Lack of voice acting is really hurting the emotion of the story

[ForteNightshade]

I can't choose my character's personality though. Regardless of what I want (to thank that character, to stop being closed minded to that character, hug that crying character or comfort them) my character will always be a brick wall of no emotion compared to a Scion.

This has been somewhat mitigated by giving us dialogue options. Sure, they are entirely superficial but they do let us give a little character to the WoL. My personal headcanon for my main is she's very sarcastic. The added options are a nice touch. Voice acting, on the other hand, may throw off said headcanon, especially given they will have to write our character a specific way. Putting that aside, the sheer logistics for a voice acted player character in a MMO would be insane. We're talking several millions of dollars allocated to a relatively small aspect—more if our character suddenly had additionally dialogue included. It just isn't realistic.

Even if it were feasible. I would be quite annoyed to see all that money going towards our player character speaking a few times in the MSQ in lieu of more actual content. Let's face it. The cost has to come from somewhere.

[CazzT]

There is definitely something wrong with people who have the opinion of "I don't want it, so you can't have it either."

This is not one of those cases, though.

Obviously if they added voice acting to the WoL, there would be an option to turn it off.

Highly doubtful, based on the fact that almost no other game with a voice protag offers this without using mods.

Therefor satisfying the desire to see lips moving without sound. But no.. the desire to have silence doesn't stop there. You all do not want people like Kiryoku, the OP, or myself to have it. Not just you, but we can't have it, period, end of discussion, screw what we want. I would say what I think about that if it didn't violate a dozen forum guidelines.

Again, it's not about not wanting you, or the OP, to have this. It's about what's right for the game.

Also another thing that doesn't make sense is for cutscenes to be half voiced and half silence. That never made sense to me, but again it seems many here are desiring us not to have something so disjointed for not even personal selfish reasons, but Malevolent ones. I can understand selfishness, or greed. But simply saying no to something that doesn't affect you in any capacity is wrong.

Having half the cutscenes voiced and the other half not is not ideal and no one is saying to not have them all voiced. That is entirely different discussion.

You say it doesn't affect us, but that's wrong, it does. Money would have to be diverted from the devs to VA, which would mean less content. No thank you. Plus, again, it's about what is right for the game, not what you want.

[Krystalmethot]

Personally I would say if they ever did decide they wanted to invest in doing the voice acting for our characters that they should also install a feature that allowed u to turn off your characters voice for those that don’t want it

[Kaethra]

You say it doesn't affect us, but that's wrong, it does. Money would have to be diverted from the devs to VA, which would mean less content.

Voice Actors don't code. They don't design.

But you knew that. So again its "I don't want it, so you can't have it."

[Gwenorai]

Voice Actors don't code. They don't design.

But you knew that. So again its "I don't want it, so you can't have it."

...Did you know SWTOR another MMO is fully voiced? And that it was officially released that actually most of their budget went into the VAs for every single story + the two sexes? That's a lot of lines, even if they kept reusing some of the lines to cut down on cost. But what you want is to have it so that every single line is voiced, for multiple races, in multiple languages for multiple VAs for the multiple voice options for male and females?

Note that SWTOR spent millions on this and they didn't have nearly as many options to pick from in regards to the voice options. During the last two years, they started added in none voiced options to aid with the budget.

You could probably have them redesign a lot of the races, add the missing genders and upgrade the CC for the amount of cash it would take to pay all of those people for their work.

With that in mind; how much time and money do you think will have to be sunk into this?

[HyoMinPark]

Voice Actors don't code. They don't design.

But you knew that. So again its "I don't want it, so you can't have it."

But they have to be paid for. Which means that the funds used to pay for them have to come from somewhere, and it’s likely that they would be pulled from funding other things—such as adding in new customization for races. Or adding in another dungeon. Or creating the next Ultimate.

But I’m sure you knew that.

[Kiryoku]

I really think you should edit your post and add a spoiler tag for this - just saying "Spoiler" in the middle of the sentence really doesn't work - especially in a thread about voice acting. (No mention of spoilers given)
I know something now that I did not know before.

Apologies, but its my first time on the forums and I don't see any spoiler tag button when writing my posts.

[Lunafreya]

The WoL having a voice would be so unrealistic so I respectfully disagree with this thread.

[HyoMinPark]

Apologies, but its my first time on the forums and I don't see any spoiler tag button when writing my posts.

For the future, you can add spoilers by using the [ hb ] <text> [ /hb ] tags (minus the spaces).

So then it will look like this.

[Amaterasu_]

I hope our own created character would never get a voice of their own.
Keep the character as a silent protagonist.
I already cannot stand some characters in the story just imagine that one of those characters would be the protagonist you created.
I would not stand the story anymore if my character has a personality not to my liking and this game is a heavy story based game.

In my opinion the protagonist does get cool moments without even having to talk.

I think SE made a wise decision to keep the protagonist silent.