Dear Square Enix,

[Darkoray1]

This thread is full of a lot of excuses. Could they do it? yes they could. Would it have its problems? yes it would but nothing they cant work around. Don't throw out the "its expensive crap either" they made $2.5 billion last year so as the OP stated, they ain't short of money. I personally have no issue with the way it is but enough with the excuses.

[Neophyte]

This thread is full of a lot of excuses. Could they do it? yes they could. Would it have its problems? yes it would but nothing they cant work around. Don't throw out the "its expensive crap either" they made $2.5 billion last year so as the OP stated, they ain't short of money. I personally have no issue with the way it is but enough with the excuses.

The operating income of all Square Enix MMOs is about 127,5 Mio. US-Dollar and that mostly because of releases like the FF14 Expansion, but also Dragon Quest and stuff.
Last year (without such releases) it was about 70 Mio. US-Dollar.

In what world do they make 2,5 Billion Us-Dollar with FF14?!

That's almost 14 million people subbing 12 months non-stop for 15 bucks.


Fortnite, generates maybe about 2,5 Mrd. Us-Dollar income a year (currently 250 Mio. $ a month?!)... you know.. Fortnite, the game everyone talks about because they make more money than anyone ever before. I wonder if Epic's players crunsh numbers to evaluate how much Epic "owes" them.

Nintendo made >55 Mrd. US-Dollar income with Pokemon so far... do they owe me a voiced version now, finally?

[Sigma-Astra]

This thread is full of a lot of excuses. Could they do it? yes they could. Would it have its problems? yes it would but nothing they cant work around. Don't throw out the "its expensive crap either" they made $2.5 billion last year so as the OP stated, they ain't short of money. I personally have no issue with the way it is but enough with the excuses.

I didn't think rational thought were considered excuses. I mean, can you cite where you saw that they made $2.5 billion last year? Do you have access to SE's financial and fiscal reports that the rest of us don't know about? Whether or not the company makes enough money isn't exactly relative towards whether or not they could nor want to hire VA's for full-time since at best, everyone is speculating about how much the company makes without having any concrete facts to show for it.

Just because a company seems to make a lot money, doesn't mean they're using said finances effectively or that they can splurge on every single idea the playerbase comes up with.

Just my two cents. /shrugs

[Zeldert-Castiel]

This thread is full of a lot of excuses. Could they do it? yes they could. Would it have its problems? yes it would but nothing they cant work around. Don't throw out the "its expensive crap either" they made $2.5 billion last year so as the OP stated, they ain't short of money. I personally have no issue with the way it is but enough with the excuses.

So you mean they had to spend EVERYTHING on FFXIV?

[Usho]

If we are waiting for months to get a major patch with main story content, I think the scenes should be all voice acted. Players should get their money's worth and should not settle for piss poor corner cutting. They make a lot of money from this apparent "Cash Cow" so they should have the funds for that, unless their claim about having over "10 Million Subscribed Players" is just a lie. Right now, imo , the quality of the patches are really lacking. 4.3's story was good, but lack of more voice acting is really bad and constantly reading text gets really annoying if I'm paying monthly for a modern mmo. Reading is fundamental, but straining my eyes to read a wall of text from characters is not fundamental. Just saiyan.




P.S: By defending their current flow, you people enable SE to keep their status quo of corner cutting with content quality. Think about that.



/2 cents

[Sigma-Astra]

Reading is fundamental, but straining my eyes to read a wall of text from characters is not fundamental. Just saiyan.

If you're straining your eyes from reading text on a screen then either you've been playing for way too long or your screen is too small, in which case you might need reading glasses. That ain't any companies fault really. There's also a feature to blow the text up. If you need every line read out to you, I'd consider that pure laziness honestly.

Then again, most of the playerbase already doesn't read their tooltips.

[Kurando]

P.S: By defending their current flow, you people enable SE to keep their status quo of corner cutting with content quality. Think about that.

If the majority of players prefer the status quo then there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, and you are wrong for trying putting them down for choosing that. Your thoughts on content isn't the only one in the world, think about that.

[shao32]

More that more voiced acted scene they should Focus on expand the languages at the game is showed, many spanish and italian ppl play It too, even if are only subtitles and skills description with one of the already voice acting are in game Will make tons of ppl Happy.

[Maero]

People have to also realize large portion of sub money goes to SE other projects, just a small portion goes back into FFXIV.
Mog Station itself for example the money goes to pay the artists that create that content.

[Anselmet]

While I think that having more voiced scenes would be great, I think we would all benefit more if they put more motion in scenes. Or have our characters maybe touch another character. I know this last one is rather difficult with all the height differences but it'd be a nice touch to maybe pat Alphinaud on the head when he's being a good boy or something basic (or a yank on his clothing if you're a lala which come on that would be adorable). In short I want our scenes to be a little more dynamic. I mean they are getting better but I feel they could push it a little more and its more feasible than voice acting.

Also I like seeing characters say my avatar's name. If everything was voiced then that would be lost =/