Word on chat bubbles?

They cause framerate issues (ROFL). So they won't be coming anytime soon.

Because I, for one, completely ignore the chat window unless I have a specific reason to look at it. Why? Have you tried to say anything on a fleet station and keep up with any kind of response? If you don't group you don't catch anything but inane thing wagging about who's better at pvp and 'wanna sell, wanna buy'. I don't log in to sit staring at the window in the corner of the screen that you can't even follow. Give me chat boxes so if I'm trying talk to someone right beside of me I can at least follow the conversation. No general chat, or any of that other nonsense, just a channel for local "say" type messages, coupled with a channel specifically for people using chat boxes.

Let the pvper's and the thing waggers clutter the chat window all they want, I want chat boxes.

I am neither an RPer or PVPer and I sincerely miss my chat bubbles from SWG.

I am guessing you haven't heard of /whisper.. Or that you can create additional chat tabs and filter what they show or don't show..

Again you really haven't answered the question.. There simply is no reason for them..

What I find funny is that you are complaining about general chat which is confined to a nice little box, but you are ok with looking at countless chat bubbles all over your screen on the fleet.. Seems the nice little box would be far less clutter..

If someone wants to talk to you.. They can whisper you.. Then they don't even have to be right next you.. Not to mention your conversation isn't broadcast to those around you either..

isn't that why we have /tell so you can read what one person is saying or join a group and talk to them.

I don't know every game I have ever done RP in we have always just used a voice sercies like Vent or Teamspeak. To me typing breaks imersion chat bubbles would be even worse.

lolol

I give up with this community. this is the most self centered comment about a highly requested feature(not only from RPers either)

I can just picture a comic book without chat bubbles...

This game has killed its own market and chat bubbles are just one example. They are a must for any type of RP. It's all about immersion and chat bubbles are an industry standard for RP. There are people who bought this game specifically for RPing. Bioware expected enough of an RP market to establish RP specific servers and then destroyed that player base by making it hard to RP in this game.

We know that there were multiple RP servers.... Say 5% of the 1.7mil initial subscribers were die hard RP players. That is a universe of 85k subscribers wanting chat bubbles who would be less inclined to keep playing.

I know what your thinking, "Who plays a game just to RP?" Back in SWG there were tens of thousands of players who had no desire to ever go into combat. They would spend their days as entertainers, crafters, dancers, and farmers. Strangely enough, those people ended up being the glue that held a server community together. The fact that this game has been unable or unwilling to even roll out chat bubbles for those players means a huge section of possible customers will never get into this game.

I was actually thinking along the line of there's no reason not to have them. We know they've already made them because they were here in beta. I say implement them and YOU can turn them off if you don't want to see them.

The current G-H-E-Y chat system SUCKS. I want my boxes. Why should I have modify a bunch settings in a box that's up in the corner that I never look at anyway or have to type "/whisper willywondernuts" every time I want to talk to someone just to make you happy?

You're not the only one playing the game here. If it makes it more enjoyable for someone else and you don't have to use it if you don't want to then leave it alone. On the other hand the current chat setup blows and is a real detriment to this game in my opinion.

The reason not to have them is lag. Bioware, last I heard, was still working on chat bubbles so that they won't lag the game. Hope you guys have it fixed for you sooner rather than later.

but game engine issue and bugs fix are far more important.

and that game died a slow and painful death after being on life support for a majority of it's life...

honestly the people asking for chat bubble are a minority on the forum which is itself a minority of the actual playerbase... so stop saying "huge section of customers" because it's not... hell same gender romance arcs and more races are asked for more so expect to see same sex jawa and wookie relationship story arcs before chat bubble as they would rate higher on the list of player desires