Text balloons in /say chat

[Inuk9]

I think some people thought that but I really wish we had balloons popping out of our characters head when we talk in /say chat. That would help to see if a person next to you is saying something.

Have Yoshida said something about that in the past?

[Halivel]

I... am not sure if it's actually a good idea? I just imagined Eureka, where people use /say chat a lot, and the screen almost completely covered with balloons. And more than that they will just change every second because of "one word per message" thing.

[Kirajah]

I... am not sure if it's actually a good idea? I just imagined Eureka, where people use /say chat a lot, and the screen almost completely covered with balloons. And more than that they will just change every second because of "one word per message" thing.

I've been in Eureka a lot and 90% of the people use shout chat.

That being said, bubbles could be disabled in instances aside from your party members maybe?

Bubbles are honestly nice, its easy to miss new text in the window, especially if someone is crafting/spamming emotes/etc. The bubble would still be on your screen to read.

[Inuk9]

I've been in Eureka a lot and 90% of the people use shout chat.

That being said, bubbles could be disabled in instances aside from your party members maybe?

Bubbles are honestly nice, its easy to miss new text in the window, especially if someone is crafting/spamming emotes/etc. The bubble would still be on your screen to read.

You could also filter it with options like "friends only or party only".

[Gula]

You could also filter it with options like "friends only or party only".

This right here. You have multiple tabs, and I highly doubt the mass majority use Battle when just talking on the streets. I have mine filtered to Say/LS/Retainer/Craft+Free Company. No mess, shiny green notifications. There's also the option for the additional tab to detach. Make that for talking with friends chat and it's essentially a perma bubble. The tools are already there.

[Raikai]

Simple as many other features: make it an option in the chat config menu: "Show player chat bubbles."

I really wanted this for too long, because of dungeons and raids.

Let me tell you, sometimes (esp. as a healer) I have to keep my eyes glued to the central part of the screen, where I put the party frames, resources, etc. Sometimes a player types something important in /p and I miss it because of that. If I could have chat bubbles appearing, I could've seen it because it would actually be in my field of view.

So, please... Chat bubbles, but make it optional. And while you're there, also an option to stop text auto scrolling when you're looking back old messages.

[FallenArisen0990]

I might be wrong but I think 1.xx had a similar feature with pop up messages. I think it was just facial expressions but I could be confusing this with an entirely different MMO.

[Paladinleeds]

I might be wrong but I think 1.xx had a similar feature with pop up messages. I think it was just facial expressions but I could be confusing this with an entirely different MMO.

Wow does this for most chats... I definitely remember say and party doing it, but I think they all did, but the text colour changed dependent on what chat mode you used.

[Allegor]

Wow does this for most chats... I definitely remember say and party doing it, but I think they all did, but the text colour changed dependent on what chat mode you used.

They do, I actually changed my text colors to be closer to how it's in WoW out of habit (/tell is pink, party chat is blue, fc chat is green, etc). I honestly miss the speech bubbles - unless it's a really long text, it's easy to read then and there rather than deviating my eyes to the corner of the screen. I can see why it would become a mess when there are many people typing at once, like the other comment said, but it'd be nice to have at least as an option that can be toggled on/off.

[Canadane]

I might be wrong but I think 1.xx had a similar feature with pop up messages. I think it was just facial expressions but I could be confusing this with an entirely different MMO.

1.0 certainly didn't have this lol
I am unsure if I'd actually like such a feature or not, I kinda like it how it is now. We mouth words but we don't have chat bubbles.