(09-27-2013, 07:41 AM)Tobias Nightbringer Wrote: Unfortunately, I do agree that MMOs, for whatever reason, tend to be lower on the scale of VO acting in comparison to single player or even multiplayer (that is not on the MMO scale). So not sure if the ones that are less than par just have not refined their skills enough yet or they just do not care enough to bring quality to their work.
That's easy. The problem's the budget. Voice acting is expensive, and not every localization company wants to dish out the $$$ to pay for good VAs. For locally made MMOs, you have a better chance at finding good voice acting (e.g. WoW, GW2).
FFXIV really has no excuse, but Kingdom Hearts aside (and even then only the Disney cameos and the protagonists), SE doesn't really have much of a history of caring about the quality of localized voice acting.
What really gets me about the voice acting in FFXIV is Urianger (aka Balthier in FFXII, Fenris in Dragon Age 2, a bunch of Sylvari in GW2 etc) - we know this guy, we know he can do better, and even he sounds uninspired and wooden. Doesn't sound like most of them were trying. ):
But look at it from the bright side: at least it's not Ragnarok Online 2.
