Maybe. IF they are optional, and IF it's sometime down the road after they work on the needed systems instead of fluff, because that's all bubbles are.
If optional, yes. Then I could leave them off permanently and that way I'm happy and so is the "I'm a half-vampire" and "Orcs killed my mummy" crowd.
lecarcajou_ESO wrote: »I for one would certainly talk more to people if I had chat bubbles.
Fuzzylumpkins wrote: »Use team speak. This isn't club penguin. Apologies for my bluntness OP but that sounds incredibly dumb.
No.
manyrabidrats wrote: »oh you guys!!! its in the works already! this is a 'request' for something they are already internally testing :P and it will be optional.. read some of thems answering things from tha devs
murklor007neb18_ESO wrote: »Ignorant people keep saying no.
How many people are even talking to each other in this game? Look at the zone chat for a while. Seriously, look at it! How many of the people are having a discussion? Talking about something? Filling the chat bar?
Yeah... right...
murklor007neb18_ESO wrote: »I would be surprised if you saw even a single chat bubble in 10 minutes of gameplay in ESO.
Oh the shock and horror if people within 20m would actually talk to each other if/when ZOS implement speech bubbles. Imagine if this cant be turned off!
No. Chat bubbles are redundant, annoying and break immersion.
purple-magicb16_ESO wrote: »It would make it feel too cartoony, almost juvenile. Like the coyote holding up the "Yikes!!" sign b4 he gets hit in the head with the anvil. lol!
magickats242cub18_ESO wrote: »If the chat bubbles are optional and can be turned off, fine by me.
Personally, to me chat bubbles make me think of cartoons, and this game is not very cartoony, thank the Divines.
Exactly. There's a reason why I've never played any other MMOs, and that reason is that every one I've seen gameplay footage for looked horribly cartoonish. Things like chat bubbles and numbers appearing on the screen are huge parts of that cartoony impression.magickats242cub18_ESO wrote: »Personally, to me chat bubbles make me think of cartoons, and this game is not very cartoony, thank the Divines.
I simply can not understand the folks on the first page of this thread which are against chat bubbles.
And anyway, nobody said actual "bubbles". Didn't both LOTRO and freaking Skyrim (aka an Elder Scrolls game!) have speech equivalent to /say appear as overhead texts to resepctively other players / npcs ?
It break much more my immersion to stand next to 4-5 people and have to look at my tiny chat window overcluttered with 5 guilds and zones to looks at says and need to mouse over people to know who has which name and said what.
Also, those of you who argue about voice chat and groups chat instead, do you NEVER wish to just randomly meet up with random folks while exploring, and start a random chat, for which the /say displayed over your character is the best way to actually STAY IMMERSED the world by looking at it and not at the chat box??
all for optional, but please give us in some way a mean to have /say appear over or characters (with or without bubbles)
As long as it's optional, I don't see it as a problem.
Anyway, they have already confirmed that it's gonna come soon in May 1 Reddit AMA.
"Chat bubbles will be introduced soon".
http://dulfy.net/2014/05/01/eso-may-1-reddit-ama-transcript/
Breaks immersion? This is not a single player Elder Scrolls as some you would like. This is an MMO and not having a basic function to see who is typing and where that person is sucks.
I use an addon called ChatAlert for that.malikwalker_ESO wrote: »At the OP,
All that is needed is a chime or other audible cue that goes off when you recieve a whisper. Would be in line with ZOS's minimalist UI approach as well. If Final Fantasy XI could swing one years ago, i'd be surprised if ZOS couldn't do something similar.
murklor007neb18_ESO wrote: »Ignorant people keep saying no.
How many people are even talking to each other in this game? Look at the zone chat for a while. Seriously, look at it! How many of the people are having a discussion? Talking about something? Filling the chat bar?
Yeah... right...
Do you honestly think that kind of activity would "clog up your screen" or whatever kind of silly argument you got? A few people spouting LFG (probably not even near you), a few people selling (probably not even near you), a few people trying to gather the few players that are on the map for a dolmen (probably not even near you).
And that's just PvE. Lets look at PvP shall we?
Take any battle, any battle at all with 50v50 and look at the chat bar. Oooooh how its positivly filled with people talking every 0.2 second with 50 letter sentences! Yeah... Look real close. No one is talking. A few maybe say LFG but they are surprisingly enough just like in the above PvE example probably nowhere near you.
I would be surprised if you saw even a single chat bubble in 10 minutes of gameplay in ESO.
Oh the shock and horror if people within 20m would actually talk to each other if/when ZOS implement speech bubbles. Imagine if this cant be turned off!
It would be like sitting at a crowded McDonalds and hearing what other people say at the table next to you! WHAT?! Completely unrealistic, that's like comic book world. Our modern realistic world is one where we only hear that annoying guy across town yelling "SANDWICHES FOR SALE, 1 DOLLAR EACH!" every god damn minute.
There was a fascinating discussion in zone chat the other day before I managed to turn it off. Several people were having a debate about what kind of human hair is best for using as menstrual pads. Along with sucking on tampons.
What conclusion was reached, I have no idea. I turned off zone chat as soon as I could.
I don't think I missed any socializing opportunity by not seeing that in chat bubbles, imo.
EDIT: spelling
Reldun wrote:Put the "chat bubbles" on the "pvp server". Problem solved and the rest of us can go on playing without ridiculous BS.
I simply can not understand the folks on the first page of this thread which are against chat bubbles.
And anyway, nobody said actual "bubbles". Didn't both LOTRO and freaking Skyrim (aka an Elder Scrolls game!) have speech equivalent to /say appear as overhead texts to resepctively other players / npcs ?
No, you probably didnt miss any socializing opportunity.There was a fascinating discussion in zone chat the other day before I managed to turn it off. Several people were having a debate about what kind of human hair is best for using as menstrual pads. Along with sucking on tampons.
What conclusion was reached, I have no idea. I turned off zone chat as soon as I could.
I don't think I missed any socializing opportunity by not seeing that in chat bubbles, imo.
EDIT: spelling
murklor007neb18_ESO wrote: »In other words, speech bubbles would have changed nothing for your particular experience.
In fact if speech bubbles where only active for /say, then your discussion showed more than what speech bubbles would show. Because if they had been using /say and talking crap, you could simply... walk away.
Good luck trying to walk away from a /zone discussion. Well, you can turn it off. Turning off the chat is obviously far more realistic and immersive than making your character walk away from the discussion.
Yeah...
I fail to see your point.
steveb16_ESO46 wrote: »I simply can not understand the folks on the first page of this thread which are against chat bubbles.
And anyway, nobody said actual "bubbles". Didn't both LOTRO and freaking Skyrim (aka an Elder Scrolls game!) have speech equivalent to /say appear as overhead texts to resepctively other players / npcs ?
Yes and they work fine. along with character names being displayed it's the basis of RP. They only display in a short range and they fade after a few seconds. You don't even notice them unless you're involved in the conversation or a person comes up and talks to you.
But heaven forbid this game caters to anyone else but the combat grinders.
Care to explain what you even mean? I have no idea what "/HUGS" is refering because it sure isnt an ESO emote.steveb16_ESO46 wrote: »"Heaven forbid" Combat Grinders get forced to look at even more junk on our screens due to "Fuzzy Unicorns /HUGS" . Again if it's optional then fine, but a lot of people don't want to see that crap on their screens, nor do we want resources wasted on /HUGS when there are actual game/class/quest/ability/VR problems that should take the priority.
No. I dont want some weird chat bubbles floating over my immersive UI. Theres a reason why players dont respond to your repeated hi's and hello's....
Theres a reason why players dont respond to your repeated hi's and hello's....