Quote Originally Posted by NaoSen View Post
I was so dead set sure that this would be fixed in this patch to the point of siding with SE in another thread that it would be fixed. Since SURELY you cannot be stupid enough to half-ass it when you've taken heat on it, spoken about it on live letter etc...
Anything reversible will be reversed yet still they do it ????

The "fix" that isn't a fix didn't even need a major patch to implement they just used it to justify blacklist reset or as a patch feature point.

Why does this community have to be so freaking weird that this is even a issue to begin with, we have websites that maintain a profile of you based on your lodestone information history going back years (Past name's, free companies etc... whatever lodestone exposed), plugin's that once more use lodestone to maintain character name changes (It was in the github readme as one of the plugins that inspired it). "Want to be a weirdo ? Come play FFXIV, there's a home for you here !"
Honestly I don't think the weird-ness is actually exclusive to XIV, some other communities are just as bad... The only major difference is that Yoshida's stance on third party tools, etc., just allows for these things to go utterly unchecked in broad daylight because heaven forbid we risk upsetting players by taking a hard stance on topics that should have a hard stance. If there were a backbone and if they actually enforced their own ToS, then people wouldn't dare try this stunt, just as they wouldn't in many other games.