Place filtering power in the hands of the players!

[Cold_Raven]

For example, I could place in my filter the words/phrases: gold, .com, delivery.
I could then choose the options: tells, shouts.

This is a fantastic idea. All for it!

Problem is: g0ld, .co m, de livery, just bypassed your filters.

That's the beauty of the system... if something slips through, you can control it yourself and update it immediately.
No need to add things to your blacklist.
No need to wait for a patch or action from SE.

Even better... the Gil sellers have no idea what your personal filter settings are.

Right now, every Gil seller knows exactly what your filter settings are... because they're the same for everyone. They can test and verify and update their own systems immediately by checking against their own characters.
With this system... can't do that. Gil sellers would be "working in the dark."

Sounds to me like a great system to put in.
We all know that no other static system has ever stopped them. This is a dynamic system, controlled immediately by the user themselves.

Would it be perfect? Likely not. But come up with a perfect Gil-seller blocking system and Blizzard and SE will make you a rich man.
It does, however, contain many advantages to the user, and many disadvantages to the Gil seller.

All for it!!

[kyuven]

That's the beauty of the system... if something slips through, you can control it yourself and update it immediately.
No need to add things to your blacklist.
No need to wait for a patch or action from SE.

But there IS a need to update your program every time they figure out a combination to break through. And they will.
This is why it's gold *spam*. If there's a way to break through these systems, even if logic would dictate they're not going to get your business even if they gave free chocolate every time they advertise, they would find a way.

You can come up with fancy shmancy ways to block RMT tells all you want, consume dozens upon dozens of man hours to implement code that might not even work (meaning even after all that work, your customers still complain and the problem is still there) but in the end the core problem is still there.


What we really need is a zero tolerance policy on gold buyers. The sellers will just hijack new accounts or use stolen credit cards so long as they have a market. Nix the buyers, and they have no reason to be here.
Moreover we need better education about why exactly you should never even go to these websites, to avoid more compromised accounts.

They need to copy paste the filters from FFXI those worked fine once they put them in.

XI uses a very different chat system from XIV, so it's waaaaay more complicated than a simple copy-paste job.