Voice overs potentially ToRs downfall?

Well thing about that part is that easy entry of dialog options tends to be built into the toolset they made for building the game.

Dialog options are probably fairly easy to make at this point for them. Hopefully they've also streamlined a lot of the body animations used while talking. The most difficult part that I can see for them now is matching the mouth to the words. That I can see them having to do new work for each time.

That being said, I don't actually know how they built their toolset. If its similar to the Dragonage toolset, and they continuously streamline it(which is probably how they were able to fix all those problems from beta, I doubt they redid their code individually on each and every cutscene, but instead fixed the toolset issues that caused the cutscenes to be buggy). Overall I'm not sure how much effort is required to add in new cutscenes. My personal opinion is that relative to the rest of the game, new warzones or new operations, which require the addition of new mechanics to the toolset, they would be easy and quick to do. It probably took a lot of resources to build into the toolset originally, but doesn't take as much resources now. Like the design of a bush might originally take a lot of work, but from the toolset its now a drag and drop(not quite to that extreme but you get the picture).

Of course I don't really know how they built their toolset. Given the focus of the game, its 4th pillar, I would assume they'd have tried to streamline the addition of new story content as much as possible. Nobody outside of Bioware really knows how much resources are now required to add new voice over content, so I think its hard to judge whether or not its causing a dearth of content.

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

The best part of the game. Also could potentially be TORs biggest problem (negative speculation). We all know that leveling was the best aspect of the game. I think everyone could agree it was enjoyable, atleast the first time through. I think its going to hurt the game in the long run. (negative speculation)

Reason 1... Voice overs are too costly to make. (unfounded negative speculation) It takes a lot of money to not only pay the actors, for all the voice over work, but to also code everything and design cutscenes for it. The game is not doing as well as they had hoped it would do. (another negative statement, omitting a few key facts) F2P may turn that around and it may not. The funding may not be there for future voice over work.

Reason 2 ... Time it takes to create. Voice over work takes time. Not only in recording and editing but also, like above, in coding and cut scene design... syncing etc. I think that BW was pretty ambitious about future content and what they thought they could do.

I believe that because voice over work is both time consuming and costly, that it may not be that often. I dont think we will see the qaulity or quantity, of the leveling game, in the future. (hey look, more negativity) I think the past products are showing this already. We have had no story updates. The new dailies are all from a terminal, instead of quest givers with voice over. The planet Makeb has said to have world arc stories but no class stories and no companion stories, even though there will be a level cap increase. Sadly, I think the best part of the game is going to fall to the wayside for quicker and cheaper content. (yet more negative speculation) I also believe that this will turn away those that play the game for that experience alone. (and again...) If that happens it will only get worse. (and again... this time piled on all of the others)

I think they would have been better off using voice over work for class story and companions as well as major world arc stories. I think all the side quests they should have just been like a terminal or the standard text box. This would have saved them in budget and time and those resources could have been allocated elsewhere. I dont expect to see the same quality as we had at launch, in the future. (and one last time...)