Say Chat (Text Bubble)

[Tupsi]

Thank god. Hopefully this suggestion can finally die. I don't want a million stupid little speech bubbles on my screen, and I'd rather they spend time developing real features instead of a silly way to show your text on screen.

Sadly, even when a developer says no/have no plans/not on the table/not in the cards/have more important stuff to do first people say: "Implement it anyway or you're not keeping to the standard MMORPG formula, just toggle it off if you don't like it."

Even though only a select few MMOs actually have speech bubbles. Hell some of the latest Korean MMOs (the actual 'standard') only have speech bubbles if your party members are far apart and you're on a different chat filter so that way you can see what they actually write - However in ARR you can see what people write perfectly fine unless you're in a location where transparency settings would help.

[Arkista]

Damn am I happy they said no again. It already sucks with the lag in this game, I could imagine what would happen with stupid lol Chat Bubbles. Plus I would rather them work on Content for the game than that stupid crap, Would suck to have text bubble chat with only a few people playing..... (exaggerating).

[Ri_ri]

Thank god. Hopefully this suggestion can finally die. I don't want a million stupid little speech bubbles on my screen, and I'd rather they spend time developing real features instead of a silly way to show your text on screen.

What "real features"?
Things that are standard in other MMORPGs, yet we take ages to get them (if we get them; see: speech bubbles)?
More dungeons to grind, because world bosses and meaningful crafting is a no-no because they're afraid of RMT (I thought we paid them to keep cheaters off?)
More circular room with bosses, that takes ages to beat because the only difficulty about them is memorizing their pattern?

Am I a bad person for expecting more of a subcription MMORPG?
Honestly, I can't be the only one who's constantly let down by the CMs only coming here to say "no" to the simplest, harmless stuff.

[Farah]

I'm glad they said no. Chat bubbles look terrible and cluttered. I hate games that have them. They feel...cheap. And people complaining about not being able to see chat in the chat log...filter your chat log correctly. We have tabs in the chat log for a reason. How about you turn off what you don't want to see since you keep repeating it to others. The chat bubbles would be a complete waste of time developing and implementing for little to no gain.

[Naunet]

We got what we paid for.

I don't know about you, but I'm still paying and that $15 per month is not just me being generous. I'm paying for a service I expect to see continuously improved upon, not a one-time product purchase.

It makes the game look ugly, adds a huge amount of memory usage in populated areas, requires a lot of effort to implement...need I go on?

The first is your opinion, the second and third... well, I'd like to see proof. Even Dalaran and Orgrimmar at their busiest on a high pop server with chat bubbles turned on was never overrun by them. Any lag I experienced there was more because there were literally hundreds of people loading on my screen; the chat bubbles had absolute minimum impact. If a near ten-year-old game can do it, then one re-released in 2013 can as well.

unless you're in a location where transparency settings would help.

This describes pretty much the whole game world. I can't go an hour in game without developing horrible headaches from reading chat.

[JayCommon]

"If stabbing you in the eye does not hurt me, then it will not hurt you!" That's what your logic is saying.

You might as well have just stopped your childish rant immediately after you typed that horrific analogy. Did you honestly, just relegate not having chat bubbles in a video game to being stabbed in the eye? I do not care if you were trying to prove a point to the validity of another's logic, your analogy does not correctly convey anything that had to do with the previous statement. Does it cause you physical pain to not have a chat bubble? I think not.

Unfortunately, I read the rest of what you posted as well. I won't make that mistake again. You have an opinion about why chat bubbles would be beneficial to have in this game. Someone, else stated an opinion of why they don't believe they are needed. So now, the person in disagreement has 'a brain the size of a mosquito?' Good form. Debate isn't your strong suit.

I look forward to not reading anything you have to say on this matter anymore either. Fact is, there is only two of you vehemently arguing for this topic. Personally, I could care less if there are chat bubbles. I have no problem turning them off if they are implemented. Following this debate was fun until I read this post. All your points have been rendered negligible in my eyes as a result of your immature reply.

Please say "it doesn't matter what you think". Your right, it doesn't. It matters what SE thinks. And this is what they think:

Hey everyone,

We see mention of this being discussed in reference to Beta feedback and how we said it wouldn't be implemented then, but just to be clear, we don't have any plans to implement this in the future.

[Tiggy]

Am I a bad person for expecting more of a subcription MMORPG?
Honestly, I can't be the only one who's constantly let down by the CMs only coming here to say "no" to the simplest, harmless stuff.

Are you blind to the fact 2.1 came out and added a bunch of new features? Beastmen dailies, new dungeons, Crystal Tower, Treasure hunts, new primals, moogle mog, plot, etc...
Yes, you are paying a subscription, and despite your snarkiness the fact remains that yes you are getting new content from your payments. You can't act like all of that didn't happen just because they said no to chat bubbles. Listing features you personally didn't like also doesn't change the fact that others like it, and what you have is nothing more than your opinion. You can not act like they developed nothing at all. Get over it.

[Lecreuset]

adds a huge amount of memory usage in populated areas, requires a lot of effort to implement...

here's my obligatory "PS3 limitation and devs are lazy comment"

[Tiggy]

here's my obligatory "PS3 limitation and devs are lazy comment"

Devs can't do anything about a 512mb memory limit. Lazy or not there is no way to change that. You also don't have a single foot to stand on when calling them lazy. It's entirely subjective, and quite honestly, based off nothing at all. You have absolutely no idea how they work, how hard they work, how often they work, or what their work structure is like.

[Selfar]

... Why not?

No, seriously. This hurts no one and it's a much requested feature. So why the heck not?

It's a silly, childish, and far too cartoony idea for this game. It worked in WoW because everything thing looked like a cartoon anyway. Works in games like Ragnarok for the same reason...wouldn't look right at all in FFXIV.