Quote Originally Posted by BrachyXIV View Post
How is this any different from Prisms? Animated pop ups that follow your character coordinates around and are so necessary to have like those Indigo Stars. Those sure are some priority intensive necessary coordinate following animated pngs.
Whether the prisms are 2D or 3D, it's something that already exists and had system resources assigned to it.

That doesn't mean additional resources can be assigned to another new thing on top of that. Maybe it could have been done instead but it wasn't and now there's no more power that can be allocated to it.

And yes, the prisms do appear to be 3D objects, even if that object is a flat card with a 2D picture on it. If you move the camera around you will see it changes with perspective, occupying a "real" cylindrical space above your character's head and being "filmed" by the camera, whereas nameplates and speech bubbles are flat 2D objects that seem to be applied over the finished image and aren't affected by perspective.