Why did they change all the voice actors?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Tatarus also sounds much more....women in 20s like..

I KNOW RIGHT!? I thought I was the only one who was going nuts wondering if her voice changed! A certain dragon and lady also had their voices changed. It's...jarring.

[sydh]

Yea... Some of these are not fitting to the images the 2.0 VA's gave to the characters. Alphinaud's is sorta ok but it was growing on me with the finishing of FCoB. Tataru feels off and almost too modern if that's a thing. Then Merlwyb's is just all wrong! Everything that made her is now gone... From the voiced perspective that is. An that's far as I have gotten so far.

I hope that they didn't change someone like Y'shtola. :/

Oh gods Ilbred's is so bad.

[MercuryD]

The Admiral lost her vocal bite....... Gah! This sucks.

[Frigidchick]

So I just saw the new launch trailer for Heavensward and noticed they changed the voice actors for all the main characters.

Why could they not keep the same voice actors I hate when they change voice actors like they do a lot in Anime..

The voice acting for this game sucked, hopefully they improved it.

[Frigidchick]

I like to play in English so no the problem isn't solved.

But those voices sucked. It's like that entire cast of FFXIV ARR got the script an hour before 'go time', and they were just winging it. The Ishgard general in the blue, and Merlwyb were the only ones who made an actual effort to be in character.

[Mideel]

What have they done?! Did they relocate to Yorkshire??

[Laraul]

With American cartoons the actors don't get anything, because, the industry as a whole, thinks they didn't do much, just lend a voice.

Each voice actor on "The Simpsons" gets $300,000 per episode. Movies such as the Pixar's "Inside Out" feature the voices of Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, and Lewis Black, all who are able to demand a $7+ figure salary for a single film.

The English voice acting is actually pretty good, IMO. Each character's voice adequately fits there persona, and they show a range of emotions. What I think people don't like is the some of the old english style dialog, long cinematic cutscenes where there's a lot of speech but not all that much is said to advance the plot, and just the tediousness of the cutscenes themselves.

Overall which is better? Japanese or English? That's a matter of opinion. But I'm going to guess that plenty of people ranting that the Japanese voice acting is so much better do so because they've seen a few dubbed anime with cheesy voice acting, and then assumed that's that the rule, not the exception, and made up their mind before giving the english voice overs a chance.

[CrystalRainbow]

The Voice actors they had sucked, and per professional Voice actors.

People want/demand more voice acting.
Change voice actors who cost less and more available for voice acting.

More voice acting.

[Nadirah]

That's not a bad thing. The majority of the voice acting in ARR is atrocious.

I prefer the English voice actors over every single character sounding female or like a child, which is the case of many Japanese actors to me.

If the men don't sound like women, they sound entirely too angry and don't fit the image of the character(Seriously, I tried watching DBZ once and couldn't stop laughing at Goku's voice) and all the women sound like they're 12.

Personal preferences vary.

[Nandalowell]

I like the new voices except.. I think they may have changed my character's.. Her voice itself is for the most part the same but she makes different sounds when firing her bow now; gonna take some getting used to.