No voice for Venti?

I might be kicking a hornets nest with this question and I'm honestly not meaning to, I'm just a little confused.

I'm aware that there was a thing with the VA's a few months back, something about not being paid??? But then the VA for Paimon got in trouble for saying something and then other VA's were being dropped? This is the barest bones of the info that I remember.

But my question is: I know that some of the VA's decided to not continue with Hoyo and to not keep going with being the voices of their characters, and that's whatever that's their decision, but didn't some of the characters get new VA's? Because Sucrose has a new voice and Paimon has a new one too????? Right? So then why would Venti not have a voice in a recent thing I just did in Mondstat while talking to another bard? It was a quick little side quest thing where Venti just kinda showed up and there was lots of talking. Did Venti's VA leave too?

I'm just wondering if all of the characters are going to suddenly go quiet in the game in different parts? I noticed a while ago that there was no voices for characters but then now that I'm playing again everyone seems to have audio again.

I've been playing since 2021 but I took a very LONG Hiatus and I'm just now trying to play more consistently because I do really like the game. I'm still only in Liyue and I haven't even gotten to Inazuma if that tells you how early in the game I still am. I get lost while exploring alot. . . . so the actual story quest kinda gets set to the way side often. . .

I also just don't always pay attention to the drama or the controversy that's happening and then I'm suddenly like "WOW whats been going on?!"

So If someone can point me in the direction of answers that would be cool.

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HuTaosTwinTails2026-01-09 16:17

No venti's VA didn't leave. In fact she now also voices Istaroth as well as Venti.

Writing_daydreams092026-01-09 16:19

YAY! Good to hear. Then does the game just sometimes not do audio for some of the characters? Paimon and the other NPC's voices were fine

HuTaosTwinTails2026-01-09 16:21

They might not have had time to go back and add in all voice lines for every quest.

notthatjaded2026-01-09 16:22

No, in that particular instance at the time Erika (Venti's VA) was not voicing him due to complications from the SAG-AFTRA voice actors' strike (I really don't want to rehash the drama of that time, that's the short version). Many characters were missing voices for a while while others weren't because their VAs were still working. Over time since the strike ended, those things that were unvoiced have gotten mostly filled in but a few things here and there are not filled in yet.

lostn2026-01-10 04:09

the one quest that had the most missing voices is Paralogism, and that one has most of the VO inserted now.

kazuyaminegishi2026-01-09 16:18

Venti is voiced. Was probably an unvoiced cutscene or it was a scene that hasn't had lines recorded yet.

Everything else you yapped about is completely irrelevant and there's no real reason to talk about it in relation to this question.

Writing_daydreams092026-01-09 16:21

Cool, I didn't know that was a thing that happened. I just remember there being a big to-do with the VA's months back and thought it all correlated. \*shurgs\*
The other characters were voiced which is why I thought it was strange. Thank you

notthatjaded2026-01-09 16:19

Venti's VA is still the same and is still around though for a while during the strike she was not voicing Venti but she has since come back.

That particular quest just hasn't been updated. As you say, it's just a small thing and Venti has been in content since then that has a higher priority for having his voice (they fill in the unvoiced stuff with newer stuff first and the older stuff as time allows I guess).

Writing_daydreams092026-01-09 16:25

Thank you! That makes a lot more sense, I didn't know if they would go back and revoice things or not or if they would just keep the parts unvoiced that were during that time. It's been weird to go from hearing voices to suddenly not in some quests. But I appreciate you, thank you

LadyNova012026-01-09 16:21

Venti's VA hasn't left as he's voiced in the Durin SQ but sometimes if a VA has to come in for like 2 lines of dialogue it's not worth it to bring a VA in the recording booth as it's very expensive for something so minute.

So if there's 1 or 2 lines of Dialogue from a character that has a VA then they can choose to not add a VA because of the small portion.

Another reason could be that the VA was busy with another project and didn't have the time to record their section and that is why there is no VA

notthatjaded2026-01-09 16:23

In this case, the quest OP is talking about came out during the SAG-AFTRA strike (it's the rhythm game one) when Venti's VA was not coming in to record him. It hasn't been filled back in yet. That's all there is to it.

Frost_Niflheim2026-01-09 16:22

Some characters are still unvoiced in EN, but some minor quests (world quests for example) are intentionally not voiced at all, and in very few of these, playable characters make appearances. Bit on these, their mouths don't even move.

Basically, if the character's mouths is moving and they are more expressive with their movements (or if everyone else around has voideover except for said character) then it's because of the VA situation. However, if the character's face/mouth is not moving and everyone else is silent too, it's probably just an unvoiced world quest.

Writing_daydreams092026-01-09 16:28

That's why it was so weird, because Paimon and the other NPC were voiced and moving, just like you said, so when Venti arrived on screen and didn't have a voice I was so taken aback. It was the weirdest thing. I don't even remember what quest it was, It was just a strange cut scene with a bard.

lostn2026-01-10 04:06

most actors have returned. Some quit their roles outright, some refused to work unless conditions were met that they know were unlikely (these actors were replaced), some showed their true colors on social media and had to be replaced (but they wouldn't have returned even if they weren't replaced).

The ones who only stopped work because of the strike and had intentions of returning when the strike was over were able to keep their roles when the strike ended. The ones who asked for more than this either had to walk back their demands or didn't return. They realized they were replaceable and that a client can find another actor easier than an actor can find another client.