Quote Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor View Post
Chat and Emote bubbles (comic book style) are a cool part of the game that I would love to have. It is some times very hard to see what people are saying and the bubbles over peoples head has always made it much much easier. Its a lot better then always looking in the corner.
I'll admit that I do miss this kind of thing from other MMO's, but what you don't realize is that RMT LOVE this this feature and will place their spammers near every spawn point in the game and just spam non-stop on top of the existing tellfriendspam.

Any implementation of this has to work exactly like the NPC version, which means you don't see it unless they are 8 yalms or less away. The mechanics for it are in the game, it's just a matter of how much UI cruft that can run. Having stuff like this running is memory intensive because it has to have two copies of the chat, one for the scrollback and one for rendering the comic bubble, and then has to hold the second copy until the player stops talking. Someone who chats rapidly will quickly occupy all the available screen space in congested areas.

Not opposed to it, but let's not give the RMT any more tools with which to annoy us.