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Harvey Randall

Yoshi-P says FF14 team is 'discussing' options to fight mod that can be used for stalking, like 'legal action' and, uh, asking them to stop

Alisaie, a headstrong ally in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail, looks skeptically while standing in the middle of a beautiful blue forest.

Final Fantasy 14's community has been frayed at the edges recently, as widespread awareness of a modding tool that allows stalkers—an issue FF14 has had for a while—to have access to every alternate character on their target's account.

Dawntrail received a more powerful blacklisting system to help fight stalking behaviour, but the mod actually takes advantage of those changes. As revealed earlier in the month, the new blacklisting system swaps out a character ID (invisibly sent to clients) for an account-wide ID which—from what I've seen—isn't even particularly hard for a person to snag, because it's all client-side.

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