Say Chat (Text Bubble)

[frostmagemari]

I don't understand why people keep argumenting with "too much clutter" and "speech bubbles take too much space" when none of it is an issue in other games with speech bubbles. Seriously, stop making up problems to justify the lack of speech bubbles as if it were some kind of magical solution to a non problem.

My sentiments exactly.

Like it or hate it, WoW has more active players in a "small" space then any other AAA MMO and they also have chat bubbles.. but yet, you don't hear complaints of clutter or problems with the chat bubbles. Wildstar, another up and coming MMO to be in open beta soon (and they've already shared more about their game than SE did at release...) is going to have chat bubbles and even with the packed areas due to only one server for the CB, the chat bubbles were not a complaint.

On a second point to this, people that complain that they should use the developers to make actual content? You do know that there are these things called development teams, and the teams can only have so many people on them to work on particular thing before you get overlap (which is at best useless, and at worst hindering); so you can't just keep throwing more bodies on a project and expect more work done. Which means that any team that would be sent to work on this kind of thing wouldn't be helping with the content development anyway.

I really do get irritated by the people that claim "Because i won't use (don't like) the option, no one should even have the option!". The line of thinking is just nonsensical.

Some people may not like more screen clutter or they may whine about "m-m-m-muh immersion!!", but those people can, y'know, turn them off.

This always confused me too.. we're all people sitting in front of a computer/tv while playing, no amount immersion is gonna make you forget that. >.>;