Why no Speech bubbles?

[Canadane]

When I see someone writing in chat, I have no clue where that guy/girl is standing.

Click the name of whoever in the chat log.
Select "Target" in the context menu.

[TheForce]

No thank you dev time can be better spent elsewhere.

Now that's just being subjective. Not a really good point to argue.

[ChocoFeru]

It's easy to implement and can make it optional. It can be fun on small places, roleplay or detecting who's talking/where he is.

[MikkoAkure]

I’ve been lurking on the forums long enough to see this topic spring up again every now and then and SE has already said that they have no intention of adding speech bubbles to the game.

Besides, considering how many people would rather have it off, especially in crowded places like Limsa, I don’t see the value of spending resources on it.

[testname]

lol what resources, it's already on NPC

just make simple option On / Off

Native Off - wouldn't hurt anyone

[Tint]

lol what resources, it's already on NPC

Yeah... I have no intention to use speech bubbles, but I would rather have them than another set of instruments for bard performance for example >.> At least anyone can use speech bubbles, bard performance is only for people on PC who can use a bot to play the music. And maaaaaybe 1 or 2 people who actually bothered to learn that stuff.

A 3 way toggle for on / off and restrict so /say chat (and emotes?) please.

[SDaemon]

lol what resources, it's already on NPC

just make simple option On / Off

Native Off - wouldn't hurt anyone

It isn't as simple as copy/pasting the code used for the NPCs and adding a toggle. It would still require time and personnel [resources] to draft, implement and test.

I'm kind of shocked on the animosity of people against the implementation of an optional feature.

I've no problem if it ends up getting added so long as I have the option to not have my screen cluttered with it. Though I'd still prefer their time and efforts be spent on other things than this.

[Goji1639]

I’ve been lurking on the forums long enough to see this topic spring up again every now and then and SE has already said that they have no intention of adding speech bubbles to the game.

Besides, considering how many people would rather have it off, especially in crowded places like Limsa, I don’t see the value of spending resources on it.

What do you all think exactly; that they're going to pull someone off the balance, new content, bug fix, server maintenance teams to do this? They have tons of extraneous developers working on trivial things, and whoever gets tasked with this likely would've been doing something equally trivial, or possibly nothing. They have developers who work on important stuff and developers who do menial stuff. One doesn't effect the other.

Not just RP! It's useful to spot messages in the middle of the chaos of a dungeon run for example. Sometimes you can't afford to take your eyes off the middle of the screen. Having it pop up there as a bubble would be quite handy.

Also, this. I CONSTANTLY miss messages in chat when we're in the heat of a boss fight. My priorities are health bars, mechanics, CD's, cast bars, etc; all of which are in my immediate view. The chat box is rightfully out of the way. If a little text box with an "Over here!" or "Attack this" popped up in a relevant spot that would be far more noticable and make on the spot mechanic communication during a chaotic fight less annoying.

[testname]

I would love it , and we already have this but only on NPC

( I don't see any problem with have option to turn this on or off , this would see who speaks

for example turn on only for party or on say or what ever, this things should be customized like LS CWLS, and no one cry of any spam )

[Omymy]

The only cool thing about this its if the people uses it for RP. And i would put as a requisite having the "RP" icon on to use the feature.

With the option to report trolls and stuff of course.