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

[NessaWyvern]

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 mean, NPCs have chat bubbles, and many games have both chat bubbles AND chatbox, and they have worked out fine.
Sometimes I do want to find the person talking to me in the chatbox, so I can give them a "/thumbsup emote or something, and that would be easier to see if there was chatbubbles.