After a controversial coding slip-up fed stalkers info on their victim's alts, FF14 wipes the slate clean to try and fix its mistakes

Koana, a main character in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail, stares thoughtfully at a book in his hands.

Final Fantasy 14's patch 7.2 is coming soon—which means preliminary patch notes. While these aren't usually of much interest, with much of the meat contained in the game's live letters, one particular note leapt out at me: FF14's making changes to its blacklist.

I wrote a full story on this back in January, but here's the cliffnotes: In the game's latest expansion, Dawntrail, FF14 made some overall solid changes to its otherwise ineffective blacklisting system. One major benefit was the ability to vanish anyone you've blocked out of your game world entirely—whereas previously, if you were being stalked, you were powerless to do so.