The Voice Actress That Refused to Return to SWTOR

I am pretty sure the voice actress for Jaesa is not the only one that switched, the voice acting for the female smuggler is god AWFUL in kotfe and kotet. We went from a bad *** gritty smuggler, to a high and mighty super stuck up proper holier than thou jedi.

On the other hand, the female trooper voice went from very soldier low like to a softer version that is like Satele with emotion in SOR. I prefer the SOR version.

Yeah, Jennifer Hale is the one who isnt being used anymore if I understand correctly, so that would explain it. It just REALLY irked me that my smuggler, which is pretty much a mirror image of me =D, suddenly went so ......... pious.

Both Jennifer Hale and Kath Soucie have continued to voice their characters in KoTET - there was no change in voice actors.

Then why do all of them suddenly have a different tone? Seriously, the female merc is the only voice actress I noticed so far that sounds even remotely the same.

Maybe cose they are saying the same thing over and over lol and that line is used by everyone you have ?

Its not just about what they say, its about how they say it. Before kotfe and kotet the smuggler had this smug ( go figure ) silly kind of light hearted tone, now she is super serious and is tries ( but fails miserably ) to sound like some holier than thou jedi / sith.

Maybe after so many years the actors forgot exactly how they made the character sound before. It's highly unlikely they play the game like we do and hear their own character constantly, plus with all the other projects they've done in the meantime they could've mixed up what tone they're going for here.

Been too long and they forgot. She voices Satele and the trooper sounds more like Satele but with emotion in her voice. It was really a nice change as I was worried she'd sound very butch in the romance scenes. She did not. it's definitely the same VA. The trooper yes sir lines still have that soldier tone.

VA for female SI and the VA for female IA post kotfe sound like they did pre kotfe

Because when they are hired to read their lines they aren't told what project or role they are reading the lines for. They are given a sheet with their lines and some rudimentary direction and they go for it.
Those voice actors probably didn't even know that the lines they were reading were for a character they had already voiced in the past.
Without knowing that they are voicing a character they had done before they wouldn't know to sound the way they had in the past.
This is actually part of the reason these voice actors are striking. They see that sometimes their work lacks continuity and they don't like that, it reflects badly on them. Steve Blum said that he didn't even know he was portraying a character in a Star Wars Game until 6 months after the game launched and the cast was published on IMDB.