Text Bubbles for our abilities

[Theodric]

No thanks. There's already more than enough going on in-game where abilities are concerned and the vast majority of people would likely just turn the option to display such things off anyway. We've all met that one player who has a text macro for every ability...it gets old pretty quickly.

[16bitBounty]

I feel like I missed something.

some macro with the words brothers in arms and they're like crossing penis'.

[Triniplayer101]

If majority of people will turn it off I don't really see the point in it and I would rather they not waste time on it. I personally wouldn't want this.

This is probably a waste of time because most will either complain constantly or turn it off equaling in wasted dev, besides I'm pretty sure most of us have been in a DF with a rper whos every macro is 3 lines long with ASCII moogles and Berserk macro complete with a countdown.
It seems like macros already serve this purpose and chat bubbles will just make it more annoying.

Pretty much this. The idea of it sounds interesting at first until it actually gets implemented into the game, only for the majority to get sick of it eventually and shut it off.

[zipzo]

If majority of people will turn it off I don't really see the point in it and I would rather they not waste time on it. I personally wouldn't want this.

And the proof you have that the "majority of people" would turn it off is...where?

[Remus]

And the proof you have that the "majority of people" would turn it off is...where?

I'm saying this based on past experience in other games which have chat bubbles and i have played quite a lot of MMOs and most people dislike it because it just gets in the way on the screen. There is a reason why most games don't do it anymore.

Also based on what some people have said in the thread how they wouldn't mind it but they would like to have the choice to turn it off I can make a good assumption that majority of people will share the same opinion and people have asked for this in the past and it gets buried in other threads and forgotten because people generally don't care for chat bubbles that just get in the way.

If people are going to turn it off I don't see the point in investing resources to make this possible. I am sure people don't want to see someone spamming an ability with a quote continuously appearing on their screen it gets annoying.

[Snugglebutt]

No thanks OP, I personally do not want it.

[dementiondrive]

Greetings, everyone!

User Interface

Text bubbles cause a lot more stress compared to logs. Unfortunately, we currently have no plans to implement this feature because of the impact on the hardware.

this was asked back in 2013. we got our answer there. it is still a no. to much resources and technical difficulties with much more clutter after.

i would rather keep the bubbles only for the NPCs.

[zipzo]

I'm saying this based on past experience in other games which have chat bubbles and i have played quite a lot of MMOs and most people dislike it because it just gets in the way on the screen. There is a reason why most games don't do it anymore.

Also based on what some people have said in the thread how they wouldn't mind it but they would like to have the choice to turn it off I can make a good assumption that majority of people will share the same opinion and people have asked for this in the past and it gets buried in other threads and forgotten because people generally don't care for chat bubbles that just get in the way.

If people are going to turn it off I don't see the point in investing resources to make this possible. I am sure people don't want to see someone spamming an ability with a quote continuously appearing on their screen it gets annoying.

...but that's exactly the point. If you don't like it, you turn it off.

I personally like chat bubbles and in fact I still remember being a bit confused as to why FFXIV neglected to have them when I started up so many years ago.

Plenty of games give you the option, and I'd consider ARR to be of the modern generation enough that it's capable of providing the option.

Under your logic games shouldn't have colorblind options either, because a lot of people would keep them off. To me chat bubbles provide advantages from a communication standpoint, I really believe they should be a staple.

[Laraul]

I think the game should show /say chat text in a popup bubble. As it is now /say text just appears in your chat log with no on screen indication of the player speaking. Chat bubbles in these situations would provide some context for listeners nearby. It could even be used to help a player locate another. If someone is coming to you for a trade or a meld or some other reason, you could use "/say Right here" to generate a small popup bubble to help that player locate you. And like /say, /shout, etc you could have the option to enable or disable chat bubbles at will.

People are far to dismissive of this idea. They fear it will be abused and clutter the screen. But how often do you see /say or even /shout comments overflow the log? Occasionally in populated areas you might see this. There's no reason chat bubbles would be used any more. If you don't like them, turn it off.