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.

[Kikosho]

I miss 1.0 Lalafell walk. It was much cuter and just fit better than the current attempt at walking like a Tarutaru.

[Raydeus]

Wow. Awful, awful, awful.

There is NO reason this can't be done when NPCs in-game already have chat bubbles over their heads and it CLEARLY does not affect performance. Just make it a toggle-able option already for those of us that feel that it RUINS chat by not having it. Why do I have to look at a chat window when someone is talking to me? I should be able to look at their character while they are talking. MMOs have had this since Ragnarok Online 15 years ago and there are good reasons why. To us it makes the world feel more alive because I am LOOKING at a character and interacting rather than scrolling around a chat box trying to match someone's name up with their character in my vicinity. Just awful design not to have this.

This is almost on the level of "you can't whisper your friends while in a duty" insanity.

It almost makes you feel like the game's systems are so flimsy (lolPS3limitations+rushed release?) that adding anything to the game will just break it doesn't it? orz

[Gardes]

Thread's too long. Has there been any minion suggestions? They auto disappear when you enter instances, I think. It's a bit of a pain to re-summon them mainly because I simply just forget about them and they waste up hotkey slots. I have many of them and they're never out and about because of this.

There should be an option that lets the minions summon itself, possibly randomly and even auto rotate every 10 mins or so.

[Shika]

It is. If you hold R1 on PS3 (probably RB on a 360 controller, dunno) it will show all your crossbars at once, each assigned to a face button.

So, for example, holding R1 and pressing Triangle will bring you to the first one instead of having to cycle through all of them.

I know ^^ but I would like to just scroll forwards and backwards using the bumpers. I hit the right bumper to switch to the second set on my crossbar, and would just simply like the left bumper to switch back to the one before. (Just a personal preference - also the left bumper is not configured to do anything on my controller when using the crossbar so would kind of make sense in my mind anyway).

[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.

[Gardes]

I really do want chat bubbles!

If this is causing 'too much stress on PS3', then this will have to be one of the many features that PC users SHOULD have but PS3 users don't/can't/won't, NOT focus target bar (I know they will have it soon).

[Camate]

Greetings,

I have a quick update in regards to a targeting-related adjustment.

In patch 2.1 we will be making adjustments to the "target the closest NPC or object" feature so that pets and companions are not included.

[Meirii]

give me my auto dismount!~~

[LenasUchiha]

#1 complaint about the game: removing you from the duty finder if you change class or call your chocobo. So stupid!! DPS queue times are already hitting 40+ minutes and you can waste an entire hour or more of time if you accidentally call your chocobo or want to raise crafting/gathering while you wait. How did an awful system like this get put in place in 2013??