lack of voice acting killing game

[stodanko]

it is not that hard to add voice acting. i got a big suggestion if you think paying people to do the voice acting is expensive. HOLD A CONTEST. pay them nothing but a subscription and you will have plenty of people to do the voice overs.nothing like doing the 1 quest that even gets voice overs and bam in the middle of them talking they stop and force you to read the dialog instead...horrible. you could even use a voice synthesizer to tweak those voices into more. i would gladly read dialog for you to implement in the game as voice overs.as i told you in phase 3 beta . no one will read the dialog. they end up skipping the wonderful cut-scenes you added to the game. without out voice you basically shot yourself in the foot.

[Ruethryl]

Voice acting didn't save SWTOR. :x

[Yoohre_WildRiver]

Voice acting didn't save SWTOR. :x

ohhhhhh SNAAAAAAP!

+1

[PureEclipse]

Voice acting didn't save SWTOR. :x

I think this should be the very first thing to come to anyone's mind the moment voice acting is mentioned... Lets spend a few million on voice acting and let people spacebar through the material....

I have the Japanese voice over going, A its better, B it helps me keep a little bit of my 4 years of living there knowledge intact...what little we do get of course in the game.

The English VO reminds me of cryptic studios VO work, shoddy and bland, reading a script without even knowing the characters background/look/purpose its AWESOME...

[Jayrune]

I have to disagree with this assessment, the game is doing just fine and dandy without 100% voice overs. I daresay poor voice acting everywhere would be detrimental to the games longevity.

[TohruHonda]

It's not killing anything.

[SkyeWindbinder]

[RyuujinZERO]

It's not killing anything.

According to MMO forums everything is killing the game - They should put a filter on forum posts, if it detects the phrase "...is killing the game", it automaticlly bins the post.

[AlexNiculaie]

Hasn't seemed to bother anyone in our Company, so seems a spurious claim at best.

[TehWhiteMage]

Oh God, they're forcing me to read something to understand what this story is about!



But wait, haven't all JRPGs had speech bubbles of text? If people don't care about the story, listening to voice actors isn't going to make them stop skipping the dialogue.