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

[Darashiva]

KLXVER said:

Darashiva said:

The difference is, that regular joe can generally be safe in the knowledge that he's going to have a job even after he finishes the thing he's working on right now unless the entire business goes under. The voice actors can't trust that once one project ends, another will be coming right after. And, as people have already pointed out, if the game bombs, the voice actors would not be getting any additional money for their work. The would only get additional payments should the game prove to be commercially successful first. 

Then they should get work elsewhere. This has been the case in the gaming industry for the last two decades now. VAs are just not important enough. They should deal with that instead of trying to make a living on something you cant make a living at.

And again, there's absolutely no reason why they should not be given a decent salary for the work they do. Just because the past has been like that doesn't meant things can't or shouldn't change.