreme example of this is the “SHADOW BRINGERS” trailer※. This was deleted because of an inconvenient link in the comment before it, and I believe it was deleted as a conditioned reflex because there was a link in this comment as well. Perhaps the moderators are confused.

※I think it was a light joke planted to judge the forum's deletion criteria (the comment itself was legitimate), but I just wanted to give an example of a moderator falling for it. I apologize for the lack of explanation and the misunderstanding.

[Kaurhz]

Hello. It's me again.

First of all, I would like to thank the North American players for coming to the Japanese forum and alerting us. However, that comment was deleted by a moderator. Perhaps the information was a little too specific. However, a Japanese player who read the information left a screenshot and shared the information elsewhere.

Looking at the current forum, there are even some that have been deleted for unknown reasons. An extreme example of this is the “SHADOW BRINGERS” trailer. This was deleted because of an inconvenient link in the comment before it, and I believe it was deleted as a conditioned reflex because there was a link in this comment as well. Perhaps the moderators are confused.

If I am understanding your post correctly, Are JP not as in tune with what it does, as what we are over at the EN forums?

[Violet]

If I am understanding your post correctly, Are JP not as in tune with what it does, as what we are over at the EN forums?

I am not sure if this is the right answer to your question, but let me explain the situation Japanese players are in.
First, there are those who understand the dangers of the tools and those who trivialize the dangers through normality bias. The latter are those who understand only that their sub-character will be exposed and think it is not a big problem.
Many forum posters understand the danger, but some defend the management, and a sterile exchange ensues.
Simply put, basically JP is just as concerned about the dangers as EN is.
Sorry for the lack of explanation.


I have added an additional explanation to the relevant comment. I apologize for any misunderstanding caused by my lack of wording.