Video Game Voice Actor Strike Continues, as Union Pickets Batman Publisher This Week

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shikamaru317 said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Their role does matter... Just not as much as Devs.

I am not saying they don't deserve stuff, I am saying if they get stuff like this, the Devs should get more.

I agree that developers are screwed by publishers even more than voice actors, but that's a seperate battle for the developers to fight. I personally don't think it should have any effect on this battle. The fact is, video game voice actors are some of the lowest paid of all actors. Some of these games earn hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in revenue, yet the voice actors only get a few thousand dollars for their role in the game. Compare that to tv and movie actors, some of which earn hundreds of thousands of dollars per episode of a tv show, or millions of dollars for a movie role. Are video game voice actors any less talented than tv and movie voice actors? I personally don't think the best video game voice actors are less talented than the best tv and movie voice actors, in fact they might be more talented because they have more range and are able to make character sound different from one another, while some tv and movie voice actors always sound the same. 

Yea but games vs movies/tv shows are completely different things. Like when companies pay for the VA in movies/TV shows, they pay for the actors + VA. And the actors are one of the essential draws of the movie/TV show. Like for example, Leonardo Dicaprio made this documentary about climate change very recently and it is on youtube for free. Now I have zero cares about documentaries but since he is in it and he is one of my favorite actors, I watched the documentary. But if the ND's Voice actor from Uncharted did a VA in a different game, would I care? Is that the reason I would buy the game? No... And of course, as with actors, they are also paying for the acting and etc. Also not to mention that there isn't coding and etc involved in making movies like there is in making games since all you are doing is just watching which makes the actors/VA become more crucial to the medium.

Where as with games, it is a different story. With Nathen Drake for example, I am not buying Uncharted due to the Actor but I am buying it because of what the developers created. I liked the gameplay and I liked Nathen Drake who is mostly created by developers. The VA comes in for his voice and there is of course some acting but they aren't as essential as the developers who are making the game. We have seen this with MGS V where the VA got replaced and most people didn't seem to care outside of the minority. Now imagine of Johnny Depp got replaced in Pirates of the Caribbean sequel. Gl with that is what people would say.

More or less, in movies/TV shows, due to me only watching it, VA/Acting becomes very crucial. But when I am playing a game, the gameplay itself becomes far more crucial. Like you don't experience input lag, user interaction, bugs and etc when you watch a movie but when you play a game, you do and depending on the developer, it is either a positive experience or a negative one.