Having your character talk during cutscenes

[Yowyow]

oh... lets look at other MMOs (ok the ONLY mmo to ever do this), they failed miserably after a year or so. I'm refering to Bioware's horrible SWTOR. The resources needed for this type of thing would take months upon months if not years. Its not as simple as plugging in some bum's voice into a character. its the cutscenes, the dialogue, the facial expressions, the models. Sorry for being Mr. Negative Nancy but dont ever expect this from SE for FF14.

[rina_inverse]

Sorry for being Mr. Negative Nancy but dont ever expect this from SE for FF14.

for any mmorpg in fact

[Venat]

oh... lets look at other MMOs (ok the ONLY mmo to ever do this), they failed miserably after a year or so. I'm refering to Bioware's horrible SWTOR. The resources needed for this type of thing would take months upon months if not years. Its not as simple as plugging in some bum's voice into a character. its the cutscenes, the dialogue, the facial expressions, the models. Sorry for being Mr. Negative Nancy but dont ever expect this from SE for FF14.

Not talking about voice acting. Just the dialogue.

[Einherei]

The only way i'd see this working in line with SE is the example from God Eater Burst.
It too is a game where the player character does not directly speak or say anything even in the voice acting segments when other characters speak. The main character only nods or does gesture similar to XI or XIV.

However at one point during the main climax when the stakes are high at the end point they shout out (with the same voice you chose for basic battle grunts/emotes) "Don't give up on living!" and charges in to help one of the main characters in the story, it really surprised me because i wasn't expecting it, it immediately made the last fight very memorable as it was a quote said earlier in the game - something similar where you could believe that's actually what your character would say at a climactic moment would be something great to experience in XIV if they ever did limit voice acting.