Privacy Features
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Hello everyone,
it's been more than one and a half year since my last post regarding the lack of privacy features in Path of Exile. Sadly nothing has happened in that regard so I want to bring my last post back up. I suggest something like the following: Invisible mode (appear offline to people in your friends list and/or everyone), needs to be available upon logging in before entering the game. On the friends panel there could be a drop down allowing to choose three options: - Invisible to everyone /whois will show you offline. You also won't be able to receive any messages and will appear offline on the trade site. You are offline for all intents and purposes. - Invisible to Friends with checkbox active The Friends List will have a new checkbox for each of your friends. Upon activating this mode you will appear offline to friends with said checkbox ticked. You are offline for all intents and purposes to those friends only. - Online Appear visible and online without restrictions. Remove yourself from strangers' Friends lists When deleting people from my Friends List I should be deleted from theirs as well. This not being already the case is the most surprising to me. Adding people to your Friends List requires confirmation Today someone can add me to their friends list without me knowing or rather explicitly allowing it. I will get a notification that someone wants to add me and I can refuse but that will only prevent them from being added to my Friends List, I'll still be on theirs. It should not be possible for anyone to add someone without explicit permission. Block /whois I should be able to remove myself from being checked on with the /whois command. By default this can be off but when activated it would show "this player does not allow to be found with /whois" or something. Thank you. Last edited by Starbuckz42#3193 on Feb 18, 2026, 4:53:38 AM Last bumped on Feb 18, 2026, 4:49:12 AM
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Yeah the friends list in this game has always been the weirdest,jank,ancient thing I've ever seen in any game. It really needs to be updated to be more like a normal Social system like any other game would have. Its also weird that you can't even see your ignore list anywhere in the game, there's only a primitive chat command to clear the whole thing at once, which really doesn't help if you've just filled it up lmao Parts of this game just feel like they're still stuck in 2012 or something. Like everything that you can do with a chat command should be doable by pressing buttons on the in-game UI, I'm not a GM playtesting a game, I am a player, I shouldn't ever have to type out commands to do things. Who knows, maybe we'll finally have 2 dev teams for both games and we can start getting some more improvements to PoE. Lifelong NEET, loud and proud about it. Last edited by Toforto#2372 on Feb 17, 2026, 12:29:19 PM
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" Are you aware of the existing Do Not Disturb functionality? Do you explicitly want to add an "Invisible" option on top of the existing Do Not Disturb and AFK features, or would potentially amending an existing one be acceptable to you? I'm going to be candid: we're talking about the chatbox in a video game. It is not at all clear to me that we need 20 different ways of setting an "I won't respond to messages" mode in the game. That sounds like a disaster - both for maintenance on GGG's end, and in terms of attempting to explain them all to new players. I really think you should just use /dnd in the chatbox. " Yeah... you're rapidly overengineering things again. I'll be blunt - this sounds like an out-of-game problem that's best resolved with an out-of-game solution. Either you're friends with someone or you aren't - and if it's the former, it should be possible to have a mature and respectful conversation about boundaries and the like. I don't think this is something that requires the intervention of professional Game Designers. " There's a recurring theme in this thread of you wanting to offload any kind of responsibility for your interpersonal relationships and interactions to a video game. I don't agree that things in my own UI should "just happen" based on the actions of others. If you don't want to be messaged by someone again, you can always /ignore them. " I am going to go out on a limb and say that - if you are being subject to repeat harassment, regardless of whether it is being perpetrated by a single account or several - 1) you do not deserve this, and, 2) you can contact Support directly and have them intervene. Otherwise - you are demanding quite a radical think of the game's social features to accommodate your own preferences and use cases, seemingly while disregarding the prospect of everyone else's. It does seem to me like either 1) there's some kind of extenuating circumstances - which should be addressed individually and directly - or, 2) you are playing an online game, you don't really want to be playing an online game, and so you are attempting to have the game redesigned to suit you personally. In which case... I don't know, maybe try Grim Dawn. The thread can basically be boiled down to "I want to use Do Not Disturb without using Do Not Disturb", and "I want to stop someone else from messaging me, but without using the existing ignore functionality". I don't think your suggestions particularly fit GGG's vision for PoE, or represent particularly compelling things for them to prioritise above other work. Having spent thousands of euros on Path of Exile over the years, I will not be further supporting it financially until and unless GGG resumes offering Technical Support.
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" I'll be blunt - you don't understand the issue. Many other games and platforms have the features I request. PoE doesn't have any, at all. It's simply not up to modern standards in terms of privacy and security. It's not about not wanting to reply or being disturbed. It's not about telling people I don't want to interact with them. All I'm asking is GGG to go with the times and implement basic privacy features that can be found in many places already (for many years, decades even). My suggestions aren't absolute, just things to think about. However, an invisible mode and being in control of your presence on other people's friends lists are absolutely non-negotiable. People can just add you to their lists without you knowing or being able to reject, that's asinine. Last edited by Starbuckz42#3193 on Feb 18, 2026, 4:51:01 AM
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