DEVS: Don't waste time with voice acting.

[Jennestia]

The cost is trivial, and they don't need to copyright the same material every year, only the new material. copyrights are good for 80 years or more iirc. They are not understaffed, they're using as many people as they would benefit from. There comes a point were adding more people does not make development faster and instead just costs more.

Depends on the copyright and the country -- The US is 75 years.

They're not understaffed or underfunded but in every business there comes a point in time when you have to budget yourself properly which is why games of this generation are almost always lacking in one department, no matter how good the game is.

[elreed]

i dont get it how people is concerning about SE cost, its a big, huge company, that not only does this game, it has several offline games that sell a lot, you really should start asking for things that are concerned to us PLAYERS and leave bussiness to the bussiness man, as i said before i dont even care what they do to improve the game, GIVE IDEAS NOT EXCUSES leave those for Yoshi P.

[Zanfire]

take it like this...
If SE was worried about money they have to spend on VAs...this game would have been shut down a LONG time ago.

[Jennestia]

take it like this...
If SE was worried about money they have to spend on VAs...this game would have been shut down a LONG time ago.

There's a lot more to it than just that. Projects have their own set budget, they can't continually funnel money -- Especially for a company with multiple departments like Square.

SE clearly proven they're not afraid to take a hit, but there's a difference between taking a hit and just blowing your money away unnecessarily -- They still have a commitment to relaunch this game for PS3 and they even said it's being treated as a 2nd and final chance, this is why it wasn't shut down -- Any other company in this position would have shut the game down and sold it off long ago.

[Nahaara]

Agreed. Rewatch the games intro. They did a superb job.

If you're talking about the CGI intro I agree, in all honesty i'd love to see at least a short film about those 3 even though it's unlikely that it'd ever happen.

[Jennestia]

If you're talking about the CGI intro I agree, in all honesty i'd love to see at least a short film about those 3 even though it's unlikely that it'd ever happen.

If they wanted to. In FFXI they alluded to the intro's lead 2 characters and even retouched on their story in a later Add-on.

[Nahaara]

If they wanted to. In FFXI they alluded to the intro's lead 2 characters and even retouched on their story in a later Add-on.

True, but I won't get my hopes up about it.

[Zanfire]

There's a lot more to it than just that. Projects have their own set budget, they can't continually funnel money -- Especially for a company with multiple departments like Square.

SE clearly proven they're not afraid to take a hit, but there's a difference between taking a hit and just blowing your money away unnecessarily -- They still have a commitment to relaunch this game for PS3 and they even said it's being treated as a 2nd and final chance, this is why it wasn't shut down -- Any other company in this position would have shut the game down and sold it off long ago.

the whole point was that they clearly already thought about it, its already part of their plans and that money for VAs is clearly not so much that it would break the bank on the game. Its a tiny part of the whole rebooting he game process.

[Alerith]

Yes...voice acting must mean a game sucks in other aspects. Look at FFX. The graphics suffered because of....oh...wait....Well the storyline suffered because of...shoot...well the music...was good...the battle system...worked....

Screw a sensible argument. Voice acting makes games suck!

[Jynx]

Voice acting: A nice touch.

But I'd rathe see them spend time/money elsewhere at the time being. Personally I hope 2.0 comes with a wicked awesome opening movie much like XI did.