WTF? No Japanese voices?

[Monterossa]

I know this game doesn't have voice over in Japan, but what about non-Japanese gamers who speak Japanese?

Please add Japanese voices to the game. I don't mind if it's gonna come later as a DLC.

[bansama]

If they're not selling this in Japan (which they aren't) they are never going to add Japanese voices. Far too expensive to do that for markets that complain when a game costs more than 60 USD.

[Chomp]

They are only adding voice overs cause they think that it will sell less without them. Obviously they won't add japanese VO months after release.

[凹口凸口凹口凸]

Jpn VO is extremely expensive.

[badspot]

If you want to get your Japanese voices then just mute the English voices. Dragon Quest in Japan never had voices and it never will. And they won't just add Japanese voices for the west. Voice acting in Japan isn't the same as voice acting in West. It's extremely expensive.

[Unholy burden of Eternity]

if there was no JP voice over to begin with in the DQ11 JP release, then I don't see this as a big issue since some of the previous DQ games I know don't use eng/JP voice. Just text.

[Seattlehockeyfan84]

http://www.siliconera.com/2017/07/25/square-enix-explains-dragon-quest-xi-wont-voice-acting/

This is why there aren't japan dub.

[Seattlehockeyfan84]

Originally posted by 凹口凸口凹口凸:

Jpn VO is extremely expensive.

That and its hard to go back later to make changes.

[Davoodinator]

Originally posted by Monterossa:

I know this game doesn't have voice over in Japan, but what about non-Japanese gamers who speak Japanese?

Please add Japanese voices to the game. I don't mind if it's gonna come later as a DLC.

this is never a technical problem

from my own experience inquiring about similar situations to other japanese developers...

its a licensing issue.. they didn't want to re-license the voices for NA/EU

in some cases specially after a launch... the cost of re-licensing is cheaper than recording. which makes it all of a sudden cost time as well as money and therefore a no-go

only FF games get the budgets for international licensing for all of the media @ SE. while square and enix did merge.. it is square's IP that gets treated properly while all other IP gets treated like dumpster fires in relation (still tho not that bad haha)

[Davoodinator]

just an extra note:

DRM / licensing / etc has a much deeper and painful legal meta in Japan than in the west

[Seattlehockeyfan84]

Originally posted by Davoodinator:

Originally posted by Monterossa:

I know this game doesn't have voice over in Japan, but what about non-Japanese gamers who speak Japanese?

Please add Japanese voices to the game. I don't mind if it's gonna come later as a DLC.

this is never a technical problem

from my own experience inquiring about similar situations to other japanese developers...

its a licensing issue.. they didn't want to re-license the voices for NA/EU

in some cases specially after a launch... the cost of re-licensing is cheaper than recording. which makes it all of a sudden cost time as well as money and therefore a no-go

only FF games get the budgets for international licensing for all of the media @ SE. while square and enix did merge.. it is square's IP that gets treated properly while all other IP gets treated like dumpster fires in relation (still tho not that bad haha)

Problem is there is nothing to lisence if the japan dub doesn't exist.

SE would have to go and actually record the JP voices and thats just time and money.

[Davoodinator]

Originally posted by gstommylee001:

Originally posted by Davoodinator:

this is never a technical problem

from my own experience inquiring about similar situations to other japanese developers...

its a licensing issue.. they didn't want to re-license the voices for NA/EU

in some cases specially after a launch... the cost of re-licensing is cheaper than recording. which makes it all of a sudden cost time as well as money and therefore a no-go

only FF games get the budgets for international licensing for all of the media @ SE. while square and enix did merge.. it is square's IP that gets treated properly while all other IP gets treated like dumpster fires in relation (still tho not that bad haha)

Problem is there is nothing to lisence if the japan dub doesn't exist.

SE would have to go and actually record the JP voices and thats just time and money.

oh ahhaha that is even worse. there is no japanese version? of a DQ GAME?!?!?!?!?!???????

[badspot]

Originally posted by Davoodinator:

Originally posted by gstommylee001:

Problem is there is nothing to lisence if the japan dub doesn't exist.

SE would have to go and actually record the JP voices and thats just time and money.

oh ahhaha that is even worse. there is no japanese version? of a DQ GAME?!?!?!?!?!???????

There is a Japanese version but it didn't have any voices. They added English voices in Western version.

[Seattlehockeyfan84]

Originally posted by Davoodinator:

Originally posted by gstommylee001:

Problem is there is nothing to lisence if the japan dub doesn't exist.

SE would have to go and actually record the JP voices and thats just time and money.

oh ahhaha that is even worse. there is no japanese version? of a DQ GAME?!?!?!?!?!???????

I said japanese dub not no japaanese version.

The only DQ game that had japanese voices was DQ8 3ds and that was a port. The orginal DQ8 japan release for ps2 didn't have japan voices.

[Rogue]

No voices in Japanese console version that currently exist. Nuts to spend a ton on "Japanese" voice dub just for the "West" when the Console and PC game version is not even sold in Japan and the target audience is the West.

Already good that they spend for the English dub out of the other five EFIGS languages. Namely English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. Probably pushed by Square Enix Europe (A British subsidiary for Europe).

The new version is also slightly different from Japanese console version. It has hardcore mode, ability to run, first person view, ability to turn off all UI, english dub+lipsync, and revamped menu with item pics( JPN version is all text, old school style).

[Monterossa]

If there're enough people asking for JP voices in other games, why didn't SE make dual audio option for this game? Just because it didn't have voice overs in the Japanese version isn't an excuse. SE is a big company, and DQ is one of their flagships. They could do it.