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 !"
I was wondering how you felt about this, considering everything that was said before (and admittedly, I was rude about it... sorry!)

For me, this was unfortunately completely within expectations. It took them a second addressing after "kindly stop pls" didn't work and considering the incredibly bad explanations we've had in the past, such as while they were explaining why the hiding players at quest NPCs feature was so limited, I just don't think anyone there really cares. It's often all a bunch of lip service that doesn't really make sense if you have any background in computing.

Just based on the fact that it wasn't a priority for them to fix it ASAP, it was always clear that this wasn't really a concern for them. And it sucks, really. I hate that I'm talking like this about a game that I used to love dearly.

I definitely agree with that last statement, this game is... genuinely inviting to weirdos, and the community is overall very accommodating for it as well.