Voice overs potentially ToRs downfall?

I agree with your statement but... I think it would have kept alot more and still kept what it had IF

They limited the voice/cutscene/choices to Class Story and World Arcs. Left it out of the side quests. Put the resources from the sidequests into other areas of the game.

The premise of my OP, wasnt necessarily if the story should have been cut out. It was more of a ... is it still going to be able to do that in the future. So far it seems as if its not going to be able to. Look at the new dailies they added and the world events. No story like we seen in the past. The new dailies are all from a terminal. Because its cheaper and faster to produce. People will get pretty dissapointed if it goes that direction. There are already people craving for Chapter 4. Chapter 4 isnt even comming with Makeb and its level cap increase. That is more proof that it may be going the wayside.

I have investment in Star Wars, and KotOR, I'm hoping my continued funding will aid them in fixing it.

Im not trying to bash the game at all but ... way to be a good community member and talk down to me.

Made no... tentatively planned ... maybe. If content was made for the next 5 years, which would be impossible, then they would have released a portion of it to keep the subscribers happy.

What, in this game, cost them ~200 million dollars.

I wouldnt want them to copy Rift. If they produced the quantity and quality of Rifts post realease content... then yeah, id be ecstatic.

Another fine community member. Have anything to add to the discussion or are you just Trollin?

I think I should have Titled this thread different. It seems people want to read the title and not really understand the gist of my post.

Im not saying VO killed ToR. Im saying if they would have cut back on it somewhat then they would have had resources to allocate elsewhere. I dont think many players would miss much of the side quest voice overs. Those are mostly garbage and repeated ad nausium IMO.

Im also saying that it might kill them in the future because of the cost to do so and the time it takes to do so. When you dont have the funds or the time or the staff... its not easy to come out with the same quality that people expect. We have already seen the cutback of the quality of work. New dailies are fully terminal. Makeb has no chapter 4 even though it is getting a level cap increase. Because of the quality that people now expect, they are going to be butthurt if they dont continue to get it. Because BW is hampered in funding and lost some staff... they cant produce that same quality.... atleast not for long periods of time between.... like yearly.

If I wanted to hear the story I'd get something for my Kindle. I'm sorry that reading is so hard for so many people these days.
I play without sound and the only thing the cutscenes do is give affection and light/dark side points. The quest areas are marked on the map so you don't need to pay attention to generic voice #23 to figure out where the bandits he wants me to kill are.

BTW, the game is another WoW with or without voice-acting bloating the size of the game.

Really? You think the few minutes of class story each planet is keeping players slogging through the hours of repetitive 'collect 10 womp rat butts' that they have to grind through to be able to do those few new class missions?