Graha Voice Actor Change?

[peachsyder]

As a matter of pure curiosity on my part, have we ever been aware of how long before release, on average, are patches recorded?

I vaguely remember something about Bakool Ja Ja's VA celebrating his character's return a full patch before he actually had any voiced lines, which makes me assume at least 4 months or so? Though, of course, it may be that not every VA gets to record in the same timeframe as they'll have different schedules and availability and not every patch might follow the same timeframe, but I'm curious all the same.

(Also, does anyone remember when it was that they patched Wuk Lamat's Interphos voice lines? If I'm not mistaken that was also when they patched the lines Y'shtola had in 7.0 that had some pretty noticeable sound quality issues due to the actress' personal circumstances at the time.)

[paradisea]

As a matter of pure curiosity on my part, have we ever been aware of how long before release, on average, are patches recorded?

I vaguely remember something about Bakool Ja Ja's VA celebrating his character's return a full patch before he actually had any voiced lines, which makes me assume at least 4 months or so? Though, of course, it may be that not every VA gets to record in the same timeframe as they'll have different schedules and availability and not every patch might follow the same timeframe, but I'm curious all the same.

See, this is what gets me. "Wicked press tour" is the reason most people keep saying Bailey might not have been able to record for 7.4, but... that was early to mid November. Surely they recorded 7.4 before this?

The other dates I could see schedule conflicting is the Jurassic World press tour, which was throughout mid to late June. But surely there was a time through July, August, September or October where they could have scheduled Bailey for, I don't know, a day? I doubt G'raha will have enough lines in 7.4-7.58 combined to warrant much studio time.

Then again, this is all just speculation. I can only hope that he has some yet unrevealed project that maybe kept him busy through the latter half of this year, and not that he has decided to leave the game or that Square Enix is pulling a Troy Baker on him for whatever reason.

I'm just... sad. My hype for the game is kind of dead over this (yeah yeah I care that much, don't really care nor wanna hear what you think about me because of it), and the harassment over caring about this recast was kind of the biggest blow of it all, to be honest.

Not really expecting to hear from SE at all at this point. I think the best scenario at this point is Bailey just returning for 7.5 and them pretending like all of this just didn't happen, but I don't know how feasible that is. NA Fanfest should be around the time 7.5 will drop, can we even hope to hear anything about it then? If they do those character introduction slides for the characters that will be prominent in the next expansion, and that includes G'raha, will he have a little footnote saying who is his voice actor?

So many questions and it all just feels like copium.

A belated happy Starlight to all of you. Let us hope for better news in the new year.