Say Chat (Text Bubble)

[Genesis88]

Yeah I agree, also against that mess.

[Ri_ri]

Bad example. These are merchant shops and chat rooms.

WoW uses chat bubbles and it's great during battles because you don't have to take the eyes off the action to read. It can even be used as positional check.
Imagine passing Rot with a chat bubble. It could be actually fun instead of a raid-wiping chore.

[Errors]

Bad example. These are merchant shops and chat rooms.

WoW uses chat bubbles and it's great during battles because you don't have to take the eyes off the action to read. It can even be used as positional check.
Imagine passing Rot with a chat bubble. It could be actually fun instead of a raid-wiping chore.

I realize that, but we don't have a dedicated merchant shop room/channel/location. Which means that bleeds over to normal open world content. World of Warcraft also has a character limit on chat bubbles to prevent speech bubble from taking up too much screen real-estate, as well as lower graphical textures and models than FFXIV does. Resourcing between the two games are different.

I can still see your point, but they could also be made to toggle so that if you don't want to see them, you don't have to.

Yes, as many have already mentioned. I realize it, but I rather the game's rendering engine not be taxed, the developers spend time on this when they could spend time on other content for the game...like Chocobo raising! (or something silly fun), I believe it breaks the creative look-n-feel for the environment, it's not required to play the game currently, possible spamming potential.

And really, if a feature is being added that is immediately turned off, what sort of feature is that to begin with?

[AliceKaye]

I'm on the side against having visual speech bubbles. I don't care what reason was given about limitations. My concern is the screen clutter. Can you imagine being in Mor Dhona or in towns or FATES? Oh, I can turn it off you say? How about we just not have SE waste time even working on it and put your energy towards actual content for the game?



That's my 2 gil on the topic.

I just want to mention, for the record, that those are not chat bubbles. They're little messages that stay put, advertising someone's little shop in RO.

I can still see your point, but they could also be made to toggle so that if you don't want to see them, you don't have to.

EDIT: Someone beat me to it.

[Elazu]

I'm on the side against having visual speech bubbles. I don't care what reason was given about limitations. My concern is the screen clutter. Can you imagine being in Mor Dhona or in towns or FATES? Oh, I can turn it off you say? How about we just not have SE waste time even working on it and put your energy towards actual content for the game?



That's my 2 gil on the topic.

Those are not speech bubbles.

[Rekujen]

I'm on the side against having visual speech bubbles. I don't care what reason was given about limitations. My concern is the screen clutter. Can you imagine being in Mor Dhona or in towns or FATES? Oh, I can turn it off you say? How about we just not have SE waste time even working on it and put your energy towards actual content for the game?



That's my 2 gil on the topic.

Nice try... those aren't chat bubbles, those are merchants selling items because Ragnarok Online doesn't have an Auction House.

chat bubbles don't clutter the screen, they work perfectly fine in other MMORPG's and it seems pretty stupid and out-dated not to have them in FFXIV... the amount of times people miss chat because it doesn't appear on their screen is disgusting.

[saber_alter]

i wouldn't mind this, as long as it is limited to just /say.

or the rest of the chat log bubbles are toggle-able.

[AliceKaye]

I really have come to prefer chat bubbles, as a role-player it just makes it easier to keep track of what's going on. I really wish SE could implement them to the PC client, since it's apparent that the PS3 client can't handle it.

[Dreamer]

Anyone who does any RP of any kind can tell you that chat bubbles are a borderline necessity. There's nothing more annoying than having to sit and watch your chat window like a hawk to make sure you don't miss anything.

To all of those warning about clutter...if you've actually played other games with them, then you know that clutter is a complete non-issue. And in that RO screenshot, those were stationary shops, NOT chat bubbles. Besides, if they were to implement this feature, it would definitely be something you could turn off.