I've been playing SWTOR since it first came out, but only now started doing some RP. And it sucks that we don't have chat bubbles, as I had back when I was playing WoW (I assume they still have them).
It takes away a bit of the fun not being able to see the chat directly from chat bubbles, making me have to look both at the action and also the chat when doing RP.
Hope they implement this, although if they haven't so far I doubt they will now.