Chat bubble limit far too short.

[Kegstiki]

The implementation of chat bubbles, while grand in design, has fallen short in functionality.
The character limit being only around 60 character/two lines is far too small of a limit for chat bubbles to be useful, especially when they shine brightest during RP or Venue gatherings where players may want to say more than half of a sentence.
Needing to stop reading the chat bubble to then look at the chat log to see what the rest of the bubble would have said is extremely frustrating, and goes against the very function of chat bubbles.

Would it not be better for the chat bubble to be as large as it needs to be to fit what someone is saying? If a player doesn't like how long the chat bubble is, they could always limit their own down to as many lines as they would like, and since that feature is already implemented with players being able to choose if their bubble is 1 line or 2 lines (1 line seems completely useless) it would give players the agency to make sure their chat bubble limit is within their comfort, while allowing anyone who seriously wants to use the chat bubble feature for RP immersion to actually use the feature, instead of needing to fallback on reading the chat log whenever the bubble gets cut off.

Seems like a huge waste of resources to release a feature that doesn't actually fully do the thing it was meant to do.

What's the point of chat bubbles if you have to stop using them and just read chat log?

[Hallarem]

It honestly has to be a placeholder. You can barely say anything.

[Shinku_Tachi]

Yeah, there obviously needs to be a hard limit, but 60 is a bit much. At the same time, we don't need room for people to write essays. I'd say a character limit of 120 is reasonable, but definitely no larger than 180 characters.

[SkankyRoe]

It honestly has to be a placeholder. You can barely say anything.

You bring up a compelling point. Start small, then respond to player feedback and increase it accordingly. Which would be a good thing if it weren't for the fact that any increases won't likely come until the next major patch which is four and a half months away.

[Haru304]

I've only ever seen chat bubbles, even in WoW, as a good indicator of 'who' is talking and 'when'. I've never seen them as a substitute for a chat box. I don't want my screen flooded.

Spend five minutes with that, in the middle of Balmung's Quicksand.

I dare you.

[LinaAkayomi]

Spend five minutes with that, in the middle of Balmung's Quicksand.

I dare you.

Time and place, as with all things. It's frustrating when you're in a party discussing mechanics and it cuts off the text. 180 characters would be far more reasonable.
I'm betting they went with 60 characters because they developed this in Japanese, in which case 60 characters can convey a lot more of sense.

[Valence]

This only goes to show how little the devs understand about the culture of chat bubbles. They're one of the most request and used feature in any roleplay circle on any game. Was it too hard to make it cap at the exact same length that the chat log paragraphs cap? If anything I've seen what the *gasp* mod that enabled bubbles until now was able to do, and it didn't seem invasive on what I've been shown.

And like everything, just give options to players for our sake! Allow people to turn them off, turn them on, set the limits at which they cap... Why is this so hard to understand?

[Kegstiki]

I've only ever seen chat bubbles, even in WoW, as a good indicator of 'who' is talking and 'when'. I've never seen them as a substitute for a chat box. I don't want my screen flooded.

Spend five minutes with that, in the middle of Balmung's Quicksand.

I dare you.

You can already control how many bubbles appear on your screen, as well as the length of the bubbles (either 1 line or 2 lines) so you already have a lot of control on how much of bubbles you see. I don't see how adding the ability to add more lines if you want to would do anything to hurt anyone else's player experience, even if they are in balmung during peak hours.

[Connor]

More letters too expensive?

Really though as others have said this is easily one of the most requested features they’ve had over the years, so it’s pretty disappointing to see them throw out an ‘unfinished version’ to appease players instead of actually putting in the time/effort for it to be fully realized for release. Is that too much to expect of them? Idk

[ViinaS]

It honestly has to be a placeholder. You can barely say anything.

Should be. But this is SE we are talking about.
There will be no feedback taken and nothing will change.
In their mind they implemented what people wanted and are most likely done and over with it.