Voice actors union authorizes strike! - now if there is no agreement it will happen

[noname2200]

binary solo said:

noname2200 said:

Ka-pi96 said:

SubiyaCryolite said:
Wow, absolutely no sympathy from some of you >_>

Think that's largely because people are obsessing over the royalties part and often aren't even mentioning all the other problems they currently have, so it makes them look greedy or whatever despite the fact that they do have some legitimate problems.

That's entirely the voice actors' fault for even including that demand. What did they expect to happen?

Why? Residuals are a legit demand as long as the conditions under which they come into effect are reasonable and tailored to the aspects of the video game indistry that make it distinct to the TV/Film industries.

I'm cutting out the rest of your post because this is the root of where you're incorrect.

Let's set aside whether or not voice actors should be entitled to royalties for videogames (although for the record you and I are on opposite sides on that subject as well). ka-pi complained that demanding royalties makes the voice actors' guild "look greedy or whatever." The simple fact is that most of the internet, at least, appears convinced that most video game voice actors do not deserve any royalties (see, e.g. this thread), and that demanding royalties is purely greed. I believe this was a completely predictable outcome. The guild has done little, if any, attempt to convince the public to the contrary. So without doing that groundwork, the royalties demand inevitably makes them look greedy in the eyes of most. Assuming they care about the general public's opinion, adding this demand to the rest was a big miscalculation.