Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

[Lucke]

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.

HI Okiput! Thanks for keeping us in the loop. Please do not take what I'm gonna say personally, I know you're just the messenger.

This is unacceptable though. Really. How can an MMO nearly 15 years old have this, but a modern MMO can't. It's almost the year 2014 and ARR is missing some very basic stuff. I don't buy the stress excuse, I just can't.

[Tupsi]

HI Okiput! Thanks for keeping us in the loop. Please do not take what I'm gonna say personally, I know you're just the messenger.

This is unacceptable though. Really. How can an MMO nearly 15 years old have this, but a modern MMO can't. It's almost the year 2014 and ARR is missing some very basic stuff. I don't buy the stress excuse, I just can't.

It's not "unacceptable" as the game is clearly doing fine without this feature. Text bubbles aren't "basic", they're aesthetically pleasing to some but far from a basic feature that makes or breaks an MMORPG. ARR is missing stuff even XI does but that is the direction they're taking the game. The reason you can't buy it and why some feel "NPCs can so can we!" NPCs aren't players, the game rarely has to do anything other than call up a script for an NPC - With players there's a fair bit more going on.