[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[Raven2014]

You know ... it's possible that it could be as simple as a money thing.

Looking at the usual cast of FF14, most of them have a star-tuck list of professional achievements. Think a few of them are involved in opera and one is even a actual singer? I doubt those talents come cheap. Anyone here played Baldur's Gate III? Even if one doesnt like the story or gameplay, but no one can say the Voice Acting of BG3 is anything less than world class. I think Larian did admit it did cost them an arm and a leg to hire all those VOs, but the CEO wouldn't have it any other way and the result spoke for itself. Like, seriously, you look at the VO credit of BG3 and you thought they were hiring for a Hollywood mega project.

We know the graphic update didn't come cheap, and there were rumor there were some friction between Yoshi and the board because the server upgrades he asked for cost so freaking much. It's quite possibles it leads to a budget compromise that opened the door for the the English director to make a point about getting a less than ideal candidate. WL's VO would have to be a completely new hire, and giving the absurd large amount of lines she, has couple with her status as the main character in a FF's tittle, a seasonal/well-proven candidate wouldn't come cheap. Like ... if someone like Laura Bailey knew she's casting for the main character with the most numerous lines ... I bet her agency would ask for a premium. On the other hand ... given such a role to a less than well-know candidate who are eager to jump at the chance getting such a big role ... that would give SE a lot more bargaining power wouldn't it?


So who know, just another point to think about beside the ... usual speculation and conspiracy. But I hope at least most people can agree whatever reason behind this particular hiring ... the reason wasn't due to competency or merit.

[BabySneed]

What does "sneed" mean exactly? I've never heard the term before.

The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Feed and Seed".

[Boblawblah]

The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Feed and Seed".

Chucks F..ah. I see.

Apparently it also means special needs, or a way of insulting a 'soy boy', or 'cope and seeth'. Young people today eh?

[Maltothoris]

They're just not that great of an actor, especially when it came to the more emotional bits.

[BigBoom550]

Setting aside all discussion of the bits between your legs, the VA just isn't very good. Whether or not you put that on the VA or the VA Director, the fact of the matter is that they were given an enormous number of lines- more than any central character has had in the game- well and truly before the VA had the skills to pull that off. That's on the VA for taking the job, the casting director, the VA Director- everyone. There's a huge top-to-bottom chain of failures here, and that needs to be pointed out.

[Tullius]

Setting aside all discussion of the bits between your legs, the VA just isn't very good. Whether or not you put that on the VA or the VA Director, the fact of the matter is that they were given an enormous number of lines- more than any central character has had in the game- well and truly before the VA had the skills to pull that off. That's on the VA for taking the job, the casting director, the VA Director- everyone. There's a huge top-to-bottom chain of failures here, and that needs to be pointed out.

This particular instance serves as a sort of early warning signal of an issue the vast majority of players don't want anywhere near this game, because they've seen the effect it had on titles that have also suffered this affliction. You are right, though, because the overarching issue ultimately started during conceptualization of Wuk. It's like a ship that started off on the wrong course. Nobody bothered to correct it at any point.

[WeakestZenosEnjoyer]

Can we please discuss the bad voice acting and not if a transgender woman counts as a woman or not. These are FFXIV forums not Twitter.

[Kurique]

A question on my part though, because all these LGBTQ+ stuff is confusing as heck, people can race swap now IRL right? Because in 2016 she said she was White, but now she's Latina. Is that like normalized now? Can you actually put that on like your health information and what not now?

I'm going to take a shot at answering the race part of this.

Race, like most things in life, is fairly easy when it is a singular thing. If I'm wearing a shirt that's pink, and a person asks me what color my shirt is, I answer pink. Easy peasy. If the shirt I'm wearing is multiple colors, or falls between colors, or looks like a different color under a certain light, how do you answer this question? You could give context; write a page response every time it comes up. You could pick the option that is relevant to whatever you are doing at the time.

To show the difficulty in practice, I am a mix of three races, with all 4 of my grandparents being of different ethnicities. One of those ethnicities is considered white (My grandmother was Italian.), but she had darker skin. Most people who are not black would say that I'm black, while almost all black people know that I'm mixed. On a form, where I can sometimes only pick a single option, what's the correct answer?

I've always said that I'm black when I'm tired; when it's too much work to correct someone.

Historically, there have been ethnicities that have switched races many times, since race is a societal construct. (So are ethnicities.) Mexicans have ping ponged back and forth on government forms since the inception of the two countries. Native Americans are such a diverse people, only connected by their oppression. The people of Mena are connected by an export. Society chooses where to draw the arbitrary lines and they constantly change in both large and subtle ways. There will always be people that don't fit within any system because we are trying to compress a complex idea of genetics, culture, and environment and reduce it to a handful of words on a checklist where nuisance is not welcome.

Long story short, go with whatever someone says and if it becomes confusing ask them about it if they are receptive or research the answer for yourself.

[Mortex]

Can we please discuss the bad voice acting and not if a transgender woman counts as a woman or not. These are FFXIV forums not Twitter.

I mean there isn’t really much to say anymore. I’m pretty sure a blank piece of wood would have be a better voice casting choice for wuk then whatever we have now. At least the wood would not make me wanna pierce my eardrums with a metal rod. But in the light of this post I have to be careful if I miss gender the wood my opinion.

[Mortex]

Is invalid. Sry on the phone and too lazy to restart my pc just for a edit.