I hate the lack of chat bubbles.

LOL. I'm sure the Jawa jokes would definately be less annoying with chat bubbles. Most of what ppl have to say in general chat is nothing but nonsense. Chat bubbles would just add a "stereo" effect to the stupidity. I LOVE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE NO CHAT BUBBLES. That means i have to look down to see the stupidity, with chat bubbles they will be in your face all the time.

You type while your defending the goaline in huttball? I pray I'm never on your team.

Chat bubbles are always the first thing I turn off.

After the ball is in our posession. Only 3 characters to type /no and I'm a pretty decent speed typer But that's just me. You'll also catch me shooting up a flare from my flare gun as me and my team charges out of the gate and heads to south, lol.

As for chat bubbles 'slowing down the system', like people have said just allow it to be toggled off or set to a certain distance. It seems like a lame excuse. That's like saying "we won't impliment shadows into the game because it causes a lot of slow down on old systems"

...well yeah, but still...put it in for those who can handle it.

This is not WoW! Chat bubbles ruins the community!

easy, just give players the option to turn on or off. I like the idea bc i miss whispers all the time but i also dont want to lose immersion so.. turn on/off chat bubbles should work.

The game has a problem with rendering interface elements ingame.

Turn off nameplates and you'll probably get a major FPS boost. At least on lower end computers.

The game cannot handle chat bubbles. Accept it, and move on.

I agree, I want chat bubbles too. However, they would have to do something about the chat system first because nobody wants to see a sea of chat bubbles and deal with 3 fps on the fleet where 200 people are standing in one spot all talking at the same time.

What they should do:
-Create a local chat channel with a limited radius, say only sees messages from players within 30-40 meters (could give you a slider to adjust if they were in a truly generous mood)
-Give players the option to default to local channel for your primary chat channel, rather than defaulting to general chat.
-Make chat bubble only function on local and group chat channels
-Give players the option to limit how many bubbles will show at one time, starting with the closest player and working out (from 0-20 sounds like a good range to me).
-Make chat bubbles generation client-based and not server-based so the server doesn't have to get bogged down with that and just has to run an additional chat channel.

This would:
-Give people that are just in love with arguing with everyone on the planet the option to not use the local channel and people that don't want to see all that garbage a chance to just use local chat with or without bubbles.
-Give people the option to limit how many they are looking at or disable them altogether if they want.
-Prevent everyone from dropping to 3 fps as the server tries to generate 200 chat bubbles on 200 players screen at the same time on 4 different instances of every planet simultaneously.

I don't think you'd see too many people spewing stupidity in local chat, they wouldn't have a large enough audience to feed their ego if only the couple people near by could see what they were saying.... you all know who you are and you know I'm right, so your spam argument is right out the window.

I would like you to explain how, because in SWG they were great. chatting around the starports, battlezones and cantinas was awesome, and you didn't have to be cosntantly staring at the freaking chat window in the corner of the screen.

I would truly like to see how they could "ruin the community".

Agreed, the idea of having my screen filled with chat bubbles isn't exactly all that exciting.