Why did they change all the voice actors?

[Laerune]

Not really confirmed, just that the new voice in the trailer is most likely Alphinaud, as in the Japanese trailer it's Alphinaud speaking that line.

The twitter part is just that someone asked if SE changed Alphinaud's voice actor, to which he responded he had no idea. If he was recast, it makes me sad that even Sam didn't know about it.

I checked his twitter, I can not find it. Could you please link it for me?

[Highwilds]

I'll keep JP voices. I like how Japanese sounds and their voices fits better to the characters. Nanamo is like a little girl, sounds like one too, when Lolorito is like a grumpy old man. But anyway, the main thing for me is that the English voices speak too slow and it makes me feel like I'm a person who doesn't understand it if I they talk faster... o_o

[Warlyx]

Merlwyb's voice actor change made me sad. I mean "Seven hells!"

lol ,the actress was swallowed by the sea! D:

[BreathlessTao]

I can relate, I hate random voice changes too. :| That said, I'll be sticking to JP voices, so no such unpleasantness for me (for now anyway).

On a sidenote, am I the only one wishing SE would add a language marker (like [JP] or some such) to their YT video titles? @_@ Boggles my mind every time I try to watch something and...nope...not this...it ain't the one....not this either...oh that's it! @_@

[FallenArisen0990]

Ugh, I really hate voice acting in games cuz it's always the same non-sense... JP voicing is just as bad as EN. Just pick a voice type (or no voices aka mute) and just leave it be. Tired of the JP voices are better and EN are crap because it's the same thing from a different perspective.

[SuzakuCMX]

The EN voice acting was pretty awful until about 2.4. Then it got pretty good (IMO about as good as the JP voices). The 2.55 cutscenes in particular are where you can really notice how good the EN voices are.

I don't mind the change because some voices (like Papalymo and Alphinaud) were a little awkward. Minfilia was bland pre-2.55 but in the feast cutscenes her voice is actually pretty good.

What annoys me more than the voices ever did is the weird olde-English dialogue. It usually sounds forced and unnatural, and a lot of times is obscures some details because I'm trying too hard to figure out why they don't use contractions or start using contrived language to say something simple.

[zaviermhigo]

A little off topic I know but . . .

Maybe they got better voice actors :/ I mean I do use JP VA, but that's cause some of those are my faves from anime. IF they hired the same EN VA's that do DCAU and Marvel Animated movies, or maybe the EN VA that do video games, this would be a great game, but they got the same bad english anime voice actors I haven't been able to stand for years :[. Here's hoping they got better ones.
That being said the English (british? I'm american so. . . I think british is UK and english is just england right?) VA's like from England (or scotland or whereever) were pretty good, some of the others are just so Inuyasha English dub :/

I'm more of a Voice actor fan in general, of all languages if I happen to watch something in that language or play etc. So for me, this wasn't about English vs Japanese (I also speak french, french Va's were pretty good imo), it was more about the JP VA's were definitely A listers in their VA world, and the english ones were not :/ (some were, and I like those, but some are just awful).

TLDR: Not a full on weaboo, just wish the EN VAs were higher quality, we have good VAs in the US and UK and yet SE uses some bad english dub anime VAs :/ heres hoping the new VAs are better. They did have to deal with lots of feedback on forums over lack of quality in EN VAs. They probably thought, if we change some, maybe people will use it.

Side note: As of now JPs actually use the English VAs a lot which is funny, maybe the changes came from that? Who knows.

For those saying its the same, its not the same. Japan has more of a history of "dubbing" than we do, so they have better voice actors, just like Germany and France have better VAs then we do. Its not about quantity, its about quality, in Germany, France and Japan they often dub US movies over, thus creating work for that. Some anime VAs are also the official VA for an American actor when they dub his movie in JP (i know DE and FR does it too). We have GREAT voice actors in America, they are in Bioware games, they are in Marvel animated and DC animated movies, SE DOES NOT USE THEM, they use the same bland emotionless VAs from 90s anime we all didn't like. "BY GOSH GOKU!"

[matteoxyz]

The English voice acting was terrible. I hate to say something nasty but it really was awful. I switched to Japanese and later French and the difference is incredible. I prefer English as well but French is close enough for me.

[Zeonx]

I think its a good thing.
Maybe he was a boy maturing into a man and his voice has got deeper.

Only explanation I have and sounds like a pretty good one.

[Keyln]

As far as I know, they sound the same to me. A bit hard to tell with only one line and with the music blaring like that.