Re: Announcing Expanding Known Space from Valiant Galaxy Associates
Ironcross,
I would agree with you if there hadn't been numerous points made earlier that we were looking at changing this setting.
As to your opinion of the voice, that's fine, but the reason we did so are twofold:
1. Of the two of us, at the time, Aaron had the better microphone and recording setup to handle the voice duties.
2. Paying for professional voice acting is frankly unrealistic. It would either be prohibitive and basically cut any profit we make to 0, or it would cause us to price the games far above where we wanted.
We could have others do so on a volunteer basis, but that then puts our production schedule at the mercy of numerous others whom we have to wait on, possibly not use depending on recording quality, and then coordinate.
For the first few games those considerations decided the matter.
With this game, the fact is like it or not, the voice is part of what sets our games apart from others. I accept your point about international players, but if the game is in English, no matter the voice, it's possible to run into the issues no matter what device is delivering the text.
Working with the community has been something we have done extensively in the past, so I find this line of argument fececious at best. We released updates to all of our games except Interceptor within a month or so of their release to address issues brought up by the community--other than the sself-voicing. The only reason we have not offered an update to Interceptor yet, is that we are planning to do a complete overhaul of the game to make it a better experience, not just apply some patches to a game that we felt, in retrospect, was not as good as it could be.
We have addressed this voicing issue numerous times, just in this thread, not to mention in previous threads. We have noted three times now before this that we're exploring use of another synthesizer. We're not going to address this further. At this point, continuing to argue about the voice is frankly, an attack. If someone tells you they are changing something, then continuing to criticize the thing being changed is not constructive nor criticism.
Take care,
Jeremy
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