Strife Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Chat bubbles please!! The lack of them makes things very frustrating for me as a roleplayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubacca Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Where are our chat bubbles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SawneyRath Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 I'm still holding out hope that Chat Bubbles will be in the next patch. And if not, then the one after... And so on until they actually are here. Â I just hope we don't have to wait a year... two years... 3 years in order to get them.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glzmo Posted April 21, 2012 Author Share Posted April 21, 2012 Now that GUI customization is out of the door, make sure to ask about chat bubbles in the Official Q&A threads again. Damion Schubert said in his previous Q&A response that they will have an ETA for chat bubbles after GUI customization is live - the time is now. So make sure to ask as many questions about chat bubbles and the ETA for them as possible to raise awareness of the developers! Here is the next thread to post questions in: Official Q&A Thread for April 27th, 2012 Q&A Blog Post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briangiles Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Singed - please add it - when people do /s to me i hardly ever notice it until its too late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeadonismyMaster Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 It has been a killer for most RP - If its not your thing, fine, but chat bubbles help that interaction so much. How many things are they going to push to 1.3? I love the game, but I changed to a month - month sub. They need to show some action on some of the big fails for me to stay.  Rift had bubbles, 6 man groups, big WZ, big open world pvp etc on launch. Plus a UI you could move. The game was not as good, so dont get me wrong, but it had it atleast. I would say those are :(base features TOR/BW/EA have not delivered on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glzmo Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 (edited) It has been a killer for most RP - If its not your thing, fine, but chat bubbles help that interaction so much. How many things are they going to push to 1.3?You are right. The lack of chat bubbles has alienated a lot of roleplayers and socializers from the game already. Many have left - although many of them said they will give it another shot once chat bubbles are here. Having the developers talk only about PVP most of the time and not talking about RP features much if at all doesn't help either. I really hope all the other things being delayed won't delay chat bubbles any further and we will see them in 1.3 at latest. They are so sorely needed. Edited April 26, 2012 by Glzmo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SawneyRath Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Bump for Chat Bubbles. Lets not forget about them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moroder Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 I hate the way this has not been mentioned yet. PvP be damned let me RP. I really dont care about levels or gear, I want to use my imagination with like minded players. I really need chat bubbles for this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drebs Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 I left the game back in February with the stipulation that I'd be back once there were chat bubbles. Well, I came back regardless, but still have no hope of getting my RP on without this feature. You simply cannot have a decent face-to-face conversation without them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jhayden Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 i really miss chat bubbles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glzmo Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) Everyone that cares about chat bubbles should post questions asking about chat bubbles in 1.3 in the latest Official Q&A Thread for May 4th, 2012 Q&A Blog Post. The more questions about chat bubbles they get, the harder it is for them to ignore them. Edited April 28, 2012 by Glzmo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubacca Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 So in case anybody from Bioware reads this: Will chat bubbles be in 1.3? If not, why not? What's the current target ETA for them? It can't be so hard to give us an ETA, they give ETA on all kinds of other things after all. And they said at the guild summit they fixed the performance problem with chat bubbles. So what's the holdup? Roleplayers and social players are leaving the game every day because there still are no chat bubbles! Why alienate this important and usually loyal group of players by not even giving them the bare minimum tools to enjoy their playstyle?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SawneyRath Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 I posted the question in the Q&A for the week. I really hope that we get bubbles soon! It would just make life a little easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moroder Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 I ll post a question as well. Like I have said before it really is starting to effect my enjoyment of the game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjwrock Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 (edited) Just wanted to bump this yet again. Swtor has been my first mmorpg. I recently tried another mmo that had chat bubbles. It was pretty cool. Probably my favorite feature of that game, as compared to swotor. Â I would really like to see these implemented, as I am in an RP guild on an RP server. Â Fingers crossed over here. Edited May 2, 2012 by Rjwrock misspell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glzmo Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 (edited) The developers have just posted a UI Feedback Request, where they ask which UI features we want next. Since chat bubbles are a UI feature, we should all go to the UI Feedback Request thread and post that they should add chat bubbles there, so they won't be foregone in favor of other UI features yet again. We must make our voices heard, otherwise there is a chance that we won't see chat bubbles for a very long time! Edited May 3, 2012 by Glzmo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glzmo Posted May 5, 2012 Author Share Posted May 5, 2012 (edited) A new Question thread for next week's Q&A is up! Make sure to ask for chat bubbles once again, since they didn't answer the questions about them in this week's Q&A Blog! Official Q&A Thread for May 11th, 2012 Q&A Blog Post Due to their silence on the topic, I fear they put chat bubbles on the backburner once again and only YOU can make your voice heard and remind them that we, the players want chat bubbles to be added ASAP! Edited May 5, 2012 by Glzmo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubacca Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Still no news and ETA about chat bubbles? What's going on, Bioware? You promised we were getting them once the Interface Editor was in the game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thraze Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 As a roleplayer, this would be an invaluable addition to the game. Â Good thread, I hope BioWare listens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SawneyRath Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 I posted in both of those forums about Chat Bubbles. Lets hope we get some information soon. I could really use them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deewe Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Still no news and ETA about chat bubbles? What's going on, Bioware? You promised we were getting them once the Interface Editor was in the game! There's an official reason for that: chat bubbles are killing the frame rate. ........Do the following test: don't move and check your FPS. Then open an close multiple UI frames one after the other FAST, observe... and cry. For example in some areas I have 100+ FPS and I'm able to drop to 5 FPS doing so. As long as the UI will eat FPS like that we won't have chat bubbles as each chat bubble is a separate UI frame. P.S.: We won't either have UI mods too as long as the UI isn't fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubacca Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 (edited) There's an official reason for that: chat bubbles are killing the frame rate. ........Do the following test: don't move and check your FPS. Then open an close multiple UI frames one after the other FAST, observe... and cry. For example in some areas I have 100+ FPS and I'm able to drop to 5 FPS doing so. As long as the UI will eat FPS like that we won't have chat bubbles as each chat bubble is a separate UI frame. P.S.: We won't either have UI mods too as long as the UI isn't fixed.They said at the community summit that the performance issues with chat bubbles have been fixed, so there should be no reason not to include them in one of the next patches. Besides that, I'm not seeing the FPS drops you're talking about. Sure, 2D overlays always generate a a performance hit (not just in this game, but in all 3D games in general), but on my system the hit isn't bad (granted, it's a powerful system). As long as chat bubbles are an option (means everyone can turn them on/off on their client at their leisure), people can choose to keep high performance without chat bubbles or the comfort of chat bubbles with a performance hit (if they added in a toggle keybind it would be even better, so people could quickly toggle them on/off depending on the situation, too). I sure would accept a performance hit over not having chat bubbles at all, as chat bubbles are integral for my playstyle (social roleplayer) and without them, I simply can't enjoy the game (imagine what PVPers would think if PVP in this game was limited to one-on-one duels only - that's how roleplayers/socializers feel without chat bubbles and other "stanard" RP and social tools!) and I will quit once my subscription runs out in case chat bubbles aren't in the game by then. And I know many, many people that feel the same way. Edited May 6, 2012 by Stubacca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risl Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Yes to chat bubbles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deewe Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 (edited) They said at the community summit that the performance issues with chat bubbles have been fixed, so there should be no reason not to include them in one of the next patches. Besides that, I'm not seeing the FPS drops you're talking about. Sure, 2D overlays always generate a a performance hit (not just in this game, but in all 3D games in general), but on my system the hit isn't bad (granted, it's a powerful system).. Thanks for the highlight, I missed that. Then for the UI test I can really go from 100+ FPS to 5. Open an close different UI frames really fast and notice the drop. And before anybody says so, while it's not a logic to hit the UI like a mad this doesn't happen in all others MMO I play.  For now it seems TOR UI is indeed hindering the engine performance. Rest assured they are working diligently on that. The only real question being when? Edited May 7, 2012 by Deewe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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