why not have all quests have a voice over?

[SamsaraTrickstar]

The reason is Cost and Work load primarily.

They could spend the money on Voice Overs on everything, or they can allocate the budget and time to other areas of development. Voice overs cost a fortune, yea ffxiv could afford it with the subs and players they have, but they choose to invest the funds in other ways.

i think you mistake how this works. its different people that do the voice overs not the devs them self.so time if not the problem here.as for cost this game can do it, as games that dont even do 15% of what ff14 do can.

I'd wager the time investment might be a bigger hurdle than the cost. Dev team works hard to stick to their planned schedule. Adding voices to everything would surely mean stretching that schedule out, meaning less content over time. The added value of voice acting doesn't outweigh the cost of changing their development cycle.

then just do it for the msq, don't do it for the filler things.