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No chat bubbles ever

EhllfhireEhllfhire Member UncommonPosts: 633
in Final Fantasy XIV
As per the lengthy dev post today by the producer, they will not be adding chat bubbles to the game ever, because of memory issues. I guess he meant because of the ps3.

Any graphical, audio, or gameplay restrictions not seen in other mmos but found in FFXIV can be blamed on one thing.
PS3

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  • ElRenmazuoElRenmazuo Member RarePosts: 5,361
    chat bubbles are terrible, I always turn them off if I have the option to do so.
  • TorcipTorcip Member UncommonPosts: 669
    No chat bubbles, but you will see character's actually talking when you're chatting.
  • YaevinduskYaevindusk Member RarePosts: 2,094

     

    It's hard to allocate things to features that only Role Players and RPG gamers (or comic lovers) would enjoy.

     

    While it's a massive improvement of "life-quality" for RP, if their reasons have to do with resources and memory, then that's that for now.  Good to see that they at least looked into the possibility and would like to revisit it in the future.

     

     

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  • ElRenmazuoElRenmazuo Member RarePosts: 5,361
    Originally posted by Torcip
    No chat bubbles, but you will see character's actually talking when you're chatting.

    Yea the lip syncing feature is more immersive

  • BrooksTechBrooksTech Member Posts: 163
    /yawn
  • WarlyxWarlyx Member EpicPosts: 3,368
    Originally posted by tkreep
    Originally posted by Torcip
    No chat bubbles, but you will see character's actually talking when you're chatting.

    Yea the lip syncing feature is more immersive

    but if u are reading the chat u wont see the lips :P

     

    chat bubbles are nice for easy reading in the middle of the battle , easy to see who said what ,and where they are....

     

    SE wont add bubbles because ps3 limitations or some "tech" problems, because is retarded to no have the option at least.

  • dreamscaperdreamscaper Member UncommonPosts: 1,592
    Originally posted by Br3akingDawn

    Did Yoshida really change what he said? all i heard from him is

    On the PS3 version, the text in the speech bubbles is too small, so please adjust this.

    		 After Launch As this occurs during battles as well, making it too large would affect battles, so we will look into this as well as a setting where you can adjust the size after launch.
     
     
     
    I would think he is keeping the chat bubbles for now.

     

    They're only for NPCs, not players, which was what was being requested.

     

    I wish they would just drop PS3 support. It's far, far too much of a bottleneck.

    <3

  • StarskinsStarskins Member UncommonPosts: 24
    Originally posted by dreamscaper
    Originally posted by Br3akingDawn

    Did Yoshida really change what he said? all i heard from him is

    On the PS3 version, the text in the speech bubbles is too small, so please adjust this.

    		 After Launch As this occurs during battles as well, making it too large would affect battles, so we will look into this as well as a setting where you can adjust the size after launch.
     
     
     
    I would think he is keeping the chat bubbles for now.

     

    They're only for NPCs, not players, which was what was being requested.

     

    I wish they would just drop PS3 support. It's far, far too much of a bottleneck.

    I couldn't agree more.

  • AlberelAlberel Member Posts: 1,121
    Originally posted by Starskins
    Originally posted by dreamscaper
    Originally posted by Br3akingDawn

    Did Yoshida really change what he said? all i heard from him is

    On the PS3 version, the text in the speech bubbles is too small, so please adjust this.

    		 After Launch As this occurs during battles as well, making it too large would affect battles, so we will look into this as well as a setting where you can adjust the size after launch.
     
     
     
    I would think he is keeping the chat bubbles for now.

     

    They're only for NPCs, not players, which was what was being requested.

     

    I wish they would just drop PS3 support. It's far, far too much of a bottleneck.

    I couldn't agree more.

    My hope is that once the PS4 version is out they can release things like this exclusively for PC/PS4 whilst leaving the PS3 version to what it can handle.

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