Chat Bubbles In Game!! Will Make Community Better

[OdahsaeRazo]

There's a lot of people in this thread (who have been playing much longer than I have, from the look of it) talking about how they might miss stuff in the chat box directed at them, or they miss things in party/Alliance chat because they're too focused on what's going on. That doesn't have to be the case, though, and you don't need chat bubbles or third party tools to fix it! It's right here, in the Character Configuration settings:



You can set up sound alerts for certain chat channels, including party and alliance chat. Very helpful for dungeons, I've found; there's been a few instances where I've been focused on tanking, and wouldn't have noticed a message in party chat if it weren't for the sound alert prompting me to look over and see what was said. You can also get alerts if someone emotes whilst targeting you!

Granted, it doesn't do anything for /say (how could it, really) and I know that I'm only speaking from the experience of a new player, but it doesn't seem that /say is even used much. Most of the time, if I see something in that channel it's either an RMT bot, or just two/three people speaking directly to each other. 99% of public chat that I see going on between folks is through /shout or /yell.

[Controller]

There's a lot of people in this thread (who have been playing much longer than I have, from the look of it) talking about how they might miss stuff in the chat box directed at them, or they miss things in party/Alliance chat because they're too focused on what's going on. That doesn't have to be the case, though, and you don't need chat bubbles or third party tools to fix it! It's right here, in the Character Configuration settings:



You can set up sound alerts for certain chat channels, including party and alliance chat. Very helpful for dungeons, I've found; there's been a few instances where I've been focused on tanking, and wouldn't have noticed a message in party chat if it weren't for the sound alert prompting me to look over and see what was said. You can also get alerts if someone emotes whilst targeting you!

Granted, it doesn't do anything for /say (how could it, really) and I know that I'm only speaking from the experience of a new player, but it doesn't seem that /say is even used much. Most of the time, if I see something in that channel it's either an RMT bot, or just two/three people speaking directly to each other. 99% of public chat that I see going on between folks is through /shout or /yell.

Pretty much what I've been saying. We get a godly amount of tools for this. It just takes looking around and a bit of reading and boom. And thats not even half of it. Like I mentioned above, you can make the actual chat block what you want it to be, put what you want in said box and make the channels to your liking. It's almost endless.

[HollowedDoll]

Pretty much what I've been saying. We get a godly amount of tools for this. It just takes looking around and a bit of reading and boom. And thats not even half of it. Like I mentioned above, you can make the actual chat block what you want it to be, put what you want in said box and make the channels to your liking. It's almost endless.

Yeah, I mean that's cool and all but some of us don't really want to look in the lower left corner at all times, having the options to have chat bubbles for certain channels would only be giving us more options, which is... bad.. how?

[Poporito_Popoto]

Yeah, I mean that's cool and all but some of us don't really want to look in the lower left corner at all times, having the options to have chat bubbles for certain channels would only be giving us more options, which is... bad.. how?

How much dev time are you willing to sacrifice for this?

[HollowedDoll]

How much dev time are you willing to sacrifice for this?

What kind of a stupid question is that, none of us are in any place to sacrifice anything.

[Controller]

Yeah, I mean that's cool and all but some of us don't really want to look in the lower left corner at all times, having the options to have chat bubbles for certain channels would only be giving us more options, which is... bad.. how?

You can also move the box to any part of the screen you want it to be, and also change the size od the box. You can even split the box apart by channel. I say this as we already have options, just mess around with the settings and you'll get what you want. We don't need bubbles all over the screen when we already have the tools for what you're asking for.

And this option is only bad because we already have ways of doing what people are asking for. To read chat easier. I honestly think people just want bubbles because insert whatever game here has them. And these people never bother to actually mess with the settings to see if they can make the chatblock easier to begin with.

[HollowedDoll]

You can also move the box to any part of the screen you want it to be, and also change the size od the box. You can even split the box apart by channel. I say this as we already have options, just mess around with the settings and you'll get what you want. We don't need bubbles all over the screen when we already have the tools for what you're asking for.

And this option is only bad because we already have ways of doing what people are asking for. To read chat easier. I honestly think people just want bubbles because insert whatever game here has them. And these people never bother to actually mess with the settings to see if they can make the chatblock easier to begin with.

Again, that's great, but this isn't that. Chat bubbles would float above the head of whoever says it, they don't even compare. You could easily see the target who initiates speech in a larger crowd too, just because you can move the chatbox around doesn't make up for this functionality. Also plenty of games have this functionality, having more options is not bad, sorry. It's unlikely the functionality will be added but it's not a bad thing to request it.

[LisSquid]

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I tried all this when I was new. Do you know what the chorus of Hell sounds like? Sounds like your neat little notification sounds all chiming at once. Screen flood is the issue some of us have, and adding a SOUND to it is actually WORSE.

Not to mention you can't just easily scroll in your chatbox. If you're not holding the button down, it will snap to the newest line every time someone else inputs something into the chat.

[Raikai]

I tried all this when I was new. Do you know what the chorus of Hell sounds like? Sounds like your neat little notification sounds all chiming at once. Screen flood is the issue some of us have, and adding a SOUND to it is actually WORSE.

Not to mention you can't just easily scroll in your chatbox. If you're not holding the button down, it will snap to the newest line every time someone else inputs something into the chat.

Basically, this. Plus, even getting the notification sound I still have to take my eyes out of the main action to see what they posted, and hopefully not having to scroll up if your other chat boxes are spammed.

Not everyone owns a huge screen to be able to separate different chat windows in different parts of the UI.

Chat bubbles are a standard feature in all other MMOs i’ve played, it’s beyond me why having it here as an option causes so much discordance.