Text balloons in /say chat

We suggested this once upon a time in the beta forums I recall, the reply was along the lines of UI memory limitations due to PS3, albeit they used to use that for many requests as an answer.

From Misteq or however you say her names recent interview, seems they are continuing the whole "We are limited" asnwers, along with "we have only so many people".

Honestly these days I wouldn't mind a slower patch cycle for better content/QoL which is different to previous expansions structure.

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Originally Posted by CazzT

Quests that require me to use /say always make me feel weird. I feel like people are going to look at me like I'm some crazy freak. lol

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/sundance

I can't possibly imagine how anyone would find it weird...

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Originally Posted by Inuk9

I think some people thought that but I really wish we had balloons popping out of our characters head when we talk in /say chat. That would help to see if a person next to you is saying something.

Have Yoshida said something about that in the past?

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For those of us not into rp this would be horrible. It's bad enough with /sh spam and some ppls awful 5 chapter macro messages. The last thing we need to do is offer and incentive to use /s more often. Anyone who is talking in /s or emote spams gets automatically blisted. If you like using them, great, but my log isn't going to be filled with your random conversation because you feel the need to use /s instead of /t for whatever reason and if I have to blist you to prevent it, so be it. And I am not the only one who feels this way. I know plenty of ppl whose blist is full of open talkers and emote spammers.

If they ever would implement this, they either need to uncap our blist limit or restrict it to rp servers.

Drowns in the sea of chat bubbles whenever I have to go to the quicksand.

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Originally Posted by Halivel

I... am not sure if it's actually a good idea? I just imagined Eureka, where people use /say chat a lot, and the screen almost completely covered with balloons. And more than that they will just change every second because of "one word per message" thing.

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I've been in Eureka a lot and 90% of the people use shout chat.

That being said, bubbles could be disabled in instances aside from your party members maybe?

Bubbles are honestly nice, its easy to miss new text in the window, especially if someone is crafting/spamming emotes/etc. The bubble would still be on your screen to read.

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Originally Posted by Kirajah

I've been in Eureka a lot and 90% of the people use shout chat.

That being said, bubbles could be disabled in instances aside from your party members maybe?

Bubbles are honestly nice, its easy to miss new text in the window, especially if someone is crafting/spamming emotes/etc. The bubble would still be on your screen to read.

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You could also filter it with options like "friends only or party only".

Simple as many other features: make it an option in the chat config menu: "Show player chat bubbles."

I really wanted this for too long, because of dungeons and raids.

Let me tell you, sometimes (esp. as a healer) I have to keep my eyes glued to the central part of the screen, where I put the party frames, resources, etc. Sometimes a player types something important in /p and I miss it because of that. If I could have chat bubbles appearing, I could've seen it because it would actually be in my field of view.

So, please... Chat bubbles, but make it optional. And while you're there, also an option to stop text auto scrolling when you're looking back old messages.

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Originally Posted by Inuk9

You could also filter it with options like "friends only or party only".

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This right here. You have multiple tabs, and I highly doubt the mass majority use Battle when just talking on the streets. I have mine filtered to Say/LS/Retainer/Craft+Free Company. No mess, shiny green notifications. There's also the option for the additional tab to detach. Make that for talking with friends chat and it's essentially a perma bubble. The tools are already there.