Speech Bubbles - Thoughts?

[Pnight]

First ever forum post:

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

[Majidah]

really shot in the head? angry much because we disagree with text bubbles? text bubbles imho is way to cartoony and more immerison breaking than looking at my chat window. my evidence

chat window: all dialog organized nice and clean, and ORGANIZED in a manner at which I can read it quickly and in the correct order. I also won't miss something someone says because they are not directly in front of my camera.

Chat bubbles: pop up, overlap and not organized in a fashion to easily follow the conversation, if a lot of people talking at once you see chat bubbles EVERYWHERE! way to much to try and read at a quick enough pace to keep up with conversations because I might have to shift my camera around to try and read all the comments, then it comes down to battle: It would clutter up my screen while I am wanting to use my mouse to select my target, I also might miss a prompt due to maybe my camera angle in the fight. I have played MMO's with chat bubbles and It was so hard to read what was going on because majority of the time just to see everyones chat bubbles without them over lapping each other would have to be directly overhead completely scrolled out so I can see the person that the chat bubble came from and then what they said...

Yes, And its not because you disagree. There's plenty of people who want chat bubbles, and if they are toggeable then there's no reason why to be against them. [Removed by Moderator according to the FINAL FANTASY XIV FORUM Guidelines.] They are just taking gratification off other people being denied something that wouldn't even modify their own gameplay.

Fensfield wrote down my thoughts exactly (although ten times more polite)

Oh I would kill for this.. it's been my number one requested feature from day one, and was my biggest dislike of FF XI, too.

Sure, there are people here don't like it, but all of the reasons not to like it that I've seen could be answered by simply making them toggleable, which would be the logical thing to do anyway. I mean, really, all these people screaming yay! over them not being implemented.. seriously? Why not just a toggle option? Is it really so horrific giving the people that really want them the option when you can just leave them switched off? That strikes me as kinda jerk-y..

Even if someone official's come in and said there are no plans at this time, I really hope that opinion changes eventually. Speech bubbles, be they transparent boxes of Vagrant Story-esque (which is something can already be said of FF XIV's style) bubbles, would, for me, go a very long way for making this world perfect.

[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.

[Vesperia]

It's not like anyone even talks anyways.

[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?

[Delmontyb]

We heard back regarding the possibility of implementing speech bubbles as a chat tool. The team let us know that there are no plans to use speech bubbles in the game, but that they are working to improve the chat windows, and chat system, so if you have any feedback I'd be happy to pass it along. (I don't think this thread works for those kind of suggestions, so perhaps a new one?)

I would love to see some widgets that allow us to connect to Ventrillo, teamspeak, or any other chat service, in game... What I mean by this is that since playing in full screen I have no way of seeing who is talking or switching channels and having an in game widget would be a very nice and useful touch, at least until alt-tab starts working.

Now, I know that wouldn't be a high-priority request, but I think it would help and be a nice tool. If not by SE then by other users when we can customize the UI.

As for communication, I would like to see notifications when friends sign online or offline and even with linkshell members join the channel etc.

I would like to be able to communicate between shells with a /l1 /l2 /l3... to talk with the other linkshells I have equipped, without having to switch shells all the time. /l would always work for my equipped shell.

I would love to be able to send messages to another player even when they are offline, this could work with the mailbox system so it would be nice to send messages or items as needed.

I would also like to have an LS message and even a better UI for doing all the other LS things that have been suggested, so I won't get into those here.

Elements like <call1> would be excellent, and being able to increase the font size of the text is key... Playing on a big screen, I find that the text is too small, but I love having so much space for other things. Give us the ability to increase font size.

Thanks for listening Bayohne, and have a great day.

[Abriael]

No speech bubbles, jumping lowered n priority and very possibly never implemented... Lots of good news about lame features not coming lately

@Delmont: encourage your LS to use mumble, it has a very nice overlay that will allow you to operate the chat and see who's talking without alt/tab

[SolArisa]

We heard back regarding the possibility of implementing speech bubbles as a chat tool. The team let us know that there are no plans to use speech bubbles in the game, but that they are working to improve the chat windows, and chat system, so if you have any feedback I'd be happy to pass it along. (I don't think this thread works for those kind of suggestions, so perhaps a new one?)

No, please not. Please not.

You don't have to copy everything from Warcraft to become successful, you really do not have to.

[Dreamer]

No, please not. Please not.

You don't have to copy everything from Warcraft to become successful, you really do not have to.

Seriously? Seriously?

Chat bubbles have been used in games for a long, long time before WoW was even a twinkle in Blizzard's eye. They've been a fantastic tool for multiplayer games for ages.

Even though it's basically /thread since the devs have weighed in, I'm still very disappointed that it's not going to be at least a toggleable option. Having to keep my eyes glued to my chat window to interact with players is pain.