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A Final Fantasy 14 mod called PlayerScope will possibly be the target of legal action from Square Enix. In a new statement, the MMORPG's director Naoki Yoshida, better known as 'Yoshi-P,' warns players about third-party tools that can be used to obtain their player data. It follows growing concern in the FF14 community about the increasing use of PlayerScope, which can collect a large amount of information connected to a player's account including the names of all their characters, statistics about their playtime, and even data on which areas of the game they have visited.

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Square Enix has something of a "don't ask, don't tell" policy for the Final Fantasy 14 community in regards to mods. The use of third-party plugins is outlawed and against the MMO's terms of service, but modders still continue to create them for FF14 and their use is fairly well known. Now PlayerScope, a troubling new mod that was made public recently, is causing panic among the community and is being dubbed "a stalker's wet dream."

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