Dear Square Enix,

[Maeka]

@Trunks: Well, you can turn it back to English, because... well, spoilers I guess. But you know what I mean.

[Sigma-Astra]

It would be a nice thing if it was added in, but, it's not a gamebreaker for me. I expect that sort of thing in a single player RPG as more of a necessity, but not for an MMO. The VA has gotten significantly better since ARR and I think that's a large step in the right direction already.

Honestly though, reading a few lines of text here and there though isn't that detrimental towards one's enjoyment of the game, in my opinion. It seems kind of nitpicky and a personal pet peeve than an impacting factor that holds the game back.

[LeoLupinos]

To be honest, they don't have enough money. Voice actors cost a LOT of money, and the time it would take to dub EVERYTHING would cost an extortionate amount and time. If you want to wait extra months for each patch then sure, but it'd overall receive more complaints.

Soory, but this is inaccurate. There are plenty of voice actors worldwide, SE does not need to hide the most expencive ones.

[Sigma-Astra]

Soory, but this is inaccurate. There are plenty of voice actors worldwide, SE does not need to hide the most expencive ones.

It depends, not every cheap voice actor is "quality" work, but the same can be said for the most expensive ones as well. It's a hit or miss that sometimes, even the least well known, ends up being the better choice. However, it is true that most of the popular voice actors that people use, the ones that you see showing up repeatedly in anime and tv shows, are usually expensive to hire and rightly so, they're the most experienced.

Experienced voice actors usually a demand a higher compensation than the amateur ones, especially if they need to work XIV in their existing schedules.

[DBriggs304]

Eh.

While nice, it's a complete waste of time and money to do that. Please don't.

[ElHeggunte]

Solution to all of this:
Only voice everything in japanese and give us subtitles. That way you don't have to hire english, french and german voice actors. Yotsuyu in english sounds so bad. it's like a completely different person/villain.

If you thought the complaints about Japanese favoritism were bad now...

[KageTokage]

I'd rather they invest the money into something more important, like better servers or even the most basic sort of client security to prevent cheating.

[KeresThanatoio]

Id rather they got rid of all the filler quest. I don't really need to run to 20 locations for 6 lines of text each.

[Iscah]

I actually turned all the voices off. It was accidental in the first place (I just wanted to mute my character's battle grunts, and discovered I'd muted the cutscenes as well) but I find it more enjoyable to read and imagine the characters' voices than listen to the varying-quality voice actors speak the lines, or alternate between voiced and non-voiced scenes. Sometimes it doesn't work so well, but a few times I've tried turning the voices back on and I never leave it that way for long.

[Ilyrian]

Id rather they got rid of all the filler quest. I don't really need to run to 20 locations for 6 lines of text each.

Strong same. It's super irritating when all I want to do is play the new content. Actually just in general.