Voice overs potentially ToRs downfall?

Which is something this game does not facilitate. More than 20 and it becomes a lag fest. I think he was trying to indicate that if they spent the money on core development and not on voice overs, the results would have been an MMO, and not a single player online RPG.

true,
even gw2 has its own class voice,
but i dont really need all sub quests are all voice over,
we just need class story has voice,

but again, this downfall is because of EA , and the game engine.

I'm with you =) love the voices and really missed it during the last event when my poor little JK was silent the whole time. If they stopped having voices, I would find it much less enjoyable.

i skip through most cutscenes so i dont care much about voice overs. thus potentially making voice overs the downfall of swtor because much less ppl care about them than you think - and creating a new class with so many dialogues will be impossible for them lol

I agree with both you and the OP.

The fact that the voiceovers make it harder to add levels, does indeed make the expansions more expensive. But that is a problem for long-term planning.

It's not the reason why most people left the game already. They got more problems with short-term fidelity that should be adressed. But those problems aren't being adressed at all.

Voiceovers are a nice bonus, yes. But not the reason why people play a MMO.

For me having a voice for my character is important, I wouldn't enjoy the game as much if everyone was as quiet as in those other MMOs

FULL voice-over is what defines this MMO. And honestly I can't even imagine a modern game without full voice-over. If they ever decide NOT to voice-Over some conversations or side quests, it will just become another WoW... in space. I'm really tired of having to read all those lame text boxes, if i want to enjoy the story.
If I wanted to read the story I'd go get a book, or play Old-School Fallout again or something...

I disagree.

I believe that the class stories, and the way they are played out with voice acting and dialogue choices, is a feature that is helping SWTOR retain a large amount of subscriptions.

I'm here because of the story and especially the voice overs, if that ends, me and A LOT more people will quit.
Remove that and not even F2P will be able to save this game. TOR will just be another generic Sci-Fi MMO out there.

No voice overs are one of the great things about this game to me, and the great class stories, strip away everything and we have a copy and past mmo like every other mmo out there with a different skin, We have a great Themepark but after you ride the rides a few times the park gets old, scripted content can only go so far.

Whats killing this game and all thempark mmo's is the lack of diverse game play, nothing to do between content updates, daily's and pvp can only get you so far.

Our toons need to feel like they live in the world and not just playing though it, we need elements of sandbox play and anyother type of game play that might fit, things to do outside combat, some free flowing dynamic player driven content anyting to open up the world.

I think going f2p is not addessing the main issues people are leaving this game, just adding more war zones and op's is not new content it is more of what we already have, I wonder how long the f2p players will last until they get bored. New to mmo's players will love the game but us veterans that have played since the days of eq the new formula for making mmo's is not all that new we have seen it since the late 90's../sigh