My suggestion (TLDR): Have a “User Choice” option in the Chat Type dropdown of any place that allows users turn on/off bubble chat via their in game settings.
Long Explanation: When I play a game, I like to read the chat, but get caught up in the game and end up not reading chat unless the game has bubble chat enabled. I’ve heard of many developers disabling bubble chat because it “gets in the way of your view”, but most games that disable bubble chat wouldn’t be messed up if bubble chat was enabled, and if a user is fine with having part of their view blocked, they should be able to have the choice if they want bubble chat or not.
Why not add just API that toggles bubble chat (if there’s already one, I don’t remember) or make custom bubble chat that players can disable? I see your point but I don’t feel like this is applicable as a “User Choice” setting, it’s more along the lines of Reseting - of which we originally asked for a site setting but was better as a scriptable option.
Howdy! I’m going to be supportive and bumping this topic as it would be kind of beneficial for most games and for the users’ comfort on many games as choosing a certain style of chat for a game isn’t very great for some users and developers.
Anyway, having a “User Choice” selection for users on the engine would be something I would definitely add and use for many games or play with these types of settings on any game I play. A “User Choice” option is somewhat feasible into the engine but since it has been 3 ~ 4 years, things for the chat have changed and settings for it aren’t the same, especially how Bubble Chat was disabled from the client for all developers.
^ The OAO (Original Account Owner) can go to the profile settings and choose to either have bubble or classic chat set so if the game is User Choice, then he/she can have either bubble or classic chat.
Has been like 3 years, but it has been a couple of times if I recall correctly on many models and resources on the forums/platform which seems beneficial, but having to create a custom bubble chat/classic chat or script something out might take a while and for projects who are moving fast, something like this would be great to have.
