why not have all quests have a voice over?

[kaynide]

You can't really compare to Guildwars 2 as they utilize their budget in extremely different ways;

GW2, for example, is extremely limited in the music department and basically recycles their soundtrack from GW1. That's a huge amount of money saved. Don't get me wrong, it's a fine soundtrack if you're into canned Jeremy Soule (which again, is good, albeit very "background music for studying" vibe imho). They don't utilize a lot of mocap like SE does, they basically have nutcracker-jaw'd characters when they speak.

GW2 does a LOT of things right and deserve LOTS of praise for it, but they are very much apples and oranges to FFXIV.