Word on chat bubbles?

Chat bubbles are generally only enabled on "local" channels, like /say or /group.

May have had employees involved in other MMOs, but as a company it's their first venture into MMO waters.

But you think an LFG tool is? I mean if you're talking about priorities(or whoever you spelled that lolololol) and what our players NEED(you said need), then an LFG tool was simply not needed.

Sure people wanted it. But people were forming groups just find without it. And some still dont use the LFG tool to form groups even with it in.

You dont NEED speeders in the game, you dont NEED quick travel in the game, you dont NEED a lot of stuff in the game. But the devs add stuff that players want. Which will, like you said, help retain the customers you have if you can keep them happy.

I don't know man, I really don't. I talk to people about this constantly as I've been involved in MMO roleplaying communities since 1998.

You've still got to read it. In the chat box, you read the name first, and what they're saying. With the bubble, you've lost the context of the person, it's replaced with an arrow, and the 2D graphics in the 3D world mean that if someone is standing right by them, that bubble is going to be hidden by one right by it.

All I can think of is laziness, really. Either that or people who read slower than I do, and I'm not exactly a fast reader--compared to my wife anyway.

There was no such thing as the Bioware EA company that made SWTOR before it started on SWTOR.

It was basically built from the ground up, the only thing in common it really had with old Bioware was a few people and the name.

However they did have a LOT of people experienced with MMORPGs in this development team - "it was their first MMORPG" just isn't really true, whatever mistakes were made were made for other reasons.

Yep, I can understand people not liking them and wanting to be able to turn them off, but for actual in-game character interaction there's still nothing better than them around.

Then they need to be put on the RP servers ONLY and no where else.

This for sure. I really hate chat bubbles.

There usually is a toggle for chat bubbles in other games. Problem solved.

Then you'd turn them off.