Re: Regarding the Use of Third-Party Programs and Player Safety

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Don't see why it matters if it has or hasn't.

There is no justification in a tool that collects account IDs and maps characters and alts to a single ID in an unsolicited manner.

Besides most people just aren't going to immediately know if their stalking or harassment is as a result of this third-party tool or not. People do not have crystal balls, they aren't practicing wizardry. They are going to be concerned about harassment long before, and the fact remains this tool is a very big enabler of this (when there is no other justification for it to exist). Further to this most people are just not going to announce their woes on the internet. Some might, but it's hardly a norm circumstance.

To make matter worse, such cases are hardly spoken or tend to be brushed away/downplayed as "just drama lol".

People probably could learn a thing or two by reading the "Dingo case". It's something that happened within FFXIV sometime in the past, and should tell them how low people would go in order to get to somebody when they REALLY want to in general, and just how easily the perpetrator can get away unscathed.

Worse? With this DT BL system, it’s going to be even easier to pick on a target now.