Voice overs potentially ToRs downfall?

Yeah we're about twenty years from that technology at least that doesn't sound like a transformer.

Oh and the perception is VO is astronomically expensive..that isn't the reality.

The way they built the entire game is restrictive from an MMO standpoint, and its on the road to an apathetic death. Its so sad, and its going to pull what Knights of the Old Republic stood for, in to the pit with it.

Yet you still fund it.

D0000mmmmmm!!!!

Just tell them to copy Rift....

I don't like onions on my burgers. Therefore no restaurant should make burgers with onions! Lovely logic I say.

Look who the OP is.... and what he's done before. You're not wrong.

I guess the real question would be is: given the nature that many games are emphasizing graphics and voice acting could TOR have really sold well if they went with say a Zelda style text only or Morrowind style voice overs only for minor background chatting/noise? Even KOTOR had voice overs for everything expect the player character and that was years ago.

Personally I think if there was little or no voice acting we'd have people complaining how that style of game is over and how the game is terrible because it isn't keeping up with the times. I think we'd have lost just as many subscriptions or even more subscriptions simply because people weren't happy at the lack of voice acting.

The people who spacebar through cutscenes don't care about story content anyway (given they miss all of the content by doing so) so any extra funds that would have been freed for additional story content by not having voice actors would have been wasted on these people. So the people the devs have to satisfy are the people who will sit through every cutscene (at least when they see it the first time) and I think those gamers today expect there to be voice acting, not text they have to read.

Rather than spending $200m plus on voice acting, they should of spent $200m on developing the games mechanics, BETA testing, class imbalances, and more content.


Voice acting has no replay value, and they shot themselves in the foot.


What does Bioware do? Does every content patch already have voice acting ready to be pushed out?

Or do they scrap the voice acting idea in future releases.

The current status of the game will very likely that it will compromise the quality and quantite of it we will see in the future.

I for one love the voice over and don’t think it to blame for why people quite (at least not all of them). One thing I most often hear praised about the game is leveling/stories, it simple end game where they failed. Maybe it could cause problem in the future development.

The problem was we were told end game would be different and not like WOW, not smashing on one big villain line come to mind. This could be because of the engine or just running out of time, but either way they failed to do something inquie. Maybe they could have done civil war over planets “control points” but I’m not really sure what would keep people.

I think they should have added more mini game; swooper racing, exploration with more meaningful rewards, and housing etc. These things can help break up the everyday grind.

I’m not really sure there is a way to keep players these day, they simple burn through content too fast and move on.