Chat Bubbles (nerd-rage...ENGAGED!)

[Darki]

This just in: Immersion obsessed players demand VOIP protocol with built in voice morphers for their MMOs.

More at 11.

Darn! I was gana suggest that!

[MeeDeggiThePunisher]

I'm gonna say yes, but only if they make it where you can't turn it off.

/evilgrin

[Edeline]

@Topic: If we actually had an option to enable/disable it, I think it would be reasonable and would make both sides happy. If not, then I'd suggest to never implement this screen-nightmare D:

[MilesSaintboroguh]

PS3 limitations

[Ilitsa]

PS3 limitations

Oooh, how edgy and original of you, go back to last year, that comment is old.

[ruskie]

Nooooooooo

[Darki]

I'm awesome!

Hmmm....it seems to be missing something.

I'm awesome!

Ahh much better!

[Gilraen]

It's not so much 'console limitations' as it is that they can be disruptive. Chat bubbles were the dominant means of chatting in the PS2 game Phantasy Star Universe, and even had an interesting system where the same chat bubbles, like exact same, would merge into larger bubbles. The problem is that chat bubbles work great in single player games, but when you get 2-3 dozen people all chat-bubbling it up at the same time... in the same area, you get alot of screen space blocked by chat bubbles. Anyone who's played PSU can tell you how bad that can get. Especially the larger chat bubbles, those could grow to fill the whole screen.

[Razzle]

Wow so many "I don't want it so no one should have it" comments...

If it will ever be added I bet it will have a toggle, why shoot it down when it doesn't affect you (if you don't turn it on)?

I vote FOR chat bubbles. You guys talk as if chat bubbles ruin games, you forget FFXIV is not the first online game and that countless MMORPG have chat bubbles in them, and guess what, they are not abused or misused.

A chat bubble will be nice to have.

[Seoulstar]

so instead of the chatbox, a perfectly good chatbox, a perfectly good chatbox similar to ffxi.

you want chat bubbles to pop up over people's heads so you can read where the chat came from cause its that important to you. because you have to be looking at that player. because you want to be scoping out their character. because you have to know where that player is standing at that very moment, whether it be near or far.

so when you have a dozen people around you all chatting. all you see is chat bubbles?

No.

I have no idea why I laughed at this so much lol..