Speech Bubbles - Thoughts?

[Xmbei]

lol not to be jerky.... but the toggle feature, so to implement it and make it toggled would mean they wasted their time in development on something that 5% of the community will use while the other 95% has it toggled off, great use of resources there...

edit: and yes same can be said about a lot of the other toggle things they added some are actually useful but i don't like to use them because it gets in the way, I.E. the hp/level/aggro icon bars. While another toggle such as the head display one I like it and use it if I do not like the headgear on my character but definatly could do with out that toggle feature too. but for the speech bubbles that is just a huge annoyance and sure we can toggle it off but I bet to you much gil fellow besaidian that if it was used it would overload your screen with the amount of people that talk at once in a city and would bog you down and hurt your fps and processes just so you can have 50 bubbles popping up on your screen every 2-10 seconds.

[Fensfield]

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Well, first off, I think a good bit more than 5% of the community would use it. Not everyone cares so much as to come here on the forums and scream it up or down, but there's a good chance there are plenty who'd just toggle it on, mildly prefer it, and keep it on. Sure, maybe the majority wouldn't, but I'd bet you at least 30% would - enough to justify it - and wouldn't be surprised if it were used by half the playerbase. Remember, vocal minorities and all that.

Second, toggling it on isn't a one-time thing. I would toggle it on and off as necessary, just as I currently do with player names. Sometimes during combat, they're necessary. Ninety percent of the time they look stupid and unnecessarily gaudy and really do, for me, qualify as unnecessary clutter since unlike speech bubbles, they don't go away once they've given you the information they have to give. If names weren't toggle-able, I might even have quit by now. Though I admit my preferred system would be one wherein names only show up over targeted/highlighted/moused over entities. Or at least where the target data box showed the same info as does the target's name..

As for waste of development resources? Eh, opinion. I say enough people would use it to justify the expenditure, you don't .. gonna have to agree to differ until someone official puts out proper numbers, which themselves can only really be gotten from implementing such a system and finding out - even a poll wouldn't get nearly the whole picture. Though yeah, an official poll would probably help.

Whatever happens, the lack of such a feature is still weird, given while in this case it does appear to be a stylistic choice, the vast majority of MMOs that don't give the option to have character-connected text boxes of some form do so because they're cheap, cynical F2P jobs with a projected lifespan of a year and a half.

[zaviermhigo]

This may sound anti social, but walking by I don't want to see what people say in /say. This feature might be useful for /shout , ex. "I'm some eccentric guy rping as a seller buy my wares", me: "oh crap where is that guy :/, of course they never <pos>" but otherwise I really don't wanna see peoples text in the world except for in my little text bar. I think ffxi and xiv have clean chat bars compared to a lot of games, and I like reading text in that situation when its clean and neat.
edit: I'm okay with being able to toggle them though, thats a compromise that usually makes everyone happy.

[Ceons]

I think chat bubbles would be nice, I would use them I support this. I just would like the option to decide which ones I would like to see (like maybe I just want to see /tell or /linkshell not /say... etc)

Also, let the dev team decide what they can spend their time on and what not. They will also decide when they will spend their time on it and when not. Just think of making this game more popular, give the players the options.. even if it is 30% of the current player base that wants a certain feature, and don't hate

[Pnight]

First ever forum post:

Yay no chat bubble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TirionCrey]

Speech bubbles are unnecesarry and I think by now we saw that the people who are submitting in the forums don't want them(majority here at least)

I'm sorry, but I don't want to run around a city or whereever and see 5 bubbles popping up...especially, how are they gonna work with overlay? Which bubble will overlay over another, would you have to turn the camerka to see the other bubble etc.

It's just not necesarry, this is no comic book.

PS: Why don't we just make the whole game toggable?? I mean, honestly...this whole "toggable" thing for almost EVERYTHING by now that people want is just getting out of hand.

[Zaran_Akikaze]

Agreed, I say no to speech bubbles. Doesn't fit the style of game. I am able to read everything in the chatlog just fine thank you.

[Majidah]

Agreed, I say no to speech bubbles. Doesn't fit the style of game. I am able to read everything in the chatlog just fine thank you.

Have you played vagrant story, a SE rpg with the same lead artist as XIV?

[Zaran_Akikaze]

Have you played vagrant story, a SE rpg with the same lead artist as XIV?

Actually, I have. I enjoyed the game very much so. I see your point, but a game deciding on the what text to show me is different then it popping everywhere from random people talking. Doesn't matter if you can turn them on or off, the chatlog still works the best.

[Ceons]

Actually, I have. I enjoyed the game very much so. I see your point, but a game deciding on the what text to show me is different then it popping everywhere from random people talking. Doesn't matter if you can turn them on or off, the chatlog still works the best.

Chat bubble menu:

Tell Chat Bubble: ON/OFF
Say Chat Bubbe: ON/OFF
Linkshell Chat Bubble: ON/OFF
Party Chat Bubble: ON/OFF
Shout Chat bubble: ON/OFF


Problem fixed. RP'rs are happy, new players are happy... You are happy... I am happy... No spam, no lag no screen clutter. Why do you got to hate a feature you never have to see. It will be there for those who want it, and there are plenty of those.