Official chat bubble support- Will it become a thing eventually? It helps me so much

Chat bubbles make such a difference for me when it comes to socializing with other players I'm dyslexic among other things and the big wall of text with no indication of which character it's coming from gives me a headache and just overwhelms me.
I can never socialize in the cities because of it, but chat bubbles help so much

Is there any indication of official chat bubble support in the future? Like other MMO's with the option to disable, of course. It makes such a difference for me and I'm sure it would for others too

If it's optional, I'm never against it. However, I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) they actually did answer this and said they weren't ever planning to add any.

If they decided to support chat bubbles ( And I'm not against it but rather prefer to have on/off options ) then I'd like them to make the chat bubbles better. What we currently have is... aghh... pretty bad.

Not sure if chat bubbles will be added into the game, but I'd be in support of a fearture like this being implemented. As long as there's an option to turn it on/off.

I strongly support chat bubbles and text to speech chat reading, like New World has. Literally the only thing I liked about New World btw. But yes, like most things, definitely need an option to turn them off and on.

I hope they add it but as others said above with it being an optional option.
They could do with more accessibility options.

I have played more MMORPGs that do not have chat bubbles than those who do. Some of the games suffered really badly from displaying the chat bubbles in busy areas and (no surprise) many abused the chat bubbles to make spam even more obvious.

Sure if they were optional and did not divert dev attention from other work but honestly I'd not hold out any hope - I'm sure spaghetti code will be to blame.

Are there unofficial chat bubbles?

There are ways to have it unofficially if you want it if they never offer it officially.

As long as it's optional, then I'd be all for it. Bring on the bubble chat! o7

Thanks, guys :) I'm glad people are happy with the idea

PLEASE! I saw a streamer use some sort of plug-in to make people's messages appear over their heads and it just looked SO COOL!

I hope they go back on what they said and give us this as an option.

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Originally Posted by Bearded

I have played more MMORPGs that do not have chat bubbles than those who do. Some of the games suffered really badly from displaying the chat bubbles in busy areas and (no surprise) many abused the chat bubbles to make spam even more obvious.

Sure if they were optional and did not divert dev attention from other work but honestly I'd not hold out any hope - I'm sure spaghetti code will be to blame.

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Some of the best chat bubble option I have seen were "Friends/Guild only". This meant that even in a busy city, where the chat log was flooding anyway, I could ALWAYS see the important texts.

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Originally Posted by LisSquid

Some of the best chat bubble option I have seen were "Friends/Guild only". This meant that even in a busy city, where the chat log was flooding anyway, I could ALWAYS see the important texts.

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I feel it'd be great for instances too as players could call out warnings or such and you'd see it faster than having to look at the chat box

When I first joined I had severe tunnel vision so majoritively I’d ignore the chat box. I’d never see when anyone messaged me in FC, I’d miss messages from party members in dungeons, it feels sooo messy at first.

In other MMO’s I think chat bubbles worked perfectly. Most notably, Gaia online was a great game and the chat bubbles worked in a way where if the place was busy, the chat bubbles wouldn’t overlap but would move to the side of other peoples bubbles.

Most people on XIV barely speak in ‘say’ anyway so what’s all this ‘in a busy area’ situation? People mainly talk in party or whisper so it won’t be that disasterous.