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

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JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

I agree that it is what they should do but they are all fighting for money. Games, while they do sell a lot, doesn't mean they give unlimited profits to the companies. Yes, we have companies taking up pretty huge profit margins but that is how businesses work. If there is suddenly a price war between different roles, then the company will have to take care of all of them which will lead to lower net profits which will lead to lower stock value which will lead to layoffs. Not saying that is exactly what will happen but it could if they handle this poorly.

I am not saying their current thing is perfect either but all I am saying is that Publishers need to look after the rest before making any deals with VAs. Because if they don't then the more essential groups will go on strike and the games themselves will be haulted then. The Publishers need to make everyone happy while making sure that everyone gets compensated for the specific role accordingly. Because as soon as a party that arguably isn't as important to the game gets more than the ones that arguably are, there shall be lots of shitz hitting lots of fans and it will be a shit fest if not handled correctly.

Publishers have compared the gaming industry with the movie industry for years. Well, now they are facing the same problems the movie industry has had to deal with for years.

And I disagree with you. Voice actors and developers aren't fighting for the same money, because there is not a fixed amount of money used to pay all of them. The publisher fixes a budget, yes, but in that budget everything has to be taken into consideration, and a higher cost for voice actors won't affect the money to pay the rest of the people involved in the production of a game. After all, we all know that publishers spend more on advertising than in the game production itself.

And if publishers face troubles for paying their employees what they deserve, maybe it's time to take a look at what the f*ck they're doing with the millions they get from the games, season passes, dlcs, companion apps, etc they sell. Maybe the problem is not the people that creates the games, but the executives that run the companies.

Yea well, I always thought it was nonsense :P

Yea but paying for advertising is a thing that has to be done. If it costs that much to sell a game and make people notice, then it doesn't matter if the advertising costs more than the game itself because if that is what it takes to get it in people's hands, then they can't reduce it. And while it isn't a fixed amount, it is in the sense that they can't increase it to any amount they want otherwise they won't make enough profit to impress the investors.

But here's the thing, the only people that I have seen complain are the VA as far as paying employees what they deserve in this incident. The developers aren't exactly complaining and neither are the rest of the crews. Cause if they were, they would go on strike and voice their anger no? So it feels like as far as developers and etc go, they are getting paid what they deserve (with some exceptions obviously) cause if they aren't complaining, they are probably happy. But the VAs seems to feel that they deserve more than what they are getting paid and its not even all the VAs. Correct me if I am wrong but didn't we have some VAs also saying VAs don't actually deserve much more or at least not what they are trying to pull.

Cause currently, with the game budgets, no one is taking residuals to devs/VA/etc into account as far as I know but if they all suddenly want it, that is quite a big cut into their profts since for every X amount of copies sold, the employees are getting Y amount where as before, the publishers could take all of it afaik. Specially since the devs would probably want much more than what the VAs would get and etc.

Overall, it is a tricky situation. I will be curious to see what happens