nearly 2 years later...

[Kaurie]

It's been 11 years, and WoW still has gold sellers.

It's just one of those things you can't avoid in an MMO, sadly.

Doesn't WoW have a built-in chat filter as well?

[Welsper59]

It's never so much that they don't care, but rather they don't prioritize countermeasures for RMT. I've said it many times, and I'll be saying it for a very long time to come, but SE is grade A **** when it comes to devs providing proper/efficient QoL changes to their games and proper customer service being available to consumers. Maybe it's their policies in-place for their employees or maybe it's the employees themselves... actually the latter (at least) is absolutely the case for many past instances.

As people are not quitting over the matter, it's always going to be low on the priority list. That is, assuming RMT do not attempt greater annoyances to advertise, like the FR fiasco we suffered. Even with that, it still took the devs an absolutely ridiculous amount of time to come up with the elementary fix of taking the obvious path of removing the FR function from free accounts. Filtering chat problems, unless their system is intentionally made to make their lives hell, is probably the simplest of things to fix... as in it'd probably take less than a cumulative of 1 hour to add and test internally. They likely just need to get the OK from bossman, which probably won't happen in the foreseeable future. He probably feels that it's meaningless, since RMT will always be there. It's absolutely true btw to feel that way, but to not even bother giving us the tools to minimize the annoyance is a bad philosophy.

Doesn't WoW have a built-in chat filter as well?

Yup, they (I believe) streamlined the right-click report system for MMORPGs. Unlike here, the blist capacity isn't a problem, so using it would also block said character, along with all chat history from him/her/it. Their internal filters seem to be doing the job, although RMT did have to think of (admittedly) clever ways to bypass it. Creating corpses on the ground to spell out the website is a rather interesting example.

[Moonleg]

Doesn't WoW have a built-in chat filter as well?

Not unless they got it with WoD. At least until I stopped playing at the end of Mists the only real way of filtering chat was to download the BadBoy addon, which would mask and report all recognized spam. Worked like a charm.

So, SE, about those addon APIs ...