Voice acting

[Dragonhand]

Hi players or simple curious ppl.

First of all, I dont care if what I'm about to say has been said once twice or a milion times, it is not in front page nor in the upcoming changes.

Due to the extention of the story depth and the way it is such an important part of the game, the current voice acting is, imo, inssuficient. As one of the companies in the gaming industry that has been always on the inovation side, having 2 or 3 voice acts is very poor, and for that it should be expanded to ALL PLOT QUESTS.

Apart from gameplay these is one of the things that will make players that didn't knew ffxi surprised and pleased, saying "I dont have these in wow, nor Ill have in tera. Looks very different and interesting." Wasn't that the point the many diferences betwen ffxiv and ffxi? No need to ruin a name such as Final Fantasy to attract new players with strange and non functional systems, you only need simple and interesting things that help in the players to feel inside the game and for me these is one of the most important things. For some reason ff has a lot of voice act in every important PLOT situation on the offline games, or was the investment made on the release of FF-X and the games that came after only a waste of some sort?
The things that sell final fantasy series are Story plot and immersion.

[Jinrya-Geki]

I am happy they atleast put subtitles in the cutscenes. I can't even hear the voices.

[Zenaku]

I am happy they atleast put subtitles in the cutscenes. I can't even hear the voices.

the opening Ul'dah is just lame i can't even understand what the guy all i can is the song.

I do agree we need more voice over.

[Eruantien]

I definatly agree on this, seems poor especially when SE mentioned a long time ago that the game would be well voice acted

[weeble]

yeah horrible back b4 launch they said there was alot or all voice overs then they said it was a translation thing, seriously this game should of had lots of voice over, and the city should be filled with npc's that talk. it's the second ff mmo, they should of been stepping up way harder with immersions and making missions and quests badass. at this point they are worse then it's predecessor.

also i'll like to add se needs to *** off with it's translation issues and start adding videos for there games like other mmo's do when they want to show off there upcomming new mmo's. this hole translation as excuse is not cutting it. and all there talk has been proven to be cheap.

[Anty]

looking at the great voice acting in witcher 2 (its no mmo i know but you could fill 20times the CS ffxiv offers by now with it, or even more) it really does a huge part adding to immersion. Like Dragonhand said... why did they do that to their latest ff offline games and didnt do it to ffxiv at all (i know there is like 1 or 2 words mumbled but thats about it).
FFXIV so far feels like the easy cheap way of getting a lot of money ... too bad we have a market with lotsa competition and
all these excuses don't work since even small companies do better and faster... Some even manage to get a decent game on the market within a year... SE dindt even manage to get the few basics (which should have been here at launch) goin after 9 months retail....

I think voice acting is like looooow priority to them or they "put it into consideration" like they do with 99% of the complaints.

[Mushy]

I would be satisfied with just main story having voice acting, i dont want to hear everyone talk, though in cities it would be cool to have people call out to u but they went with the icon above the head for quests which is good too

a similar feature could be like in XII, where regular npc's with no face icon above their head just has chat bubble and the heads have voice acting(It could be shown differently in UI) but something similar to that so they can work in voice acting slowly

[Shaubapu]

I would LOVE to see every cut-scene have voice acting. I'm not talking about an instance with NPCs but the full on cut-scenes. It was a great treat to hear voices in the opening scenes but is always a let down now when I see a beautiful cut-scene and no voice.

It's not the most important thing right now I know but when the after summer goal chart comes out I would like to see adding voice to all cut-scenes on it. I don't see it happening though until SE is actually making money on the game.

[Zenaku]

I would LOVE to see every cut-scene have voice acting. I'm not talking about an instance with NPCs but the full on cut-scenes. It was a great treat to hear voices in the opening scenes but is always a let down now when I see a beautiful cut-scene and no voice.

It's not the most important thing right now I know but when the after summer goal chart comes out I would like to see adding voice to all cut-scenes on it. I don't see it happening though until SE is actually making money on the game.

I feel the ifrit one should have been voice over they said the main plot -.- that more of the main plot then mission 15 or any of the other voice over one. Most of the voice over one are less of a plot then the one that are not voice over.

SE need to make main storyline 100% voice-over.

[Alaltus]

They definitely need to sit down with their voice actors and get them to do a whole lot more than they've done so far. Having every npc voiced might be more than they could handle but i say its always worth a shot im sure alot of people would appreciate it atleast.