Are chat bubbles coming?

[Sol4rSky]

or have I read wrong? The worst thing in a mmo, especially one that has social stuff is to not have chat bubbles, chats go amiss, many things go past people cause they're not always looking at the chat box and it takes longer in general to get the attention of people locally unlike a chat bubble. Not whining, just some things, but it'd be great if what I read is true.

[Катюша]

Just one of those things that they've said that they've considered, but no idea if they will actually ever implement them. A feature that might or might not be added, at an unspecified later date in the future.

[The Ultimate Despair]

♥♥♥♥ no. Leave that out of the game. One of the most annoying features I have ever seen.

[Giganx]

It would be nice.

In groups I tend to completely ignore chat; since it's a tiny box at the bottom left corner of my screen it's easy to forget it even exists. It's fine most of the time, but occasionally something will happen like the Healer will AFK and I'll miss it.

Honestly, the chat bubble doesn't even have to contain the chat text. Just a little bubble with a ... to inform me that one of you little minions is saying something, so I know to glance at chat to see what.

[Sol4rSky]

Originally posted by Giganx:

It would be nice.

In groups I tend to completely ignore chat; since it's a tiny box at the bottom left corner of my screen it's easy to forget it even exists. It's fine most of the time, but occasionally something will happen like the Healer will AFK and I'll miss it.

Honestly, the chat bubble doesn't even have to contain the chat text. Just a little bubble with a ... to inform me that one of you little minions is saying something, so I know to glance at chat to see what.

I agree.

Originally posted by RyuzakiMorgoth:

♥♥♥♥ no. Leave that out of the game. One of the most annoying features I have ever seen.

Those are always optional. For example in ESO (Elder scrolls online), by default it's off. If you go to interface settings you can turn Chat Bubbles on and guess what, it has a bunch of lesser options that you can turn off/on regarding the chat, so it's customizible. You can see only local chat if you so desire etc.

[The Ultimate Despair]

Originally posted by Gordon21:

Originally posted by RyuzakiMorgoth:

♥♥♥♥ no. Leave that out of the game. One of the most annoying features I have ever seen.

For you. If it's an optional feature, you can just disable it.

You have never played Phantasy Star Online and it shows.

[lila]

chats going unread could be solved by people reading the chatbox. womp womp.

[Sol4rSky]

Originally posted by lila:

chats going unread could be solved by people reading the chatbox. womp womp.

who knew? It's not like this is a text based mmorpg right? Where people keep eyes glued to the chat only, where say, having the chat pop above characters would be a thousand times better.

Why are some people against this so much lol, it's an optional thing, most mmorpgs have it because it's good.

[GeminiEclipse]

I don't see why it wouldn't be optional. There's already a dozen menus of options for all kinds of stuff and they're still adding more.

[The Ultimate Despair]

Originally posted by Cl3arSky:

Originally posted by lila:

chats going unread could be solved by people reading the chatbox. womp womp.

who knew? It's not like this is a text based mmorpg right? Where people keep eyes glued to the chat only, where say, having the chat pop above characters would be a thousand times better.

Why are some people against this so much lol, it's an optional thing, most mmorpgs have it because it's good.

Because we don't need chat bubbles to hover over characters when there are a thousand things already going on the screen.
People already struggle enough as it is with game mechanics in random party finders without chat bubbles obstructing their view.

[Sol4rSky]

Originally posted by RyuzakiMorgoth:

Originally posted by Cl3arSky:

who knew? It's not like this is a text based mmorpg right? Where people keep eyes glued to the chat only, where say, having the chat pop above characters would be a thousand times better.

Why are some people against this so much lol, it's an optional thing, most mmorpgs have it because it's good.

Because we don't need chat bubbles to hover over characters when there are a thousand things already going on the screen.
People already struggle enough as it is with game mechanics in random party finders without chat bubbles obstructing their view.

https://esohelpportal.s3.amazonaws.com/ESO/Menu/ESO_QuestTrackerOnInterface_EN.png

look down the pic. That's how it'd go like. lol

Did you even read this thread?

[The Ultimate Despair]

Originally posted by Cl3arSky:

Originally posted by RyuzakiMorgoth:

Because we don't need chat bubbles to hover over characters when there are a thousand things already going on the screen.
People already struggle enough as it is with game mechanics in random party finders without chat bubbles obstructing their view.

https://esohelpportal.s3.amazonaws.com/ESO/Menu/ESO_QuestTrackerOnInterface_EN.png

look down the pic. That's how it'd go like. lol

Did you even read this thread?

First of all, just because other devs do one thing, does not guarantee that the devs from XIV would. You are assuming things. Nothing else.
Secondly, there are absolutely people who would use it and cause issues no matter if you or I would use it. There ARE people who would use it and then die like geniuses because of chat bubbles popping up everywhere on their screen.

This would be a complete nuisance either way. This isn't ESO. It ain't playing like ESO.
This is FFXIV, with a heavy emphasis on visual field mechanics that need to be followed.
And seriously. If you cannot follow the damn chat, it really sounds like a you issue. I have never seen anyone complain about not being able to read the chat. If nothing else, people woudl rather hide the entire thing instead of having it, so I really don't see why chat bubbles would ever be a thing if the devs cannot even be assed to let us hide the whole chat box.

[Sol4rSky]

I won't read that lmao you seem not to understand what "optional" toggle if u wish or not means. If you need to bring an a4 argument for something so simple then you're just trolling.

[Sol4rSky]

How would toggling chat bubbles cause issues for everyone involved lmfao, that makes 0 sense. Tell me you got no idea what you're talking about in different words please.

[󠀡󠀡aynhse]

chat bubbles existed in 1.0 but got removed in 2.0.

so I don't think it'll be coming back, along with a large set of things that was good in 1.0

[hagare]

if only