why not have all quests have a voice over?

[Iplewhelmed]

Consider the fact that we get to name our character, and that almost all non-voiced scenes refer to you by your character's name. If they voiced ALL dialogue, they would never be able to refer to you by name but would have to say she/her/WoL/"hey you" which would get extremely tedious to write around. Not only that, but it would also dampen a lot of the relationships we build with the npcs, like if one of the twins say "thank you for saving me there, John" it acknowledges you as a person, whereas if they said "thank you for saving me there, Warrior of Light" it comes across as much more formal and distant.

[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.

[White_Wolf_X]

but the msq do.

They called "Main Story Quest" for a reason.

[GrizzlyTank]

Voice acting takes time, translation and space on disks. Whilst it is true that some games are near enough 100% voice acted they limit themselves in that way in being able to deliver content simply because it will need to be voice acted, translated and so on. Plain text still needs to be translated but you do not then need to employ voice actors and studios to record it so content can be produced quicker.

Keep the voice acting to set parts I say and text for the rest so we can ensure content keeps on flowing.

Pretty much. Voice acting is also unfortunately one of the most storage demanding features a game can have.

[GrizzlyTank]

They called "Main Story Quest" for a reason.

The S actually means Scenario!

*pushes glasses*

[SamsaraTrickstar]

Consider the fact that we get to name our character, and that almost all non-voiced scenes refer to you by your character's name. If they voiced ALL dialogue, they would never be able to refer to you by name but would have to say she/her/WoL/"hey you" which would get extremely tedious to write around. Not only that, but it would also dampen a lot of the relationships we build with the npcs, like if one of the twins say "thank you for saving me there, John" it acknowledges you as a person, whereas if they said "thank you for saving me there, Warrior of Light" it comes across as much more formal and distant.

how its a problem. all the games do it. clearly they will not create a naming algorithm .

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.

you can on the fact that GW2 don't make any wear near as much cash as ff14. people bring the cash problem and its just to show. one more game that dont do as much as ff14 is ESO but can do voice overs. not i don't need any small thing to be voiced but msq.

[Lunalepsy]

really why only some got it, its getting annoying when there lots of text dump and may be 2 sentences are even relevant to the plot. why not at last voice all the msq? this is by far the most financially successful mmo, it clearly can do it. even games like gw2 can and they make maybe 25% of what ff14 is .
what you think of this?

Because it is expensive?

[Kes13a]

why people act as if this a small game the cant reach even 50k players?

why are you acting like money grows on trees and they are not given a budget they have to follow.

its not just voice acting in English.

the game is available in Many languages, soi, you pay actors, you pay the translators to put it intio whatever language, then you need QA that understands the language, so make it fit in the given space and not make it seem like the voice acting is going on and on... you seem to be glossing over a ton of costly variables because its magical money raining from the sky.

Sure, SE has money, no doubt, yes, FFxiv does well for them, but in what world would the part that does FFxiv get all the money it makes. zero business unit works that way. they get a budget.. they have to work within that budget, plain and simple.

[Izar_Chillen]

Cost will be the biggest factor.

SE would need to hire VAs of both sexes for each language that the game is written in, the cost climbs to the many hundreds of thousands of dollars or more.

Bioware put themselves in a corner by doing 100% VA work for SWTOR and because it was expected every expansion and its subscriber count dwindled each year they now make pathetically small expansions every 3+ years because its just too damn expensive . Many of the great British VAs ( performance artists as they like to be referred as) you hear in games come from Theatre / BBC television stock and are part of unions that grant them great salaries inc post release bonuses.

[SamsaraTrickstar]

SE would need to hire VAs of both sexes for each language that the game is written in? like they do now? so the same one do more (and get payed more).
why am i acting like money grows on trees? i don't i act as if we paying for this game. problem is the bigger it gets we don't see SE invest more in to it.