We need speech bubbles!

Please include this! it is such a basic feature that I'm shocked it was left out, whats even weirder is NPCs get them but not players!

Also, if you add them for players, please PLEASE make them on by default. almost no one will turn them on if it's just added without making them defaulty on.

95% of the time I ever talk in /s no one ever responds and just keeps moving on. about 80% of the time I will get a /tell later saying they just noticed I said something because they were looking at the screen and not the chat box.

No thanks, way too much clutter. Every game I've seen with speech bubbles has had a really cheap and lazy feel. Reminds me of PSU or Runescape.

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Originally Posted by Tule

No thanks, way too much clutter. Every game I've seen with speech bubbles has had a really cheap and lazy feel. Reminds me of PSU or Runescape.

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Every mmo with? you mean every mmo. They are always optional a well so there is 0 reason to not include them.

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Originally Posted by Bernkastel

Please include this! it is such a basic feature that I'm shocked it was left out, whats even weirder is NPCs get them but not players!

Also, if you add them for players, please PLEASE make them on by default. almost no one will turn them on if it's just added without making them defaulty on.

95% of the time I ever talk in /s no one ever responds and just keeps moving on. about 80% of the time I will get a /tell later saying they just noticed I said something because they were looking at the screen and not the chat box.

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Yes, yes, yes.

Totally agree.

I was very disappointed to discover no chat bubbles.

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No thanks, way too much clutter. Every game I've seen with speech bubbles has had a really cheap and lazy feel. Reminds me of PSU or Runescape.

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I'm sorry OP but I'd have to agree with this one. Speech bubbles do seem to give it a low-end feeling. XI never had speech bubbles and was perfect the way it was. If people aren't noticing your /says tell them in /tell if you really want them to get what you're trying to communicate. People just have to get accustomed to paying attention to different chat types/windows.

Agreed, speech bubbles would be awesome. As a roleplayer, it helps easily see who's speaking on a level that is similar to real life. You see the person, you notice what they are communicating to you. We have such beautiful visuals to work with, why have yourself searching the busy little text box on the bottom of your screen? It creates a disconnect with the person's visual avatar and their text where a chat bubble near the PC helps make communication more intuitive.

Why not just have an option to have them on or off?
Some want them and some don't, personally I'd like them

No chat bubbles is a major nerf to roleplayers. Having to look at a chatbox instead of our characters as we interact is very disengaging from the very interaction our characters are having. <insert frownie moogle face>

I agree and support speech bubbles.

I actually tested how many players replied to my random conversations in /SAY while standing next to people, I rarely received a reply because there's no "Hey look a white bubble thing that wasn't there before.. and wait it says something"

Really to all players who dislike speech bubbles due to "Too much clutter or the view that it degrades the game", A simple fix will be an On / Off function in the options. Don't want to see it?, turn it off.

Speech bubbles that are able to be turned off an on would be fantastic. Please Square enix, the NPC's have it, why not us?

I agree with the need for speech bubbles, I was a veteran WoW player since release and I remember when that game didn't have speech bubbles. Chat improved leaps and bounds when speech bubbles were introduced. But I also have to note with the sentiment that cheap tacked on speech bubbles is a bad idea. Given the quality of the game, I think high quality speech bubbles with a final fantasy feel would be ideal.

Speech bubbles with filter options would be great and they appear in the game already from time to time when you get close to an npc.

there is a need for speech bubbles you know i was in ulda city and was talking to someone, i keep scrolling up and down just to see the message of the one i am talking to because of the gil spam from bots makes it harder to read the chat window. if there was a chat bubble this will solve it or atleast ban the gil spammers quickly :mad:

hello I agree I made a forum about it also I hope they add them soon

I'll throw my two cents in here. I believe chat bubbles would be an excellent additional feature but I would like to see it be an optional feature that can be turned off when you don't want it.

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Originally Posted by Kyoreore

I'm sorry OP but I'd have to agree with this one. Speech bubbles do seem to give it a low-end feeling. XI never had speech bubbles and was perfect the way it was. If people aren't noticing your /says tell them in /tell if you really want them to get what you're trying to communicate. People just have to get accustomed to paying attention to different chat types/windows.

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FF XI made you look on that chat box for about everything you did. Exp, dmg, strength of enemies, etc, etc.
This game doesn't.

What's the harm in adding an optional feature?

I kinda liked bubbles from PSU lol or was that PSO? Eh whatever.

Ohh yes.

That there are no Chat Bubble available must the only reason this game doesn't get 10/10 from me ;)

Square enix, I don't know if you noticed but you have a great roleplaying community with this game, and you made so much efforts to have good emotes, why keep chat bubbles away ? I hope its not to be afraid that people mught find it disturbing, because it appears to me that this is no heavy job at all to make them optional. (on by default would be great)

My opinion is it should be available for the /say, /tell, /shout and /linksehll channels.

Maybe make it obvious early in game that you can turn them off with a help window.

PLEASE ! CHAT BUBBLES ARE A MUST FOR THE ROLEPLAYERS, REALLY !

Chat bubbles lets us stare at your wonderful character graphics at the same time.
Chat box lacks cleavage.
Thanks.