Say Chat (Text Bubble)

[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).

[Naunet]

I really don't understand why people can be so vehemently against chat bubbles. Chat bubbles. It's not like folk are asking for content to be nerfed to the ground, or for certain classes to be buffed to ridiculous levels, or for an "I win" button or anything. This is freaking chat bubbles. Their presence on someone else's client does not affect you in the least.

[Selfar]

I really don't understand why people can be so vehemently against chat bubbles. Chat bubbles. It's not like folk are asking for content to be nerfed to the ground, or for certain classes to be buffed to ridiculous levels, or for an "I win" button or anything. This is freaking chat bubbles. Their presence on someone else's client does not affect you in the least.

People like immersion. They break it. They're cartoony. It's simple.

[frostmagemari]

People like immersion. They break it. They're cartoony. It's simple.

I'm afraid i have to call you out on the whole immersion thing. No amount of immersion is going to stop people from remembering that you're a person sitting in a chair, holding a controller/mouse and clicking buttons while numbers fly around on the screen.

Don't get me wrong, i enjoy getting engrossed into games but i'm not about to ever forget that i'm playing a game through an interface. And really, how does it break your 'immersion' if the feature was released with the default being off and everyone who wanted it would toggle it on? Not a thing changed in your world.

[Naunet]

People like immersion. They break it. They're cartoony. It's simple.

As a roleplayer, I'm pretty big on the whole "immersion" thing, but I've gotta say... this is kind of a silly thing to get up in arms against. There are a million things in a video game that "break" immersion. Railing against something that you don't even have to use if implemented is ridiculous.

[Gesser]

@Hvinire, please just make it an option

If it's a problem with PS3 capability, you -can- make it a PC only feature... you can make it spatial (they only popup within a certain distance of your periphery) & cap it (only so many on screen at a time; only so many characters in a bubble).

1) easy to implement, 2) it's already in the game for NPC's you walk past, 3) it can be defaulted "OFF"

[Ildur]

Let's use terrible words: You are entitled to have Squee change things for you. You are paying for it. You not only bought it, but you are subscribing to it. All games should come with an option for color-deficient people because, seriously, why not? It doesn't affect any of the other people, since it would be an option. You toggle it off or on as you desire.
It's also a bit innacurate to compare chat bubbles with color modes because chat bubbles are already in game and they do not require a revision of the gameplay. A color mode would require a revision as far as that mod eis concerned, because some battles might use too many colors and you might need to manually tune them.
Chat bubbles, though? I'll repeat: they are already in game. The only thing missing is letting players have them and add a hard limit on how many chat bubbles can be on your screen, since you are all so worried about your screen being cluttered by evil bubbles filled with text.

I'm tired of people insisting that chat bubbles are this VERY hard and TIME CONSUMING to implement thing that CLUTTERS the screen, even though they are (I'll repeat) in the game already and a crapton of other MMOs have it and no one in them has ever complained about chat boxes cluttering their screen. Stop making up problems that are 'solved' by not having chat bubbles.

Addendum: I have just found out they are already toggeable, even. Do you know how I know? Because I walked to some of the NPCs who have chat bubbles and I hit the "Hide UI" button. And the chat bubbles dissapeared.

[Marveth]

Because speech bubbles are super important to the social aspect of the game.

[Edellis]

You'd think it was a /thread when the rep came in and confirmed they wern't doing it.

Memory limitations are real, people. Blame the PS3 all ya want.

I'd prefer chat bubbles, but they're trollbait for spammers, require extra drawing, ect ect ect ect ect. Would help the game, but definitely not worth crying over.

[Tupsi]

You'd think it was a /thread when the rep came in and confirmed they wern't doing it..

This was the /thread, but people demand a reason for the "no" even though I bet if most people demand an explanation and reasoning from their bosses and basically tell them they're wrong for saying no chances are they'll either get 'the look' or demoted for being a ..(insert word of choice.)