Hey all,

I was wondering what the general opinion of adding speech bubbles to the game is? I'd personally be for it (with a toggle option of course, there would be so much raaage if there wasn't!). I definitely think it makes the world feel more alive if you can see the comments NPCs and players might be making around you without consulting the chat log.

I also think as we move forward it would be nice if NPCs called out to you and such for quests, From the perspective of a new player, it would be much engaging if NPCs called over to you or ran up to you and asked for your help (to guide a player towards the next camp or whatever) if they could just read the text outside of the log.

As I said before, I think it would have to be optional, and also customisable in that perhaps you'd only see bubbles for party members/linkshell members etc.

Another thing to consider is how they'd look, I'd hope they were a bit nicer looking than the lame rift/wow bubbles, Rift's in particular seem to be lacking in quality, but i'd expect given the recent quality of small features added to FFXIV they'd probably end up being pretty nice with a good fade-in/out and font etc.