Why no Speech bubbles?

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I think the official response was “servers servers, please understand”. I ‘member this shite bein’ talked about way back when, wit color coded names for friends an’ FC mates. Well we got the friends in orange...! So who knows.



Right, so make it a toggle. Problem solved.

And last I checked, we still couldn't set fc nameplates separately

Maybe eventually...

[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]

It's getting me sad, of how much hate people have, and flame VS something optional, which they don't have to ever use if added or see ... why so mean

[Fhaerron]

Smol indie dev company.

Please, understand.

[Jybril]

It's getting me sad, of how much hate people have, and flame VS something optional, which they don't have to ever use if added or see ... why so mean

Welcome to the FFXIV Forums, where it's like this all the time.
"Optional content/add-ons!? Blasphemy!
If I have to click 2 buttons to turn something off, I'ma riot!"

Punch and cookies on your left.

[rachcouture]

No thank you. Chat bubbles are tacky clutter, and given how long it took for us to get a toggle to disable 'Recommendations' popping up on login after that was implemented, I don't really trust SQX to actually put a setting in for something like this, either, at least not for months at a time.

[TheForce]

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

This rarely works, very unreliable feature.

[Theodric]

I'd like to see them added, though as an optional feature.

[Musashidon]

Blasphemy!

i mean it only natural to not want the horrible abomination called chat bubbles.

toggle or not the game would only be worse with it at all.

[Goji1639]

i mean it only natural to not want the horrible abomination called chat bubbles.

toggle or not the game would only be worse with it at all.

Actually, it's far more natural to be ok with it.

If it has a toggle the only impact it would have is to benefit the people who do want it; it doesn't affect anyone else. So, basically speaking up against an optional feature like this is ONLY done to spite the people who do want it.

This seems to be a REALLY petty community, though; so I can't say this is surprising.