Speech Bubbles - Thoughts?

[Belial]

Much. I also think that suggesting it's a waste of resources is subjective considering we don't know the setup of the FFXIV dev team and how much effort it would take, as well as it coming down to personal opinion as to how important they are. I'd also argue that new players coming from elsewhere might be somewhat turned off by log-only (The reason I made this thread was that I got a couple of friends to join up, and neither of them liked that in particular) so I would argue that potentially it's not a waste of resources at all if it makes the experience more user-friendly.

I could argue that introducing the remaining genders is a waste of resources from my point of view, that doesn't make it correct.

EDIT: To add, whether or not its redundant would also remain to be seen, as I suggested it would be useful to grab the attention of players (in the same vein as the quest "!"'s which have been added to all mission NPCs too, something that my friends found to be pretty useful in working out where they needed to go.)

Regardless of knowing the setup of the team it can still be deemed a waste of resources, specifically at this point in the game's life. It simply isn't a game breaker/maker.

And it being redundant does not "remain to be seen." Displaying the same information in several spots on a screen at any given time is redundant (see superfluous, excessive, etc.) The quest exclamation points are completely different, if you can't bring yourself to move your eyes several millimetres to a different spot on the screen, well... that's just unfortunate for you.

[Venat]

Even if there was bubbles they would overlap even if your around too many people.

[Eekiki]

FF9 had speech bubbles, too.

[Majidah]

Regardless of knowing the setup of the team it can still be deemed a waste of resources, specifically at this point in the game's life. It simply isn't a game breaker/maker.

Same could be said about resizing mobs, adding 3D onscreen text for damage display, adding a pop up text for when a light and full party are formed. Still they implemented it and it looks great.

Yoshi already stated different parts of the team do different things, so I doubt that getting speech bubbles would derail the team from releasing chocobos or whatever.

And it being redundant does not "remain to be seen." Displaying the same information in several spots on a screen at any given time is redundant (see superfluous, excessive, etc.) The quest exclamation points are completely different, if you can't bring yourself to move your eyes several millimetres to a different spot on the screen, well... that's just unfortunate for you.

Pretty sure PSO also had a chatlog in case you missed something but you could just leave it closed unless you wanted to check something that was said.

Now that I think about it, FFXIV could use making the players look at the screen and not at a chatlog... this in hand with damage being displayed on screen goes pretty well together.

[Dreamer]

Even if there was bubbles they would overlap even if your around too many people.

Not so. They were used City of Heroes/Villains/Rogues, and I can't recall ever having a problem with them cluttering up the screen, even when in full parties.

[Atomsk]

I've never seen many things from FF14 in real life, did you have a point ?

to make fun of the people who use that as their point to be against a lot of things, be it jumping or teleporting. They don't seem to have problems with 6ft tall extinct birds or enormous scorpions, or any of the other wide number of things in FF14 that they will never see.

[Belial]

Same could be said about resizing mobs, adding 3D onscreen text for damage display, adding a pop up text for when a light and full party are formed. Still they implemented it and it looks great.

Yoshi already stated different parts of the team do different things, so I doubt that getting speech bubbles would derail the team from releasing chocobos or whatever.

I never said those were great uses of time either. Nor did I say I gave a shit about chocobos?

Pretty sure PSO also had a chatlog in case you missed something but you could just leave it closed unless you wanted to check something that was said.

Now that I think about it, FFXIV could use making the players look at the screen and not at a chatlog... this in hand with damage being displayed on screen goes pretty well together.[/QUOTE]

Yea, no thanks, again, screen clutter, there's a reason for UIs.

[Misha]

I'd be all for it, but only from players in game, it helps to see who said what sometime without having to take my eyes off what's going on in the world to look at the chat log.

I agree with the toggle option, and would like to see it for /say and /party chat.

Yep definitely... actually listed bubbles for chat in another thread hehe players only of course... or maybe npc's in the future that shout stuff at you as you past :P It's very FF ^^ Make it classic background blue too xD

[Moth]

I don't think it would be aesthetically pleasing. The giant exclamation points over every npc that can hand out a quest is already a freaking eyesore. I don't mind it on the main map, and the mini map, but why does it have to be there right over their heads as well! -,-

[Frisque]

Not hard, unimportant. Chat bubbles may have served a purpose prior to current MMO design but to implement a chat bubble when you have a chat window is a great example of redundancy and a waste of resources. Better?

QFT

The text is already there. To me it seems a waste of the programmers' time to implement something like this.

Just filter your chat tabs.