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Out of curiosity, can you provide me a list of MMO's that have speech bubbles?

I can give you the names of the ones I've played. Obviously it's not all MMOs, as there's no way in hell I'll ever play all MMOs out there. However, MMOs that I know have them as I have played them (and they in no way affected performance): WoW, Rift, Aion, LotRO, and TERA. There are two MMOs currently under NDA that I can't remember if they have it or not, but I think they did.

[edit] Thank you, Ildur!

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I can give you the names of the ones I've played. Obviously it's not all MMOs, as there's no way in hell I'll ever play all MMOs out there. However, MMOs that I know have them as I have played them (and they in no way affected performance): WoW, Rift, Aion, LotRO, and TERA.

Thanks for the list, not exact what I was expecting after you mentioned that almost every freaking MMO has them. :/ I'm poking around these now and seeing what they look like. I'd like you to reconsider your last statement though, saying that a graphical element has no way affected performance is a blank statement with no substance, and quite frankly not true. Every single UI element, effect, model has an effect on performance. If a game has speech bubbles then it means that the engine was designed to handle that element rendering. It's how that's balanced that matters, it could be that FFXIV is specifically designed to not support speech bubbles because that want other things to render on the screen. It doesn't mean they can't add them in the future, but when they do they'll likely update the UI performance in general.

Funny enough I came across an older FFXIV thread about the same topic:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...bbles-Thoughts