Is there voice acting, or is it all text?

[Justin_760]

Wondering if this game has actual voice acting for the various characters/quests. Or is it all text?

Interested in an MMO but not if its a World of Warcraft kind of no voice acting fetch quest fest. Thanks!

[Deckire]

It has voice acting but, it very little and spread out early on. Also 2.0 Voice acting is also very rough. The 2.X series will have a voice roster change, so again it is going to be very little on voice acting because of it.

As you Progress though more and more Voice Lines come out. Especially in Shadowbringers, their is a lot of voice line and choices your character can say compared to like 2.0 to 3.0 combined.

edit:

So a lot of reading early but less reading later on.

[MrMuffinz]

It's a bit of both.
Main cutscenes have voice acting, but the rest are text.
AFAIK after ARR (level 1-50) more and more become voice acted with each expansion.

[Hezz]

Originally posted by MrMuffinz:

It's a bit of both.
Main cutscenes have voice acting, but the rest are text.
AFAIK after ARR (level 1-50) more and more become voice acted with each expansion.

This. Aside from a couple of standout voices, a lot of the ARR voice acting was a little on the poor side, and ARR in general has a lot more voiceless text boxes than subsequent expansions.

Heavensward swapped out a lot of the voice actors, so once you get into that expansion you'll find some voices are quite different, others somewhat close. There'll also be a lot more voiced scenes, particularly in more important segments. Overall the expansions are a substantial improvement in this department. Well, they're a substantial improvement in *all* departments, ARR hasn't aged very well and SE really needs to do something about it, because outside of a few good parts pre-HW is terrible in comparison.

Sidequests and a lot of the in-between stuff, however? Text box. Even some of the important stuff will be text box.