Poll: Who reads all of the quest text, main scenario only, voice acting only, or none

[Sagittarian]

I've read everything except the actual daily quest bits. I watched all the main ones for the beast tribes but I always skip through the dialogue for picking up daily quests.

The people who don't read are really missing out in my opinion. The writing in this game is actually quite good.

Ditto. Everything except the dailies.

And we recognized the Tam-tara people immediately. I was very happy when they added the ability for NPCs to recognize they had dealt with you before and update their dialogue appropriately.

[KarstenS]

Ditto. Everything except the dailies.

Same here.

The story is one of the most central parts in every Final Fantasy game.

[RyujinUzikin]

I only care about the voice acting ones.

I'm not going to claim I know the difficulty around making most things voice animated, since they need to pay voice actors to do the job, but the fact that most of the scenarios in this game have no voice, it makes me feel like it's lazy. So if they're lazy to add voice to the story, I'm lazy to read it as well.

Some of the things I take from WoW for example is how NPC's have voice, even if it's just a phrase, it sticks with you.

"anu belore dela'na"

It becomes nostalgia afterwards, I have no nostalgia about walls of text on the screen :/

[givemeraptors]

I only care about the voice acting ones.

I'm not going to claim I know the difficulty around making most things voice animated, since they need to pay voice actors to do the job, but the fact that most of the scenarios in this game have no voice, it makes me feel like it's lazy. So if they're lazy to add voice to the story, I'm lazy to read it as well.

...wow.

First of all, it's actually an immense amount of work to add in voice acting and it's done months in advance (I believe Yoshi said all the voiced parts for 2.4 were finished ~2 months ago). There's nothing "lazy" about it. It's time-consuming, needs to be planned out well in advance, and costs a decent chunk of money.

On a sidenote, your blind assumption about a process you know nothing about is really immature.

[RyujinUzikin]

...wow.

First of all, it's actually an immense amount of work to add in voice acting and it's done months in advance (I believe Yoshi said all the voiced parts for 2.4 were finished ~2 months ago). There's nothing "lazy" about it. It's time-consuming, needs to be planned out well in advance, and costs a decent chunk of money.

On a sidenote, your blind assumption about a process you know nothing about is really immature.

I just want to get my money's worth, considering this is not a freebie game. In truth I say they weren't that confident this re-release of 14 was going to be a success, so they didn't make a sandbox world, they didn't add that much voice acting. They went the cheap way in and they know it.

If it's immature to point out the differences of this game vs other games then so be it.

[Amused]

They went the cheap way in and they know it.

Yeah, I'm sure you know how and where they decided to allocate resources.

It's kinda funny that you say you want to get your money's worth but then go on to skip part a large part of the content.

Voice acting is expensive. It's even more expensive when you need to get voice actors for every language that is supported, as well. Personally, I couldn't care less if this game had no voice acting at all. It gives the writers a lot more freedom to go all out.

[Exstal]

I just want to get my money's worth, considering this is not a freebie game.

＄１２～１５　is pretty damn cheap. That's a theatre movie every month that only lasts up to 4 hours.

[Canadane]

I read everything. This includes things such as dailies and levequests.
I love the story and want to get the most of it. Lore can be found everywhere!

[Mayh]

Back in the beta and in the beginning I read ALL of the text and listened to everything, but those times are over. The NPC's use way too many sentences most of the time, and I get annoyed waiting for their emotes to finish so I can keep clicking through it all. Especially beast quests. ლ(ಠ益ಠ)ლ

[Cigaran]

Put me down for 'All the quest text.'