Final Fantasy 14 got a selection of new blacklist features in Dawntrail aimed at helping players deal with in-game stalkers, but the backend details of those features led to the creation of some exploitative mods that some community members have feared might make the problem even worse.
Now, Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida says the devs are working on fixes in time for the upcoming patch 7.2.
You can read our previous coverage on the exploit for more details on how it works, but in short, the new blacklist means that when you block a character, you now block all characters tied to an account.
That function is facilitated by the fact that servers now broadcast an account ID for all the characters you come into contact with.
This isn't visible to players, but if the right mods were created, you could collect account ID information and start building a list of every character tied to a given player's account.