Melodic Voice is Broken
With the last update (Patch 1.116, July 1st), many of the lines for the Melodic Voice have been changed to a different one, but not nearly close to all. So the characters keep changing between voices all the time, which is inconsistent, distracting, and overall bad for our gameplay experience.
Besides, the Melodic Voice as we know it has been with us for over ten years now, and not only have many of us grown used to it, it is an intrinsic part of the personality to many of our beloved characters. I for one don't want to see it retroactively changed, much less arbitrarily or carelessly.
We understand that Voice Actors are human beings, and that a lot can happen in a decade. With the game still in active development, it is understandable that there might be a need for more lines to be added.
But to replace lines that have already existed with us for a long time, whilst failing to add any new contexts, interaction options or new dialogues, whilst also not fully replacing all the voice over lines but to keep it in an inconsistent hybrid state, is simply detrimental to us users, and objectively undesirable.
Please revert these changes as soon as possible, and let's find a better solution for the future regarding this, or a more satisfactory compromise if one needs to be reached.
Hey all,
I've moved this thread out of the Bug Reports section as it turns out that this was not a bug at all, but rather the result of the original Melodic voice actor leaving the cast early last year.
While this may have been an intentional change and not a bug, your feedback here has been noted and flagged to the appropriate teams on our side. While I can't promise that anything will come of it, Maxis are now aware of this thread and your concerns.
Thanks for noticing these details, it's one of the things that makes me appreciate this community so much.
