Voice overs potentially ToRs downfall?

They never intended to have a full flight space game....this isn't a flight-simulator game. They don't need more classes. There's 4 classes and 8 advanced classes on each side. That's more than enough and they need stick somewhat within SW lore here....they aren't going to add Orcs or Pandas as a class, lol. The playable species has nothing to do with voice. Yeah, they could add Wookies and Jawas as a playable race without voice but there's 20 other races they could add right now (Togruta, Nautolan, etc.) without needing any changes for voices. Not sure why they haven't added more...but it's not because of voice. There wouldn't be leveling on every planet for 1-50. That would be a sandbox game and this was never intended to be a sandbox game, regardless of the voice acting. So what level would the mobs be on Hoth? How would a level 4 and a level 39 player be able to level on the same planet? You're describing a sandbox game, not a leveling game. A leveling game has to have "zones" which have mobs set at a certain difficulty. They could certainly add more zones to different planets so you have alternative planets to go to in your level range but there is no realistic way to set up every planet as a planet where everyone could level no matter their current level unless you had like 99% of the planet instanced.

While I understand the OP's concerns about the potential restrictions on future content due to the voice-acting (although they've said previously that they recorded a ton of dialogue for future content), it sounds like you're talking more about wishing they made a sandbox game or a flight simulator game. This game was never intended to be or represented as being either.

Maybe they should have picked even one of those things and concentrated on it?

I'd rather have a weak mixture of what we have than something like GW2, where if you don't like WvWing all the time than you're SOL.

Had they picked one thing and foucused on it than this game would go the same path as WAR or GW2. What they have now allows for growth of all MMO aspects.

What ToR should do is go to the local colleges/universities and get students who are pursuing the radio/television field and have a sign up sheet on who would be interested in this. Let them know there is no pay though but something like this does start of their resumes and will be good experience as well.

This solves the cost issue and of course it takes time to edit etc. but doing something like this I think will get a lot done vs. scheduling times for paid actors to come in.

And those who don't think this would work or draw students in because it is free wouldn't know the field then. I took it in college and would have signed up for something like this in a heart beat. Your voice will be heard by thousands to hundreds of thousands people. I did internships at a popular Los Angeles radio station during college and never got paid but you do it for the experience. At least in this case your voice will be heard.

The way SWTOR implemented VOs costed so much, that they could focus on MMO features that would make this game re-playable for a long time.

Hello NECRO'D thread...

A month or two is hardly a necro, particularly when the discussion is still relevant.

A month or two is hardly a necro, particularly when the discussion is still relevant.