Voice overs potentially ToRs downfall?

It is still a very valid discussion. Most responses didnt understand what I meant by the thread though. I suspect that they read the title and not the context of the post.

I think most of you people have no clue how easy and less expensive it is to do voice overs nowadays. The technology at the moment is way long past the point and even now many games including single player but also other MMO's are using voice overs as the norm over standard text boxes.

Yeah right now most of you think this is taking up 90% of SWTOR work load, well it ain't. Most voice over actors don't need to head to a specific studio to record as most can lease time from actors in nearby studios.

To top it off most of you knuckle heads just want a quick grinding feel to the game that if bioware complied you will complain about 3 months later. This is what most developers lose at, trying to please the forum posters and customers with what they want instead of what they need.

If anything I like this new system, playing WoW I found it so boring doing the same thing over and over for badges with no change in routine that I burnt out. Having paid hundreds of dollars in subscription fews for no new content or innovative gaming with no appreciation for my patronage I left the game.

Finally despite not pulling so much cash as expected, this company does have a lot more connections in acting areas then other gaming companies and as such has more cost effective resources in acting development.

Really ask yourself do you even know the connections bioware has with EA, Lucasarts, etc. Whether you know anything about contracting voice actors for a game and how much money they get. Cause we aren't talking famous movie star actors Voice acting. We are talking regular cartoon/anime career voice actors. In the end it doesn't take any massive resources in the long run and wouldn't speed up game development if they cut that program.

Even now the work has been done, there isn't any real drain on resources in future development especially when they are adding a new payment model and content and graphics into the game.

You could have just said... trick or treat.

Interesting to note: your top-tier voice actors will pull in more cash for lending their voice to a game than your most high-profile live actors.

Interestingly, it's funny how some people disagree and state that other factors of this game lead to SWTOR's downfall. I think VOs were one of the major parts of SWTOR becoming such a flop.

major part? maybe,,we dont know how much of the budget it took

but it surely didnt have the positive long term effect, that they hoped for

STOs way of doing it works better overall IMO, as a "real " short movie sequence with several scenes

but theirs do not have voices,,yet,,and the visul quality is nowhere near this game

This thread was two or three pages behind, who the hell revived it?
Just let this troll thread die please...

Yes, voice overs were the downfall of SWTOR. Too much resources put into them when they would have been MUCH better put into something else. PvP, etc.

So because someone mentions something that could potentially be true yet you disagree with it then it's a troll thread?

Oh god not another stupid thread... whatever fine, I highly doubt it but if thats your view fine.