#Last Fantasy XIV’s controversial “stalker plugin” is taken offline after cease-and-desist menace as followers rejoice – Destructoid

Third-party plugins may or won’t assist you to play Last Fantasy XIV (ignoring what Sq. Enix feels on the subject), however a few of them, like PlayerScope, can create hassle with the neighborhood. The story of the so-called “stalker plugin” (for what it did) has now ended based mostly on a message from the developer on Discord.

This information will likely be music to the ears of all who don’t need their information to go public within the first place. It’s unclear what steps Sq. Enix may need added to the cease-and-desist letter, nevertheless it appears to have completed its job. As of writing, the plugin has been fully shut down, and any model you may nonetheless discover is definitely a clone and is also malicious.

The PlayerScope plugin has all the time been a significant fear for Last Fantasy XIV gamers

PlayerScope allowed anybody to search out somebody utilizing their Last Fantasy XIV character identify. This may reveal all of the account particulars, together with all different characters linked to the identical account. The data was additionally on PlayerScope’s servers, with no data on the way it was used or saved.

Earlier on June 19, Reddit person u/Registeredfor shared the screenshot of a Discord server the place it was introduced that PlayerScope’s growth and providers are being terminated. The backend has been taken offline, and all saved information has been completely deleted. All of the recordsdata have additionally been faraway from websites like GitFlic and GitHub. The developer has additionally introduced that this would be the finish of all types of help and growth for the challenge from their facet.

It’s been well-known at this level that Sq. Enix has by no means preferred the usage of third-party plugins, and the character of PlayerScope makes it worse. Earlier in February this 12 months, Sq. Enix introduced that they might make modifications to the blacklisting means of characters.

Whereas the much-maligned and controversial plugin has been delisted, we hope that no traces of person information have been exploited or offered to different events illegally.