Why no Speech bubbles?

[Goji1639]

I’ve been lurking on the forums long enough to see this topic spring up again every now and then and SE has already said that they have no intention of adding speech bubbles to the game.

Besides, considering how many people would rather have it off, especially in crowded places like Limsa, I don’t see the value of spending resources on it.

What do you all think exactly; that they're going to pull someone off the balance, new content, bug fix, server maintenance teams to do this? They have tons of extraneous developers working on trivial things, and whoever gets tasked with this likely would've been doing something equally trivial, or possibly nothing. They have developers who work on important stuff and developers who do menial stuff. One doesn't effect the other.

Not just RP! It's useful to spot messages in the middle of the chaos of a dungeon run for example. Sometimes you can't afford to take your eyes off the middle of the screen. Having it pop up there as a bubble would be quite handy.

Also, this. I CONSTANTLY miss messages in chat when we're in the heat of a boss fight. My priorities are health bars, mechanics, CD's, cast bars, etc; all of which are in my immediate view. The chat box is rightfully out of the way. If a little text box with an "Over here!" or "Attack this" popped up in a relevant spot that would be far more noticable and make on the spot mechanic communication during a chaotic fight less annoying.