SWTOR at release had the most hours of voiced dialogue of any video game project in history, I believe They had to hire everyone
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SWTOR is the "technicality" bugbear to my "big budget games have almost no LGBT representation" argument, which I still hold to, but TECHNICALLY it has the Gay Planet and objectively it is the highest budget game ever made
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
SWTOR isn't *nearly* the highest budget game made, is it?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
200 million, so yes, unless some other game has a secret higher budget.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
Studio time with union actors really, really adds up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I mean that and I'm sure the playtest budget was hell, but yes
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
We don't talk about it that much because SWTOR didn't fail exactly but it wasn't nearly successful enough to justify what they spent There's a review saying it's the "last of its kind", the last best attempt to be a WoW-killer by just doing WoW with better technology
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I mean it wasn't JUST WoW with better technology, it was, as you say, WoW with fully voiced dialogue and cutscenes like a single player game But yeah, it definitely was not a success precisely, although it got plenty of expansions
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Oh by that metric SWTOR was smashed so flat by FF14 it's hilarious. The one exception is that the dialog is only periodically voiced in FF14 for important scenes
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
This is a victory that I, as an eternal partisan of the "Final Fantasy is my generation's Star Wars and has surpassed it," and "JRPGs beat CRPGs, in the end" factions, will savor.
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It doesn't really matter though, like the end result is still none of the WoW-killers killed WoW
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
IDK, FF14 is going massively strong - it's more popular than ever - while WoW is teetering along like a mortally wounded rhino.
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