How can an AAA title like FF 14 lack voice acting in 90% of the quests?

You pay for not only the initial cost which is $60 but you also have to pay a subscription fee which is $13. On top of that because the retainer spaces are so limited to fully play the game you actually also need to pay at least 2 retainers each month which is $4. So over six months, you're paying $102+$60, which is $182.

Now $182 is basically equal to three the Last of Us II. But TLoU 2 has voice acting everywhere and even the menu has voice acting. Sadly while the story of this game is entertaining I always have to lower my eyeballs to read the text and I can't look at the characters' facial expressions and follow the dialogue at the same time which ruins my immersion. Has Square Enix considered investing more into voice acting? A story game should have voice acting. This isn't 1990.

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Originally Posted by RagingStallion

You pay for not only the initial cost which is $60 but you also have to pay a subscription fee which is $13. On top of that because the retainer spaces are so limited to fully play the game you actually also need to pay at least 2 retainers each month which is $4. So over six months, you're paying $102+$60, which is $182.

Now $182 is basically equal to three the Last of Us II. But TLoU 2 has voice acting everywhere and even the menu has voice acting. Sadly while the story of this game is entertaining I always have to lower my eyeballs to read the text and I can't look at the characters' facial expressions and follow the dialogue at the same time which ruins my immersion. Has Square Enix considered investing more into voice acting? A story game should have voice acting. This isn't 1990.

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To be fair, a single expansion has WAY more content in it than Last of Us 2. FF14 as a whole is about 4 or 5 games' worth of stuff.

And they do have hardware overhead to worry about, as well as be continually paying a dev team that brings us new patches. I'd love for there to be more voice acting, but I feel like we'd end up with less quests overall.

Also, you do not *have* to buy additional retainers. I've been on since launch and never felt the need to get 1 till a few months ago. And that's just my hoarding finally getting the better of me.

Something, something budgets.

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Originally Posted by Alleluia

To be fair, a single expansion has WAY more content in it than Last of Us 2. FF14 as a whole is about 4 or 5 games' worth of stuff.

Also, you do not *have* to buy additional retainers. I've been on since launch and never felt the need to get 1 till a few months ago. And that's just my hoarding finally getting the better of me.

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But it's also 4 or 5 times more expensive so why is there so little voice acting? I don't need famous actors like Game of Thrones actors for the voice acting. I'm fine with regular voice acting. Why can't they just let fans voice act random NPCs? I'm sure a lot of people on the forums are willing to voice act for free to have their voices in the game.

i wish all quests, even sidequests had voice overs, it would make it feel less tiresome, like in ESO.

no VA is better than bad VA

Is there a single day where the OP doesn't create some kind of bait thread?

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Originally Posted by Absurdity

Is there a single day where the OP doesn't create some kind of bait thread?

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(I am eagerly anticipating the next thread each day...)

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Originally Posted by RagingStallion

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SWTOR had all voice acting and the content took FOREVERR. You do understand they need to translate everything for dozens of languages right? Also since you put up some numbers the amount of cut scenes in FF14 with voice acting add up to multiple movies worth of content that easily exceeds the cost you just listed.

I feel I may have crossed over to the dark side as I'm starting to agree with a lot of his base points. Some of the additional reasoning that's added I don't always agree with, but are people really shooting down more VA just because it's a RagingStallion thread?