videoboy.4162 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I have so much more respect for you guys for doing this for your workers. Great call! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naxos.2503 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Perfectly reasonable. We dont know when you'll be able to move again, so if it takes a very long time, the game might stall for extended periods of time. It'll be weeeeeeeeeeeird. But I'll survive until it's fixed post launch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 First of, thanks for letting us know. :) :+1: Secondly, **why on Earth do you make that male Charr PC's actor's _wonderful_ voice sound so _awful_ in the game??** Seriously, please stop messing with it, it sounds **so much better in its natural timbre** (he is already doing such a great job speaking in a lower register). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taelac.7036 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I very much appreciate the care shown to the voice actors that make the game come to life, and also that the episode will be released on schedule, anyway. I look forward to replaying the story when it's safe for the actors to perform, and it will be very nice to have some new content to play with in the meantime. I wasn't planning to buy gems this month, but I'll be doing so when I log in tonight in a modest demonstration of support for doing the right thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDave.2809 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 What I want to know is was the option to have the VA's record their voice lines from their own homes ever considered a option, and why was it ultimately decided against? In this day and age it's not only easy but quite standard for VA's to work from home especially when it comes to smaller or side projects or when they are just starting out, and all that's really needed is a proper professional grade microphone that only costs a few hundred dollars. You can still have the other person listening in live in a call and giving feedback too and have the recorded files sent over for a proper inspection and editing. I understand that no matter what though, any studio record audio will always have a higher/better end product (for example being able to do live group recordings), but using your own argument, why not at least have some recorded voice lines and then re-record it later in a studio setting? Is there really that great of a concern that the quality would just be too under par? Or (which I highly doubt its the case) do the employed VA's not have the skills or resources to be able to do recordings at home? I'm not going to try to argue that it was a bad or wrong decision to delay the voice lines as I'm sure ArenaNet have their procedures and standards when it comes to creating content, but I'm very curious to know what they are as like I said in the beginning, in this age of technology we live in it's both relatively easy and cheap to perform almost all levels of game development from home be it coding, design or even audio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bridget Morrigan.1752 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I'd much rather have the content and get the voice acting later, especially as someone who is not able to go to work at the moment. I need my diversions. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaraki.5784 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Great job Anet, you had the balls to make this hard decision and I fully agree with this choice. In my opinion better playing a non-voiced Ep3 than waiting months for it. We can still replay it once it gets voice added, so it's like a double content. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susy.7529 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 > @"GDave.2809" said: > What I want to know is was the option to have the VA's record their voice lines from their own homes ever considered a option, and why was it ultimately decided against? The obvious reason is $$$, they'd have to pay VAs twice, one for the home-recording and one for the studio recording later. And I hope you understand that it's a totally unreasonable solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Kracker.4790 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 > @"Susy.7529" said: > > @"GDave.2809" said: > > What I want to know is was the option to have the VA's record their voice lines from their own homes ever considered a option, and why was it ultimately decided against? > > The obvious reason is $$$, they'd have to pay VAs twice, one for the home-recording and one for the studio recording later. > And I hope you understand that it's a totally unreasonable solution. That and the quality of the performance could be anything from great to not very depending on the equipment that the actors have at home. Which is to say they might not have anything that can record in a high enough definition other than a phone or over a possibly substandard headset mic. Or their place of residence doesnt have enough baffling to keep out exterior sounds which can corrupt even the best recording with sub harmonics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrel.6318 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 I think they should just have different events/event buffs, working in the previous episode areas, and release the episode later on when it's complete, that would work perfectly for us people who just came back to play with the free icebrood saga episodes. or like events to liven up the old areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klypto.1703 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 I guess this means not hearing Braham whine about his mommy, his guild, and/or his bow. It probably doesn't need any voice acting to think of it roflmao. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westenev.5289 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 No voice acting doesn't have to be a bad thing - it sounds like a good chance to get a guild together and do our own voice acting (over discord, with whoever is online at the time). It shall be a glorious train wreck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepenmonster.3621 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 **_IceBrood Saga Ep.3: Our Voices Are Not Our Own_** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leablo.2651 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 I know part of this depends on the government's lifting of sheltering orders, but is there any kind of timeline projection for when the voices will go in? It would help to know if it might be worth it to postpone a story run until the voices are there, or whether to write off the voices for a secondary playthrough. Are we talking about getting the voice actors into the office as soon as businesses are allowed to reopen, or having to schedule for it months after the fact due to pipelining issues? With it following the end of the SAB festival, something that might help is if Anet implemented some gibberish sounds as a placeholder for the characters' voices, to kill the silence and maybe add a bit of humor as we live through these dire circumstances. It would be an opportunity to make the lack of real voices into a feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Priestess.9760 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 I am fine with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizdeath.5143 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 > @"Fire Attunement.9835" said: > As the world continues to fight the spread of COVID-19, we’re working remotely on content updates for Guild Wars 2. Because the recording studio staff and voice actors who help bring Guild Wars 2 to life are also abiding by shelter-in-place guidance to keep the virus from spreading, we’ve chosen to release the upcoming third episode of The Icebrood Saga without voice acting. I disagree with this. Why not have they record at home, include the substandard voice overs, and accept it as part of what the plague does to society. I hope you are at least paying them retainer fees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlaraujo.3210 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Thank you for communicating and for putting the effort to continue to deliver content to us. Would have gladly waited in case you guys decided to delay the episode as well, but I hope people understand that in the scenario we are living now, the outcome of this pandemic, as to when we will all be able to resume our activities normaly, is just unpredictable to take that risk. And to have the team doing it remotely might just be undoable, since voice acting isn't just record your voice and put it on the game. The immersion and the playthrough will take a hit? Absolutely, but these are hard times and I think we all can just get past over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teratus.2859 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 > @"Westenev.5289" said: > No voice acting doesn't have to be a bad thing - it sounds like a good chance to get a guild together and do our own voice acting (over discord, with whoever is online at the time). It shall be a glorious train wreck. That does sound like fun xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zealex.9410 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 You made the right choice, i prefer this ober a delay and it comming later anyways means ill have more reason to replay it down the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhonti.5162 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Perhaps it is possible to add a title: Tyria's voices do matter, or something like that when this episode is reworked with voices so we can show support to the voice actors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanjameson.3542 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Shame...the voice acting is actually my favorite part of Living World. Ah well, this'll give me a reason to go back and play it a second time, when the voice acting is added later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pifil.5193 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 I'm going to play it with the sound off and a sepia filter from the aviator memory box like one of those old timey silent video games. I'll be disappointed if Bangar doesn't have a big black moustache and top hat in this episode though. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blude.6812 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Hopefully they will be added later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 > @"Blude.6812" said: > Hopefully they will be added later. > > > They will adding it in later, yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diak Atoli.2085 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 > @"thepenmonster.3621" said: > **_IceBrood Saga Ep.3: Our Voices Are Not Our Own_** _Episode 3: The Sound of Silence_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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