Wuk's VA being so hostile to players and other voice actors is frustrating.

Wuk's English VA has been controversial at best due to the performance in DT.

I've never advocated for someone to attack a VA over their performance, that's childish. But taking a look at their Twitter makes it really just not look great on Square. They actively argue with players, have called out other VAs for voicing characters that they don't like, and just antagonizing more replies from players in general. Hell, their Bio alone is them saying they'll block people just for having an icon on their name.

I'm not saying they should get fired, but holy shit this is new levels of unprofessional and childish. Please, have a talk with them. DT has already been a mixed reception at best; do we really need a VA out there going after players as well?

I don't know why I'm bothering, but I'm literally scrolling through her "with replies" tab right now and I'm not seeing any arguing with anyone whatsoever. The closest she comes is defending herself against people who say she's not Latina. The rest is just retweets, stream announcements, and chatting with people like a normal person.

Nothing wrong with blocking people who give money to Elon Musk, btw.

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Originally Posted by WhiteDragon

Wuk's English VA has been controversial at best due to the performance in DT.

I've never advocated for someone to attack a VA over their performance, that's childish. But taking a look at their Twitter makes it really just not look great on Square. They actively argue with players, have called out other VAs for voicing characters that they don't like, and just antagonizing more replies from players in general. Hell, their Bio alone is them saying they'll block people just for having an icon on their name.

I'm not saying they should get fired, but holy shit this is new levels of unprofessional and childish. Please, have a talk with them. DT has already been a mixed reception at best; do we really need a VA out there going after players as well?

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Why you lying?

Her pronouns are she/her.

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Originally Posted by PorxiesRCute

Nothing wrong with blocking people who give money to Elon Musk, btw.

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For real? No matter what one thinks of him, thats just childish and unprofessional...


...first time looking at it, its funny how it says "Voice Actor." followed up by "she" lol make up your mind xD

I have been playing this game with Japanese audio since ARR and the censorship of Haurchefaunt.
I suggest everyone else to as well.

Her actions on twitter are representative of herself and nobody else. You don't have to like her, but her actions as herself only have an impact on herself. Additionally, her blocking Twitter Premium users is her choice to define what she wants her internet experience to be and who she wants to interact with her.

Additionally, any "attacking" she's doing is primarily towards players that are disrespecting her because they don't like Wuk Lamat, and even that is in defending herself.

Twitter is dog water anyway. Who cares about what anyone says on that Musk-fueled waste of bandwidth anyway?

Compared to other VAs, her voice doesn't suit the character at all, unlike the Japanese VA.
I have switched to Japanese audio -even though i understand barely some words- for this expansion. But it saddens me that i like the scions VAs in English a lot.
I did find some clashing in English dialog and Japanese audio -they not 100% the same-.

I do hope that SE doesn't pick problematic people to voice their characters in English, after all, what's more important? quality of the voice acting or just picking people because of representation without caring about anything else?

There are tons of people with good voice acting skills out there who are also looking for representation too.

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Originally Posted by WhiteDragon

Wuk's English VA has been controversial at best due to the performance in DT.

I've never advocated for someone to attack a VA over their performance, that's childish. But taking a look at their Twitter makes it really just not look great on Square. They actively argue with players, have called out other VAs for voicing characters that they don't like, and just antagonizing more replies from players in general. Hell, their Bio alone is them saying they'll block people just for having an icon on their name.

I'm not saying they should get fired, but holy shit this is new levels of unprofessional and childish. Please, have a talk with them. DT has already been a mixed reception at best; do we really need a VA out there going after players as well?

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Is there a specific reason you're going out of your way to use incorrect pronouns?

just play it with Japanese voiceover. it's a much better experience and the voiceovers sound lovely.

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Is there a specific reason you're going out of your way to use incorrect pronouns?

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I may be an old gay and it may be malicious. But I use gender neutral pronouns all the time when I'm speaking regardless of who I am speaking about and none of my friends, trans, cis or otherwise find it offensive or as a form of misgendering. While it could be, things like they are not always malicious. I would think if you were going to be malicious OP would have been using he/him instead, which is what the transphobes tend to do. But idk, gender neutral pronouns are not usually seen as purposeful misgendering. It's just how some of us speak, including plenty of trans ppl.

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For real? No matter what one thinks of him, thats just childish and unprofessional...


...first time looking at it, its funny how it says "Voice Actor." followed up by "she" lol make up your mind xD

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English uses the term "voice actor" regardless of gender. Nothing inconsistent there.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

I have been playing this game with Japanese audio since ARR and the censorship of Haurchefaunt.
I suggest everyone else to as well.

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Not everyone likes the JP voiceover, though. I find it to be very animie-esque and overacted. I also really, really dislike a lot of female characters having very high pitched voices. I think the English dub is, generally speaking, fine. There are VAs who did a spectacular job - I thik Luke Allen-Gale did amazing as Zenos, no matter what you think of the character, for example. The rest of them are adequate. Not gonna win any awards but also nothing to complain about.

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...first time looking at it, its funny how it says "Voice Actor." followed up by "she" lol make up your mind xD

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The later creation of a female-gendered term does not necessitate that the original, broader term be strictly male-gendered.

Most female voice actors likewise use the term "voice actor". Just as do males. And anyone otherwise, both, or in between. Unless the work itself differs significantly between the socially acceptable form of an occupation for one gender and that of its nearest analog for another, English has seen little reason to maintain separate terms.

Therefore: "lawyer", not typically "lawyeress"; "aviator", not typically "aviatrix"; "brewer", not typically "brewster"; "mailman" or "mailperson" (if only because the doublet might be too hard for some to resist a chuckle over), not "mailwoman". Etc., etc.

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Originally Posted by PercibelTheren

Not everyone likes the JP voiceover, though. I find it to be very anime-esque and overacted. I also really, really dislike a lot of female characters having very high pitched voices. I think the English dub is, generally speaking, fine. There are VAs who did a spectacular job - I thik Luke Allen-Gale did amazing as Zenos, no matter what you think of the character, for example. The rest of them are adequate. Not gonna win any awards but also nothing to complain about.

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Same. I do fine playing on the JPN or ENG clients and with either voice and will typically do a full playthrough of each across my characters, but on JPN the dialogue style often felt oddly... flat (straightforward almost to the point feeling a bit... unimaginative) while some of the voices did, as you said, feel overacted (yet in oddly generic ways). There are a few I prefer in Japanese and a rare couple I found a tad annoying (though sometimes just to character) in ENG, but overall both are fine and on the whole I may even lean faintly, faintly towards English being the more interesting dub, even if not always with the best recording quality or consistency (early ENG dubs especially).

https://i.imgur.com/vOBzovf.jpeg

I leave this here with no further comment or commentary.

EDIT: Actually, you know what? Commentary.

This is unacceptable. This is unacceptable from a PR standpoint, from a professional standpoint, and from a personal standpoint. She is blatantly attacking swathes of the community, and for what? Twitter likes?

This is unacceptable conduct, full stop.

Who uses Twitter?

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Originally Posted by Canadane

I have been playing this game with Japanese audio since ARR and the censorship of Haurchefaunt.
I suggest everyone else to as well.

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I find canon Haurchefant is actually charming and funny, but EN version of him to be uncanny and creepy.

But I've been playing with JP voiceover since starting. EN just doesn't sound right for a JRPG.

What is this twitter thing everyone is talking about?

I thought there is only X.:D

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Originally Posted by protocarbuncle

Her actions on twitter are representative of herself and nobody else. You don't have to like her, but her actions as herself only have an impact on herself. Additionally, her blocking Twitter Premium users is her choice to define what she wants her internet experience to be and who she wants to interact with her.

Additionally, any "attacking" she's doing is primarily towards players that are disrespecting her because they don't like Wuk Lamat, and even that is in defending herself.

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beside of insult people who dont liked smile or her performance. I dont mind to be called things but if i pay for a product i dont want be called things from a member of the company i pay

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Originally Posted by BigBoom550

https://i.imgur.com/vOBzovf.jpeg

I leave this here with no further comment or commentary.

EDIT: Actually, you know what? Commentary.

This is unacceptable. This is unacceptable from a PR standpoint, from a professional standpoint, and from a personal standpoint. She is blatantly attacking swathes of the community, and for what? Twitter likes?

This is unacceptable conduct, full stop.

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I'm not going to comment on this beyond saying that I really don't feel 'Smile' is "Black Gospel Music" and feel that it's the sort of comment someone who only has a rather vague awareness of that music genre would say.

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Originally Posted by BigBoom550

https://i.imgur.com/vOBzovf.jpeg

I leave this here with no further comment or commentary.

EDIT: Actually, you know what? Commentary.

This is unacceptable. This is unacceptable from a PR standpoint, from a professional standpoint, and from a personal standpoint. She is blatantly attacking swathes of the community, and for what? Twitter likes?

This is unacceptable conduct, full stop.

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Dear god, she really needs to stop.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

I have been playing this game with Japanese audio since ARR and the censorship of Haurchefaunt.
I suggest everyone else to as well.

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I like and want to support some of the good English VAs like G'raha, Thancred's VAs and some others. I also don't like playing certain games in Japanese. For games like the Like a Dragon series I always do, because it's (normally) in Japan and I can't hear them otherwise. For XIV it's simply because I'm used to hearing these British voices.

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Originally Posted by ApolloGenX

Who uses Twitter?

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I use Twitter (f*** you Elon it's Twitter) because there's some actual gems of memes in the garbage pile from time to time.

Also at this point it's kinda like watching a trainwreck happen and I don't want to miss a second of it.