During today's live letter, Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida addressed the recent controversy surrounding the PlayerScope "stalking" plugin and confirmed the issue would be addressed in Patch 7.2.
As you'd expect from one of the biggest online games of all time, Final Fantasy 14 is no stranger to big controversies and exploits, but one of its latest issues has gotten so bad that Square Enix has even had to step in. I am, of course, talking about the PlayerScope plugin, which used blacklist changes brought by Dawntrail to essentially allow specific player data to be freely accessed.
Maybe a break from FFXIV will help me recharge my Warrior of Light battery.
How it works is a little bit complicated (and more eloquently put by the news team's Final Fantasy 14 star, Joshua Robertson), but PlayerScope uses a unique account ID system to collect player info and put it on a server that can be accessed with the plugin. It's basically data collection, and Yoshi-P even had to release a statement about it that suggested legal action from Square Enix.
While Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida has already said his piece on PlayerScope through a post on The...
