Text Bubbles for our abilities

[Voltyblast]

I would definitely like this choice (also in general), and if people are so afraid of having their screen cluttered in chat bubbles (so many phobias in this game...), make it so that we can take it off at will

But I did hear it was a data issue so who knows, they might do it only in the later future. Or never.

[zipzo]

I have to agree with this. But in (virtual) reality, text bubbles would just and more clutter. But i totally see your side on this. Its much easier to keep your eyes on the battlefield as opposed to darting back and forth between that and the chat window. Its for that reason all my dots have a /ecoh sound effect tied to yhem.
95% of the time, healer/tank will add a sound effect into their more important macros to better allert people on what their doing.

Sooo...turn them off?

[Remus]

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.

[Crescents]

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.

[Ilitsa]

I would definitely like this choice (also in general), and if people are so afraid of having their screen cluttered in chat bubbles (so many phobias in this game...), make it so that we can take it off at will

But I did hear it was a data issue so who knows, they might do it only in the later future. Or never.

It's not so much a phobia, as much as it is people knowing what will happen with it because of what already happens with the chat box macros. Some people feel a need to macro every. single. skill with sound effects, text crap, emotes, etc. it gets hella spammy as it is, and this would only make things worse overall

[Altanas]

I think its a good idea but only shown to the player themselves and not towards the party, so basically part of their own HUD. And it should be used to tell the player that cooldowns are ready.

It would be a quick and easy way to know when cooldowns are now available again. It would compliment what we have now. I know you can do this with placing a hotbar in the middle of your screen with abilities on, but a text bubble would mean it wont be there 24/7.

It should be customisable so you can select which cooldowns per job you want popping up.

[16bitBounty]

the macro "insert favorite nonsensical anime quote" spell or (gigantic bear penis sword fighting) picture is annoying enough in the chat log.

[Ragology]

I'd like it if there were an option to turn a party members entire body a certain color when they've been afflicted with a status I can Esuna/leeches/ED off. That way I don't have to keep my eyes darting to the HP bars so much.

[Crescents]

or (gigantic bear penis sword fighting) picture

I feel like I missed something.

[Voltyblast]

It's not so much a phobia, as much as it is people knowing what will happen with it because of what already happens with the chat box macros. Some people feel a need to macro every. single. skill with sound effects, text crap, emotes, etc. it gets hella spammy as it is, and this would only make things worse overall

Even to the point of disregarding an idea before even implementing "for fear of abuse"? I mean we don't have it, we can't know what would happen, but people are already saying it can be potentially "abusive" (in this case, risk of spam).

You don't know yet! Infact for all we know all of this "risk of spam" might never happen. Hence, having more like a "fear" than an actual "concern".

This is a very recurrent "mentality" in the game, so much that it just feels like phobia at this point. Don't want parser because abuse, don't want team roulette because of abuse (which is now removed, thankfully), don't want bubbles because spam abuse.

If at least there were some actual true reasoning behind "why it's a bad idea" instead of immediately disregarding it as "potential for abuse". I mean sure it can get spammy so hey, just make an option to remove. Don't have to NOT put it all together. Same for many other features really but this is what it seems to be for the most part: disregard because it can be abused.

I dunno, maybe I'm just too pessimistic at this point so, just nevermind me but I did feel like giving my two cents on a relatively harmless feature...