Voice overs potentially ToRs downfall?

I dont know about you but I personally hated watching cut scenes in alien language. Those were the first ones to hit the space bar.

Once again for those that apparently missed my first post in here...

The devs (Reid and Ohlen) said early on that they have recorded enough voice over work to make years worth of content. They thought ahead. The path is planned out. The game is not going to need any new voice over work for years to come.

Voice overs or the lack thereof will not be the death of SWTOR, at least not anytime soon.

I don't understand why they had to pay millions of dollars for voice work.

They could do auditions for try out voice actors and pay them LOTS less. Voice acting is not the same as acting. It can easily be trained.

Good sounding voices aren't that hard to find. Really don't need big name celebrities for just voices.

See above.

Well they should have done that initially.

I really don't understand why they needed celebrity voice actors at all.

Established professionals are generally easier to work with because it's not their first rodeo so to speak. It means that it should take less time to get the good takes of each line.

Some of the voice actors they used have also been actors they have used in previous games that Bioware developed. I think in those actors' cases, it could have actually been cheaper if they had already been working with them on something else.

I get why they didn't just grab a bunch of people who weren't trained to keep the costs down; in this game there is not very many areas where you feel one character really sounds good while the others don't, but it's apparent in games with one or two professionals that you do get what you pay for.

They did do it initially. They recorded years worth of voice work with good actors because, I'm sorry, but voice work is not as easy as some of you seem to think. Not everyone has the voice for it. Not everyone can say the lines with the emotion you want to hear. That's why they got actual actors instead of dolling out the voice work out to people in their office or hiring people off the street.

People also tend to forget that a major cause of the falling Sub numbers is all of the negativity that people have been reading on the forums here. I had to talk at least over a dozen friends into sticking with the game all because of the negativity that's been posted here. They have enjoyed everything about this game except for the majority of the negative posts that have been showing up here. I agree that EA has screwed up BioWare since they aquired it 6 yrs ago. But then again thats what they do best same with Activision screwing up its sub companies. Also with the new update 1.4 they punish PvE only players like me? all because the PvP players complained doesnt seem fair at all. However I wont stop playing TOR its the first MMO since FFXI to actually challenge me thats why I plan to stick with it.

^ Jkasdorf is right ^

Voice overs was exciting the first week of the game. Since then, I've space-barred as quickly as I can through everything.

I agree all this voice overs is killing TOR's budget and increasing their content time-table tremendously.

BW - I would be fine if you just had subtitles for everything and just skip all the useless voice overs.