Text Bubbles for our abilities

Like we can macro/chant all kinds of things into the chat

I wanna have text bubbles we can shout out with our abilities..

Some party macros are kinda annoying
Except the important ones ofc
like provoke and I can live with the rezz macro..

I have to agree with this. But in (virtual) reality, text bubbles would just and more clutter. But i totally see your side on this. Its much easier to keep your eyes on the battlefield as opposed to darting back and forth between that and the chat window. Its for that reason all my dots have a /ecoh sound effect tied to yhem.
95% of the time, healer/tank will add a sound effect into their more important macros to better allert people on what their doing.

I like this idea too! It reminded me straight away of the Orator job from one of the FF Tactics games-- when the Orator did a job skill a little speech bubble would appear and he would make a talking sound (super cute).

As for clutter-- I have all battle effects turned off except my own-- I cant stand doing EX trials and raids with all the effects turned on-- it is a major strain on the eyes.

Text bubbles like from PSO2?
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...20130509210908

Only if as a player I have a way to disable it if I find it distracting.

Cause really... I don't want to be in a party with that one Role Player that has to have a comment attached to every single one of their skills, in lengthy detailed dialogue.

I'd be one to turn the option off if this were to happen. There's already too much going on in my screen to add some random text that a random persons wants to display through a bubble. I'm more focused on the fight than on what players want to say with their abilities.

I can reason with this if it can be disabled, and you know they will obviously provide such a thing. I imagine that would be annoying in raids though, haha. I could write something up along the lines of...

"REQUIEM DOES NOT STACK, DON'T YOU DARE"

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Originally Posted by Vivi_Bushido

Only if as a player I have a way to disable it if I find it distracting.

Cause really... I don't want to be in a party with that one Role Player that has to have a comment attached to every single one of their skills, in lengthy detailed dialogue.

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Agreed. I know of times this feature would be super useful. At the same time however, I can see where it would be a hot mess in more largely populated areas.

Seems good in theory, then you start to think about all the bubbles for:

- Rez
- Stroneskin II
- Protect
- Summoning
- Benediction
- Divine Seal
- Limit Break
- Provoke
- Berserk
- Living Dead
- Mantra
- Bard songs
- Pulling in 10...

And the game would end up looking like this:

http://i35.tinypic.com/2ykao44.jpg

And have all those Kiritos' use it to "shout" out their attack names? No thanks

I would definitely like this choice (also in general), and if people are so afraid of having their screen cluttered in chat bubbles (so many phobias in this game...), make it so that we can take it off at will

But I did hear it was a data issue so who knows, they might do it only in the later future. Or never.

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Originally Posted by nexas506

I have to agree with this. But in (virtual) reality, text bubbles would just and more clutter. But i totally see your side on this. Its much easier to keep your eyes on the battlefield as opposed to darting back and forth between that and the chat window. Its for that reason all my dots have a /ecoh sound effect tied to yhem.
95% of the time, healer/tank will add a sound effect into their more important macros to better allert people on what their doing.

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Sooo...turn them off?

If majority of people will turn it off I don't really see the point in it and I would rather they not waste time on it. I personally wouldn't want this.

This is probably a waste of time because most will either complain constantly or turn it off equaling in wasted dev, besides I'm pretty sure most of us have been in a DF with a rper whos every macro is 3 lines long with ASCII moogles and Berserk macro complete with a countdown.
It seems like macros already serve this purpose and chat bubbles will just make it more annoying.

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Originally Posted by Voltyblast

I would definitely like this choice (also in general), and if people are so afraid of having their screen cluttered in chat bubbles (so many phobias in this game...), make it so that we can take it off at will

But I did hear it was a data issue so who knows, they might do it only in the later future. Or never.

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It's not so much a phobia, as much as it is people knowing what will happen with it because of what already happens with the chat box macros. Some people feel a need to macro every. single. skill with sound effects, text crap, emotes, etc. it gets hella spammy as it is, and this would only make things worse overall

I think its a good idea but only shown to the player themselves and not towards the party, so basically part of their own HUD. And it should be used to tell the player that cooldowns are ready.

It would be a quick and easy way to know when cooldowns are now available again. It would compliment what we have now. I know you can do this with placing a hotbar in the middle of your screen with abilities on, but a text bubble would mean it wont be there 24/7.

It should be customisable so you can select which cooldowns per job you want popping up.

the macro "insert favorite nonsensical anime quote" spell or (gigantic bear penis sword fighting) picture is annoying enough in the chat log.

I'd like it if there were an option to turn a party members entire body a certain color when they've been afflicted with a status I can Esuna/leeches/ED off. That way I don't have to keep my eyes darting to the HP bars so much.

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Originally Posted by 16bitBounty

or (gigantic bear penis sword fighting) picture

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I feel like I missed something.

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Originally Posted by Ilitsa

It's not so much a phobia, as much as it is people knowing what will happen with it because of what already happens with the chat box macros. Some people feel a need to macro every. single. skill with sound effects, text crap, emotes, etc. it gets hella spammy as it is, and this would only make things worse overall

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Even to the point of disregarding an idea before even implementing "for fear of abuse"? I mean we don't have it, we can't know what would happen, but people are already saying it can be potentially "abusive" (in this case, risk of spam).

You don't know yet! Infact for all we know all of this "risk of spam" might never happen. Hence, having more like a "fear" than an actual "concern".

This is a very recurrent "mentality" in the game, so much that it just feels like phobia at this point. Don't want parser because abuse, don't want team roulette because of abuse (which is now removed, thankfully), don't want bubbles because spam abuse.

If at least there were some actual true reasoning behind "why it's a bad idea" instead of immediately disregarding it as "potential for abuse". I mean sure it can get spammy so hey, just make an option to remove. Don't have to NOT put it all together. Same for many other features really but this is what it seems to be for the most part: disregard because it can be abused.

I dunno, maybe I'm just too pessimistic at this point so, just nevermind me but I did feel like giving my two cents on a relatively harmless feature...

No thanks. There's already more than enough going on in-game where abilities are concerned and the vast majority of people would likely just turn the option to display such things off anyway. We've all met that one player who has a text macro for every ability...it gets old pretty quickly.

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Originally Posted by Crescents

I feel like I missed something.

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some macro with the words brothers in arms and they're like crossing penis'.

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Originally Posted by Remus

If majority of people will turn it off I don't really see the point in it and I would rather they not waste time on it. I personally wouldn't want this.

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Originally Posted by Crescents

This is probably a waste of time because most will either complain constantly or turn it off equaling in wasted dev, besides I'm pretty sure most of us have been in a DF with a rper whos every macro is 3 lines long with ASCII moogles and Berserk macro complete with a countdown.
It seems like macros already serve this purpose and chat bubbles will just make it more annoying.

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Pretty much this. The idea of it sounds interesting at first until it actually gets implemented into the game, only for the majority to get sick of it eventually and shut it off.

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Originally Posted by Remus

If majority of people will turn it off I don't really see the point in it and I would rather they not waste time on it. I personally wouldn't want this.

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And the proof you have that the "majority of people" would turn it off is...where?

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Originally Posted by zipzo

And the proof you have that the "majority of people" would turn it off is...where?

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I'm saying this based on past experience in other games which have chat bubbles and i have played quite a lot of MMOs and most people dislike it because it just gets in the way on the screen. There is a reason why most games don't do it anymore.

Also based on what some people have said in the thread how they wouldn't mind it but they would like to have the choice to turn it off I can make a good assumption that majority of people will share the same opinion and people have asked for this in the past and it gets buried in other threads and forgotten because people generally don't care for chat bubbles that just get in the way.

If people are going to turn it off I don't see the point in investing resources to make this possible. I am sure people don't want to see someone spamming an ability with a quote continuously appearing on their screen it gets annoying.

No thanks OP, I personally do not want it.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Greetings, everyone!

User Interface

Text bubbles cause a lot more stress compared to logs. Unfortunately, we currently have no plans to implement this feature because of the impact on the hardware.

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this was asked back in 2013. we got our answer there. it is still a no. to much resources and technical difficulties with much more clutter after.

i would rather keep the bubbles only for the NPCs.

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Originally Posted by Remus

I'm saying this based on past experience in other games which have chat bubbles and i have played quite a lot of MMOs and most people dislike it because it just gets in the way on the screen. There is a reason why most games don't do it anymore.

Also based on what some people have said in the thread how they wouldn't mind it but they would like to have the choice to turn it off I can make a good assumption that majority of people will share the same opinion and people have asked for this in the past and it gets buried in other threads and forgotten because people generally don't care for chat bubbles that just get in the way.

If people are going to turn it off I don't see the point in investing resources to make this possible. I am sure people don't want to see someone spamming an ability with a quote continuously appearing on their screen it gets annoying.

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...but that's exactly the point. If you don't like it, you turn it off.

I personally like chat bubbles and in fact I still remember being a bit confused as to why FFXIV neglected to have them when I started up so many years ago.

Plenty of games give you the option, and I'd consider ARR to be of the modern generation enough that it's capable of providing the option.

Under your logic games shouldn't have colorblind options either, because a lot of people would keep them off. To me chat bubbles provide advantages from a communication standpoint, I really believe they should be a staple.

I think the game should show /say chat text in a popup bubble. As it is now /say text just appears in your chat log with no on screen indication of the player speaking. Chat bubbles in these situations would provide some context for listeners nearby. It could even be used to help a player locate another. If someone is coming to you for a trade or a meld or some other reason, you could use "/say Right here" to generate a small popup bubble to help that player locate you. And like /say, /shout, etc you could have the option to enable or disable chat bubbles at will.

People are far to dismissive of this idea. They fear it will be abused and clutter the screen. But how often do you see /say or even /shout comments overflow the log? Occasionally in populated areas you might see this. There's no reason chat bubbles would be used any more. If you don't like them, turn it off.