Say Chat (Text Bubble)

[astrobearthe2nd]

hi guys, please like these two posts for the live letter, so we may get a response! d(^o^)b

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1794096

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1794213

[Aegis]

I see no real merit in them.

They are impermanent, meaning if you are afk and come back, you have to check your chat log anyway.

If what the person has written is long, they disappear before you can read them all so you have to start reading *again* in the chat log, wasting time.

If someone is speaking behind you, you can't see it meaning you have to read your chat log, only you are no longer focusing on your chat log because you now are used to looking for chat bubbles.

For RP'ers (I've been known to dabble myself) you either have emotes in the chat bubble, which looks silly because your character isn't saying "leans against the bar and stares moodily into the middle distance" or you have emotes and chat in seperate locations (bubbles/log) which interrupts the flow and can lead you to miss things.

Lastly, I personally, subjectively don't like the look of them.

I don't mind the dev team implementing it as long as it gets a toggle and unless it starts crashing people's PS3s, but I certainly wouldn't want their dev time used on this at the expense of any one of dozens of other things I'd rather see.

[gtasthehunter]

I don't know if it's my computer performance causing it, but every time I go into one of the markets during peak hours and there are dozens of characters loitering about, my computer starts to slow a bit. However, if I hold down X to remove names until I'm through the area there is little to no slowdown. If there were dozens of text bubbles on top of that, visiting the markets would be a nightmare.

You can hide names wouldn't need to press X key, and can even hide the flying text during battles, so i would think it would be possible to hide chat bubbles too if ever added.

[AliceKaye]

I would really like chat bubbles because it would be easier to find and raise the people asking to be raised during FATE's and whatnot. I noticed yesterday that while I was doing one of the FATE's, when I died, I was just ignored. It dawned on me that being a Lalafell, so small and laying in the grass, chances are that no one can really see me. They can see me asking in chat, but why hunt around for someone? If there were chat bubbles displaying above my head, it would be far easier to locate my dead body, raise me quickly and continue on.

They need to rethink their decision on chat bubbles because I think it's hindering more this way, than it would be the other way.

And to those who will say, "Well I don't want them." So toggle them off. Boom, you don't have them.

[Razzle]

I would like and would use chat bubbles. When I first joined 1.0 when it came out, I thought it was weird to not have that in the game... Make it seem so dead and less social.

Even Ragnarok Online has chat bubbles... That game from 2002 ( > . > ;

If it put strain on PS3, make it for PC only...

[Felis]

Chat bubbles are necessary. Without them it's harder to notice someone talking to you on /say, roleplaying get's REALLY boring and a lot of immersion is taken away. No one uses /say because of that, causing the game to look dead.

I know there will be naysayers, so why not add the option to deactivate it if you don't like it?

If you speak to someone in /say, just have him in target and use <t> here and there. Then his name show up in the text.

[Radxen]

I had a nightmare that I walked into Ul'dah and all I saw were text bubbles D:

[Soda]

Please add this. Make it a toggle-able option. Please. Please. Please. Please.

I just don't understand why people argue against this if it can be something optional. Hell, even leave it off by default just to appease these people.

But there are a lot of us that REALLY want chat bubbles, and who feel the game feels VERY DEAD and not-social when they don't exist. You might not understand, but that's fine, not everyone is the same.

[AliceKaye]

I had a nightmare that I walked into Ul'dah and all I saw were text bubbles D:

So turn it off if you don't want to see them. I can't see what the big deal is, if certain people want them on they totally could implement this and make it toggle-able.

[Naunet]

I had a nightmare that I walked into Ul'dah and all I saw were text bubbles D:

I've been in some really crowded cities in WoW. Not once was I ever overwhelmed by speech bubbles.

Also you can, y'know, turn them off.