The Voice Actress That Refused to Return to SWTOR

Maybe you've changed.....

I find this odd though as Arcann's VA, based on his Twitter activity, clearly does know who he's voicing and what his character's story is. Same with Vaylin's VA. Joseph Gatt who does Lord Scourge also seemed to know fine well who he was voicing at the time and has said he enjoyed voicing the Lord Scourge character.. hell he's even shared blog posts/articles that were written about his SWTOR character so it's strange that some VA's do seem to know exactly what they're doing and hired for while others don't.. and has me wondering where the problem truly lies. Not saying these VA's are lying about their experience but perhaps there's been a break in communication somewhere as it does feel like BW for the SWTOR title at least did inform VA's of who their character was. Or perhaps some VA's, having less experience prior to SWTOR and being excited for the job, made a little more effort to engage in their role than others did who'd by then already voiced over a 100 of other titles.

I don't think I could bear to play a smuggler in fe/et, especially not if it was a character that meant a lot of me. I think of all the personalities the classes used to have, the one-story-fits-all approach must hit the smuggler the absolute hardest. Though I suspect that agent comes in second pretty closely.

I'm glad to have done this research on the strike. Like I alluded to earlier, the fact that those actors are going in blind explains a lot of things I couldn't really understand before. I think I noticed the biggest change in the femtrooper's voice in RotC, I believe it was. Had no idea why she sounded so different. Turns out that sometimes, my trooper has no idea who she is and the realization makes me uncomfortable.

Especially after listening to this interview in which a VA explains how he felt about voicing a violent, racist character:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__oKJxJwagA

As far as how much they get paid, well, the only job I ever had was cleaning hotel rooms. It was exhausting, disgusting, low paid work in which I couldn't afford to eat *and* pay the gas bill to stay warm. But just because I suffered (during that phase of my life) why would I expect everyone else to suffer too? Video games make so much money, if there isn't enough to pay everyone fairly then I think it's worth asking why

I think this is a good question too. Why some seem to know and others don't. For example Steve Blum did Andronikos' voice, yes? From his lines you'd think he'd be able to deduce what game he was doing, or at least what sort. A lot of the characters talk about the Republic, the Empire, jedi, sith, etc.

I'll do the VO if BW want to hire me, I get told im unique sounding quite alot.

Mhm. There's a YouTube Joe did on Voice Acting and he does mention that often he doesn't receive the script before hand so it's a lot of 'on the spot' work as to how he'll approach the character and voice it but once the session starts he clearly does have an idea of what's going on. He describes trying to find the right balance for Scourge's voice so he was definitely aware which makes me wonder how others like Blum as you said, didn't. Or how they can sit there discussing the Sith, the Empire and so forth and then claim to be clueless. Perhaps what Blum and Hale meant is like Joe said, they don't receive a script in advance but it would seem that once recording starts, they have a far clearer idea of what sort of character/franchise they're involved in.

I don't think Jaesa or Khem will be back because of the two different options you have with Their stories. That would mean four more companion stories. To record and code.

Welcome to the wonderful world of retcon.

Or in other words, "Bobby's dead. Oh wait. He's not. He's been in the shower for the whole season."

Jaesa they can say fell to the DS or returned to the LS and that can change or keep her the same.

Khem, they can say Zash managed to free herself of Khem's body, but in doing so, had to return him to his.

If you're keen on the game, I think we should wait to see if Jaesa is brought back. There's been nothing to say that they won't.