EQplayers.com--Invasion of Privacy, IMO! <<A MUST READFollow

Recently being away from EQ, i returned to find out EQplayers.com was a new SOE service...hmmm...never looked at it until today. WTF was my first thought, anyone can type in a char's name, and find out EXACTLY what each and every char has in their BANK inv...! That pissed me off to no end, (SOE will get a lengthy email about this from me), anyhow --- i, like everyone else, pay SOE a hefty fee monthly, throughout the year to play this online game, so why should they NOW post my char info, gear to anyone they see fit? THAT is like everything else in this society that has gone corrupt; social security #'s, phone #'s, email, account info(monthly bills), personal info,.....the list goes on!
Ask yourself this: how many times have YOU (points at you!), had to fix a problem with informational leaks in ur personal life, (as mentioned above)??? Why not just give SOE the right to hand out your Station Name and Password, so people can "freely" browse your character, in depth, why not,huh? they're practically doing that now! I play EQ to do what i want, when i want, how i want --- it's my money every month, and it's my account to play how i see fit. I'm not too sociable in-game like most, ppl **** me off in PoK, i have a shortened temper, who doesn't have issues? My point [b]IS: SOE should make persona; char info, a registar to know policy ONLY!!![/b]
If i wanted my char info to be publicized, i would authorize it, which to this point I HAVE NOT, nor will i, willingly. Am i being an ***, or does anyone else feel like your just gradually becoming a nameless person in exsistence, that will undoubtedly become an Informational Tech stat on the internet, with no identity, w/ except of looking yourself up occasionally, to contemplate what you used to be?If i wanted my char info to be publicized, i would authorize it, which to this point I HAVE NOT, nor will i, willingly. Am i being an ***, or does anyone else feel like your just gradually becoming a nameless person in exsistence, that will undoubtedly become an Informational Tech stat on the internet, with no identity, w/ except of looking yourself up occasionally, to contemplate what you used to be?
I will be spamming SOE / EQ with a similar email to have my char info REMOVED form EQplayers...until i feel I'M rdy to release it ( by registaring my char's)...please feel free to do the same, if your frame of mind, is the same as mine...!?

>>> Is there nothing that one can still hold sacred, anymore --- DAMN! <<<

If there IS anyone else out there that agrees with me on this topic, please post a reply, +pos / or -neg....i don't care really, i just wanna let ppl know about this, if they didn't already...

**note** i know -- everyone has their own opinion, but i will stand by this one, no matter what!

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Edited, Sun Dec 25 19:56:26 2005 by Mordwar

WHY not? your char in-game has your account # (credit card, email, station name, and password,: all personal info CAN be accessed if someone happened to find out what the station name and password were....i actually HAD identity theft FROM EQ years ago when i played b4, that was REAL, my CC had been charged $3000.00+, tell me THAT isn't invasion of privacy????
Suppose someone looks up an item they like, MUST HAVE ingame, tell me there wouldn't be a way for someone to access your "personal info" to gain access to ur EQ account, take the item, (and more), and then charge mass internet items (which is a near impossible way to track the guilty party), on YOUR credit card? but u'd be ok with that?....since EQplayers doesn't have any RL personal info on it? Hackers HAVE the determination, and means to access whatever they want, so why give'm a starting place?

Edited, Sun Dec 25 20:04:37 2005 by Mordwar

I didn't see anything that linked characters to accounts; not sure your thought process on that.

You do know that SOE owns your characters, their items, money, etc.?

Oh,ok, i'm sorry i see your way of thinking now... =))
i'll just fake the rest of MY life, to satisfy the need to keep MY identity. Might as well chnge my RL name, and use an alias too, cancel all my cards, and redo all my utilites, while i'm at it.....just have to keep a mental paper-trail, so i can keep up with all myselves -- so i can remain ANON in RL, and ingame. Like i said, everyone has their own opinion, that is fine, i welcome them; but i made this post, i seriously doubt that any resistance to my opinion, will change my mind.
There are some nice, good features to the site, i just have a prob with my char being at the disposal to anyone in the world, that might know me in game, or on the server...just randomly looking at the gear and stats that i have. I keep to myself in RL, and ingame, so why can't i keep to myself, what's so bad about wanting to private? But now, thanks to SOE, i can't! think ya lost my point, totally...but i see urs, just not gonna see it your way, is all, BTW --- TY for taking the time to respond, THAT was my whole point. :)

Ok, which one of you let your kids find your account information...hurry take it away from this ding dong.

You can change the handle that displays when you post or login to a chat channel. I don't remember how to do it, but I know you can, lol.

You know, the OP's opinion may not be popular, but that doesn't mean he is wrong. Throw all the lawyer crap you want at it, but he developed his character, and if he doesn't want the info public then Sony should not reveal it. The default should have been to hide everything except from your guild, but they did the exact opposite. Why? Because EQPlayers makes no sense unless they have lots of character info to display. They are counting on people being too lazy, too stupid, or too indifferent to go in and change the settings.

er, same here as well. =)

to the OP, thanks for bolstering my logic to buy lots of stock in ALCOA, parent co of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil.

Nobody is argueing that fact. What the rest of us find funny is how the OP has compared the posting of his characters inventory to the posting of his personal information and how it is making him a nameless statistic on the web.

Or how he thinks that because someone sees that his toon is DA UBAHZZ that they are going to hack his account, collect his information and charge millions of dollars to his CC



IMO I think it is more of a matter that the OP had/has something that he shouldn't and is afraid that he might get caught. Thats just a guess though.

glad to see there IS another intelligent being out there, besides me, LOL; guess Kelti and i are more private than the rest of you....

Edited, Mon Dec 26 09:24:59 2005 by Mordwar

Jchapin: when i read your first reply post, to mine, only one word comes to mind-----Two-faced, you grill me about being a dumbass for wanting to keep SOE's account private, when they own the rights to it; then WTF did YOU turn ur settings off for your trader???? guess that's different, cause it's ur trader, that you don't want anyone to see,huh?
*remember, it's not ur stuff, it's SOE's trader and items, so why do u care if anyone can look at ur trader?* maybe because there are some privacy issues; ppl know what to go farm, and where? be easy to look trader items up and figure out where the loot comes from, and decrease the profit of a certain item, because everyone and their brother will oversaturate the bazaar, driving the price down? sounds like you might be "paranoid" LMAO
take a step back and /scratch your head, because you just partially agreed with me :P * was gonna also be nice* but who's the ******* idiot now? you partially agreed with what i said, and don't even comprehend it, maybe i should browse your gear, so i can give ya pointers how to bump ur INT up a lil, till then ....don't knock anything you have no clue about, that's called ignorance...maybe in your case, could be a 'lil stupidity mixed in there....

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and this means?



Oh and why does someone who disagrees with your view yet sets his toons too not display their gear make them two-faced? You are talking about EQplayers.com as a whole. This whole argument could be pointless if you were to login to it and do the same. Just restrict all acces to everyone.

Crap just realised, I have an IP address too.... and I just logged into alla! Guess I better logoff and clear my cache/cookies/ and format my HD, cause some may find away to hack into alla, find my IP and have access to all my information on it.

Most beggars are smart enough not to ask for items on your toon, you aren't going to give your weapon or your helm away. But that stuff sitting in the bank they might figure they can beg from you. Or they might start bugging you to gather the items and produce something with your tradeskills. I have heard of this happening often enough without EQ Players. On the SOE forums people have claimed beggars have targeted them.

Beggars are greedy and annoying enough now, without giving them a "quest" list of the spare/sellable items from people's banks.

And no I am not so paranoid that I feel people are searching my real life closets, and no I don't have any real uber stuff, so I would get less begging than the folks with more valuble loot. And most of my tradeskills are not high enough to earn the begging there.


Thanks, Fallonn, will try to find it, and if anyone already knows, please share and save me time.

You can't prove a negative. The burden is on you to prove someone CAN use the EQPlayers interface to steal my credit card number, Combine scimitar and then buy a gajillion plat from Ya[i][/i]ntis.