Wuk Lamat's Poor EN Voice Acting

[Vyrerus]

As has been said, and as has now been censored repeatedly by deletion, the voice over segments done in English for patch 6.55's introduction of the character Wuk Lamat were done very poorly.

The voice over work for the patch itself was rather lackluster all around, but Wuk Lamat's rendition was significantly lower in quality than every other VA in EN. This may have been exacerbated by expedited, remote recording conditions, but the fact remains.

I found myself switching to German for the duration of the patch, even though I do not speak it, in order to try and enjoy the character more. This was overall a degradation to the experience, since I could not enjoy the other English VAs that I am accustomed to hearing.

In the censored threads, other players who pay for and love this game echoed this same sentiment for a variety of reasons.

I have played and paid for this game for almost 11 years. I have played and paid for SE's first MMO, FFXI, since 2003. My feedback should matter, just as every other paying customer's feedback should. Feedback should not be subject to deletion, especially when it is genuine.

Please get the Voice Actor for Wuk Lamat training or improve on her performance in some discernible way. Or give us the option to switch out specific spoken characters.

As it stands, her direction in EN specifically comes off as an offensive caricature, does not match the character in other languages, and does not let us all enjoy the character in a similar way, negating the shared experience aspect that make MMOs great.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I've been paying for almost 14 years and I thought she was fine. I don't think length of time as a paying customer matters when it comes to how feedback should be received lol.


Also, I can say that most of the "feedback" in the previous two threads was not genuine.


I'd like to point out that we've learned that Erenville grew up with her, and yet I haven't seen a single person complain about them having an Icelandic? accent while being from the new world. Not one person.

[Nestama]

[Theodric]

I think there's enough time between now and the launch of Dawntrail to take constructive criticism on board and perhaps even arrange to re-record some of the current and future dialogue. I would not want that to come at the cost of a delay, though.

I generally prefer to play with English voice acting and dialogue, though I may very well just switch both to French if there are going to be persistent quality concerns with both the English localisation and voice acting.

At any rate, I do not think that deleting a thread outright is the correct response. If certain posts breach the forum's rules then those posts can be deleted and bans handed out if necessary. There's no need to nuke genuine, civil posts alongside the wayward ones.

[CVXIV]

Yeah, in the previous thread I had mentioned the voice sounded off to me and I wasn't sure why. I know other people raised complaints of it being inconsistent and flat so maybe that was it, but I am still unsure how to word it. I still like the character though and I am looking forward to spending more time with her and seeing where things go.

[Vyrerus]

I don't think length of time as a paying customer matters lol.

It's a shame you don't value your own time and money you've spent supporting your own, beloved hobby then. :/ weird flex, but ok.

Also, I don't think you can be a proper arbiter about what's genuine.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It's a shame you don't value your own time and money you've spent supporting your own, beloved hobby then. :/ weird flex, but ok.

Also, I don't think you can be a proper arbiter about what's genuine.

It's interesting you say I don't value my time and money when I'm clearly still enjoying the game, so I'm still getting the value I wanted. When that stops, then I'll have something to say. I don't find any issues with Wuk Lamat's VA. I'd also like to point out that with all of the hate Alphinaud's voice got and still gets, I have yet to see anyone attack his VA.





And attacking the VA personally is very much not genuine feedback.

[Heroman3003]

Nobody was censoring any feedback. If negative feedback war being censored, this forum would die in a week and only threads left would be the "Show your X" threads. The topics were removed due to rampant and blatant transphobia displayed in the discussion. Pretending like that's not the reason is making this thread seem just add disingenuous as the removed ones.

[DrForester]

I really enjoyed the voice work. I thought she was energetic and fun. Kind of reminded me of Hange and Sasha from Attack on Titan. Seems like an enjoyable companion for another adventure. Wuk Lamat and Erenville have a good double act going on, and I look forward to more.


As for the reason "criticism" is coming off as disingenuous is because people keep claiming that other voice work as been subpar but you don't see threads about that. Where the 17 page thread about G'raha Tia sounding tired and totally checked out this patch? Where's the threads about all the other voice work people are saying is subpar? Nowhere.

People are dog-piling on this one voice actress. I would ask why that is, but...

[Vyrerus]

Nobody was censoring any feedback. If negative feedback war being censored, this forum would die in a week and only threads left would be the "Show your X" threads. The topics were removed due to rampant and blatant transphobia displayed in the discussion. Pretending like that's not the reason is making this thread seem just add disingenuous as the removed ones.

The last thread was about 26 or so pages long before I got entangled with more work before I could be home for the day. As there was lots of people being trolls or spiteful, there was a lot of honest criticism and feedback, too. Is it really so hard to ban individuals, rather than destroy an entire discussion?