Speech Bubbles - Thoughts?

[Moth]

I don't think it would be aesthetically pleasing. The giant exclamation points over every npc that can hand out a quest is already a freaking eyesore. I don't mind it on the main map, and the mini map, but why does it have to be there right over their heads as well! -,-

[Tebhi]

I like the idea of chat bubbles as long as there's an option to turn them off. There have been tons of times where someone sees me and /says hi, but I don't see it until later because of all the other stuff going on in the chat log. It'd be cool to see that something is being said in /say and (as someone mentioned earlier) maybe even have the character do a talking type of emote.

[Griss]

For the most part i would be against the idea. How ever i could see it being kind of cool for random npc banter in town or in the field.

[Magiksmurf]

Go play phantasy star universe just for 1 day. You will probably hate speech bubbles real bad after that and wished you never started this post.

[Gracious]

Speech bubbles... please >.< no!

[Sephr]

Could we not draw parallels between an MMORPG like FFXIV and a MORPG (it's multiplayer and online, not the same as a persistent world scenario) piss poor game like PSU? For one thing, speech bubbles in PSU always came up on the screen no matter which way your camera was facing, and also for whatever god awful reason this applied to everything anyone said nearby. That is poor design.

Chat bubbles may have served a purpose prior to current MMO design but to implement a chat bubble when you have a chat window is a great example of redundancy and a waste of resources.

Modern MMO's pretty much all use chat bubbles. FFXI, a now-archaic design does not, which is obviously the system FFXIV is based off of. I fail to see that point.
Furthermore, once again, redundancy depends on how it is implemented and it's usage. I for one don't want to constantly have to look at chat logs (I've seperated all chat from the battle log already so it's not like im complaining its hard to see what people are saying). I simply think that if any design is outdated, it's the idea that players of MMOs should constantly be looking at the bottom of their screen at HP bars and logs as opposed to what's actually going on.

Perhaps I'd prefer to have my chatlogs fade out pretty quickly and not even have it on screen most of the time, because most other data aside from communication between players can be seen outside of logs anyway.

Also, saying it's cluttering is, once again, pointless being as if you turn it off it doesn't matter anyway. I made the thread with the intention of discussing it's application and methods of implementation, rather than people going "NO", just like they did with so many other quality-of-life changes we've seen already.

[Belial]

Could we not draw parallels between an MMORPG like FFXIV and a MORPG (it's multiplayer and online, not the same as a persistent world scenario) piss poor game like PSU? For one thing, speech bubbles in PSU always came up on the screen no matter which way your camera was facing, and also for whatever god awful reason this applied to everything anyone said nearby. That is poor design.



Modern MMO's pretty much all use chat bubbles. FFXI, a now-archaic design does not, which is obviously the system FFXIV is based off of. I fail to see that point.
Furthermore, once again, redundancy depends on how it is implemented and it's usage. I for one don't want to constantly have to look at chat logs (I've seperated all chat from the battle log already so it's not like im complaining its hard to see what people are saying). I simply think that if any design is outdated, it's the idea that players of MMOs should constantly be looking at the bottom of their screen at HP bars and logs as opposed to what's actually going on.

Perhaps I'd prefer to have my chatlogs fade out pretty quickly and not even have it on screen most of the time, because most other data aside from communication between players can be seen outside of logs anyway.

Also, saying it's cluttering is, once again, pointless being as if you turn it off it doesn't matter anyway. I made the thread with the intention of discussing it's application and methods of implementation, rather than people going "NO", just like they did with so many other quality-of-life changes we've seen already.

Guess what... this is a public forum, people can post any opinion they like. Don't like it? GTFO.

[Sephr]

Guess what... this is a public forum, people can post any opinion they like. Don't like it? GTFO.

Outstanding.

Am I the only one who sometimes just stares at the battle log to see whats going on/what to do?

This is just wrong. I think chat bubbles would be a nice step towards the visuals reclaiming the player's attention.

Don't like them? Toggle them off. There's no reason why should anyone be against chat bubbles.

That's definitely the kind of thing I was getting at. I think particularly for people new to the genre (such as the guys I got to play who i mentioned previously) who are part of the current generation of gamers, too much goes on in script at the bottom of the page rather than being more directly engaged on the screen in front of you.

[Majidah]

Am I the only one who sometimes just stares at the battle log to see whats going on/what to do?

This is just wrong. I think chat bubbles would be a nice step towards the visuals reclaiming the player's attention.

Don't like them? Toggle them off. There's no reason why should anyone be against chat bubbles.

[Loony_BoB]

I'm in the "I would not want to use this feature if it was a feature" camp. If other people want it, whatever, but I'm not for it being forced on me. Make it set so we can turn it off if it is implemented. Yay.