Can we have an in-game Chat Filter?

[Raoabolic]

RMT is a COMPLETELY player created problem

Stop buying gil and carries.
No demand, no need for supply.

But continue to blame SE for not taking into consideration how greedy, impatient, and entitled the playerbase is.

Oh yeah, we will get to it as soon as we stop getting people to buy from a cash shop. Any day now. Just wait... It's coming, you know!...

[DixieBellOCE]

RMT is a COMPLETELY player created problem

Stop buying gil and carries.
No demand, no need for supply.

But continue to blame SE for not taking into consideration how greedy, impatient, and entitled the playerbase is.

While i do agree that it is a player created problem, Square Enix are the ones doing nothing to stop it.

It is also their responsibility to remove spam from chat, which they do not do consistently.

it would be very easy to have a server side program running that mutes accounts that copypasta the same RMT links in chat for weeks on end. Hell it might even mute those annoying venue spammers from other Datacenters.

[Xeronia]

There is a filter but it's pretty weak. Like using @ instead of A or ° instead of . Beats it. I don't think SE will ever do anything more about it, also third party filters are against ToS so don't ask, don't tell.

And third party addons aren't a realistic solution due to the console player base not having access to them. A better filter or even the dream of one you could add your own filters into would be ideal.

[DPZ2]

well, for the rmt spam anyway since they're against TOS regardless, but SE could just, y'know, address the issue of the constant player spam while they're at it via actually moderating against it as well.

So, hire someone to sit on every world in every area where RMT spam is occurring and moderate it. You volunteering to pay the salaries?

Easy solution to the immediate problem. Right-click on name of spammer in chat window. Select "Report RMT". Click, click. Done.

[Canadane]

RMT is a COMPLETELY player created problem

Stop buying gil and carries.
No demand, no need for supply.

But continue to blame SE for not taking into consideration how greedy, impatient, and entitled the playerbase is.

While you are correct, it's on SE to start handing out bans to buyers so there's no tolerance for dirty money.
As it is, it appears that buyers are very lightly punished, if at all, based on the ban reports they put out.

[Saraide]

I'm very much in favor of customizable chatfilters, both blacklist and whitelist ideally. This would be neat even outside of RMT spam. For example there is nothing wrong with FC recruitment messages, I just dont want to see them.