chat bubbles!

[Moheeheeko]

Because the chances of people spamming chat bubbles is undeniable. Ask anyone that played a Phantasy MMO, which did use a chat bubble system. Not even PSU's chat bubble system could stop the spam (if people chat the exact same line they'd all merge into one large chat bubble). When you have two dozen people flooding chat you can quickly become blind from all the chat bubbles blocking the screen.

so make it a toggleable option (you know, like every mmo that has chat bubbles)

Nope. They simply said no.

"memory limitations"