Say Chat (Text Bubble)

[Ildur]

NPCs have chat bubbles, Errors. You can walk among some cases where you can see up to 4 chat bubbles showing up at the same time. That automatically means the game can handle them and that it does. Sure, you could get, theoretically, a case where thousands and thousands of chat bubbles show up because there's a lot of players. But you can bypass that with just a limit to how many chat bubbles the game can render at the same time. So you could have that chat bubbles stop appearing after 15 or something, which is a hilariously small effect on performance. We already have a hard limit on how many players/effects can be rendered per sector, after all, so the effort to implement them wouldn't take much work and wouldn't put some giant magical strain on our PCs.
I mean, seriously: the game can handle a crapton of UI and 3D elements on screen at the same time without freaking out but chat bubbles are somehow way too much work? That makes no sense.

EDIT: Other MMOs with chat bubbles: Champions Online, SWToR, Lineage 2, Everquest 2, Blade & Soul, Guild Wars 2.