What's with the lack of voiceovers in the continuation of the main story

[KoujiGeki]

because they probably guess the game wont last to much longer and dont wanna pour money into voice acting. lol or just cause they know most people skip por ignore the cut scene anyways.

[Cons]

They could have put this to the fans who would have done it for free, especially one time only characters in the storyline.

Could have made it a competition and the best that were recorded would be implemented after signing a waver to say that it is for free and contribution based only.

[Seif]

Considering the VA has to be done in multiple languages and requires the plot to stick to certain characters and it also involves the international licencing fees for the tracks I'd say I prefer them to spend that money on just better cutscenes as a whole rather than try to voice them.

The japanese track is okay but I'd feel more comfortable if I knew the english VA's lost their jobs for all that cringe-worthy posing they did. It's weird to say this but even XIII had better actors.

[Dark-Saviour]

I'd feel more comfortable if I knew the english VA's lost their jobs for all that cringe-worthy posing they did. It's weird to say this but even XIII had better actors.

Yda's English voice was great. :-(

[Magis]

The japanese track is okay but I'd feel more comfortable if I knew the english VA's lost their jobs for all that cringe-worthy posing they did. It's weird to say this but even XIII had better actors.

WTF happened with the VAing? They had the same voice actors for 1.0 and it wasn't nearly as bad!

http://youtu.be/t2ahpI7XvlU?t=2m17s (Yda and Popolino)

http://youtu.be/WwrX6exd1jk?t=3m2s (Y'shtola)

They all sound like they are proclaiming something to their subjects now, especially Minfilia.

It's obvious they can do way better, but something went wrong with the last recordings.

[Leomoon]

Yda's English voice was great. :-(

I've herd all the voice actors the Japanese sounds really lazy to me the English ones sound with more effort, not to mention Yda is awesome!

[Starvald]

The general dubbing sounds as if the staff asked some distant relatives for help who needed some money and who have absolutely no idea how dubbing works. So in my opinion...i am perfectly fine with no more voice over in the game.
There are exceptions of course.....

[LoLo]

I knew they wouldn't keep that up. Seems every aspect of this game is lacking for me. But I'm still playing hoping the game will improve from just a Duty que lobby.

[Xatsh]

Put the money into something actually important like content.

Voice overs are great the first time... then they are done. So all that money for 1 play through. Not really a good investment in a mmo in my opinion.

[frostmagemari]

Put the money into something actually important like content.

Voice overs are great the first time... then they are done. So all that money for 1 play through. Not really a good investment in a mmo in my opinion.

You realize that's not quite how things work in this system, right?

The Devs most likely work on salary, and the only way money will -ever- get us more content is if they hire more staff and bloat the design teams, but even in that there's only so much work that can be split between the design teams, so there's effectively a 'cap' on how much money you can put into your development teams and expect to get something worthwhile out of them. There are some things that can't be worked on at the same time.

After the staff has been paid, the 'excess' money can however be poured into better servers, voice-over work and other things before they bank the rest of it as profit; They're not really doing that though, as we still have poor servers and next to no voice-work (or sub-par voice work).