I will actually agree with you Samsara.

The MSQ is my favorite part of FFXIV, I just love the story. The voice acting makes it so much better and immersive. If they did voice acting on MSQ alone, I'd be happy. I have a lot of friends who have told me they "can't get into the story" because they end up just mass clicking through the walls of text instead of reading them, and only watch the voice acted cutscenes.

GW2 does an excellent job with their voice acting, and has to have even more actors, since the player even talks in their cutscenes. That's 10 different instances of reading the same lines (5 races male/female). And I'll argue that FFXIV is much more story driven than GW2. It only makes sense to invest in the voice acting for it, at least for the important quests. Every time a cutscene pops up that isn't voiced, I'll read it, but I still feel a twinge of disappointment.

Many of those voice actors can do multiple voices, so could just reuse them to voice minor characters in the MSQ as well. Wouldn't be that hard to do.