OUR VOICE

[Callinon]

Has there ever been an MMO with a voiced player character? Genuine question, never played or otherwise investigated enough to know. I would expect the broader character customization gets, the less likely voice acting becomes.

Star Wars: The Old Republic had fully voiced PCs. One for each class and gender. So the female Chiss agent sounded exactly like the female Human agent. Still that's 16 voice actors reading thousands of hours of lines to cover everything the PC needed to say out loud.

[HyoMinPark]

Please hire a general voice actor for male and female player characters its been years we waited everyone agrees its about time we stop nodding and start talking its not so hard to get 1 male 1 female per race and have them read lines the game is surely profitable enough. if a game like swtor can give us a voice then i see no reason a mega giant like square enix cant .

I'm not sure I would like this. I have a very good idea of what my character would sound like - I don't want her to have a random voice that may not even fit my own mental image of her.

[Gula]

I'm not sure I would like this. I have a very good idea of what my character would sound like - I don't want her to have a random voice that may not even fit my own mental image of her.

Or the inevitable English accent. I like to think my WoL is a proud Ameriburger thank you.

[Katro]

Has there ever been an MMO with a voiced player character? Genuine question, never played or otherwise investigated enough to know. I would expect the broader character customization gets, the less likely voice acting becomes.

Guild wars 2 had voice for pc for each race / gender swtor also had voice for pc as well

[Lambdafish]

Star Wars: The Old Republic had fully voiced PCs. One for each class and gender. So the female Chiss agent sounded exactly like the female Human agent. Still that's 16 voice actors reading thousands of hours of lines to cover everything the PC needed to say out loud.

And if I remember correctly, that feature was a huge spend from the budget. I'd rather the XIV team focus the budget on other areas. This game has excellent characters, voice acting and story, it doesn't need a significant budget spent on making the PC talk within that

[Doozer]

Please no. I really don't think Generic British Guy #8 would sound at all like my character should sound.

EDIT: The only compromise I would accept is if I could have whoever voiced Ilberd. No alternatives.

[Misutoraru]

Star Wars the old republic is the rare one that have VA for your own character, but it is quite different situation. They have 2 fractions with 4 main classes in each side. No matter which race you pick you going through the same story line with some alternate path but all race share the same voice as long as they are in the same class. Some might disagree but I found SWTOR have way higher standard of BA than FFXIV have provide.

[Misutoraru]

SWTOR is made by BioWare and it is hugely main story focus MMO so I guess they should have the high standard VA, while FFXIV I don’t think they are as strong as SWTOR on how “chose your own path” in main story and I have to say FFXIV VA is quite poorly perform, I think they should priorities getting better VA for MSQ and spending on other stuff and giving VA for our character

[Gula]

Please no. I really don't think Generic British Guy #8 would sound at all like my character should sound.

EDIT: The only compromise I would accept is if I could have whoever voiced Ilberd. No alternatives.

Instead of nodding your character says, "SLOPPEH"

[Callinon]

And if I remember correctly, that feature was a huge spend from the budget. I'd rather the XIV team focus the budget on other areas. This game has excellent characters, voice acting and story, it doesn't need a significant budget spent on making the PC talk within that

It was, yeah. Their budget was enormous and most of it went to this. It's why there are no separate class storylines for any of their expansions.

Personally I don't especially care about voice acting for my character. There's no possibility it'd sound like my character sounds in my head regardless. It'd be Generic English Guy #659 and who needs that.

Frankly, while we're at it can we talk about how people from literally different continents have the exact same accents as each other? Eorzea and Doma are quite far apart from each other with different cultures... why do they all sound like they're from London?