There are some people who enjoy the FFXIV style of dialogue to the point they wait to talk to Urianger with a passion. I ask myself “pray tell why, oh universal alchemy ?”.
I always was more fond of Alisaie, not because she is a teenager with daddy issues, who is impatient like such. But because her part on the story was always more straight forward.
But the game is not based on “one or other” player preference, it is based into two things:
- The less important “what most players prefer”
- The more important “what can players get over by and can be paid from the money the players give to the game”
I have worked in projects with human VA and I gotta say, sometimes I understand why certain developers talk what they talk about VA. The “twitter ad” VAs are often very reasonable with their demands and their prices, but certain VAs are “a little better” but charge way too much and top it off with demands that if they hadnt wrote themselves, one would doubt they really demanded it.
I even concede if the VA in question is like Christian Bale, or Shohreh Aghdashloo, not for the “fame”, but Christian Bale has a iconic way to make voice acting that is really worth some weird demands, and Shohreh has a unique voice that makes the team save on digital effects, on top of a very good control of her voice.
But I would not pay Conan Exiles for that kind of voice acting. Maybe Dune, but CE is not a game I would pay for the cast. I even paid for the freaking Elevator everyone talks about, but I would not pay the increased price of tons of voice overs from “amazing voice actors” given that most of the time playing you are not making use of it.