Final Fantasy XIV fans began freaking out earlier this month after the discovery of a mod tool that could be abused to track down players and stalk them in-game, no matter where they were in the popular MMORPG.

Square Enix finds itself dealing with a controversial mod for Final Fantasy XIV, which is causing worry among its player base.

While the use of third-party tools is prohibited in Final Fantasy 14, the likes of Advanced Combat Tracker is regularly used by the game's raiding community and cross-referenced using websites like FFlogs. Yoshida's legal threat, however, is a significant step up in rhetoric.

Final Fantasy XIV players discovered that certain plugins, like PlayerScope, allow others to see each player's account ID on alt characters, which is a nightmare scenario for harassmen t and stalking. The current iteration of the Blacklist feature assigns a unique ID to each account rather than individual character IDs as before.

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 ac

Square Enix is aware of the PlayerScope plugin for Final Fantasy 14, and is considering legal action after players raised concerns.