Nolan North has strong words for striking voice actors

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KLXVER said:

shikamaru317 said:

It's not just the lesser known voice actors that aren't being paid enough. There are some high profile voice actors taking part in this strike as well, people like Phil LaMarr and Jennifer Hale.

Just because they are forced to work a 2nd or 3rd job they shouldn't consider themselves to be voice actors? Even though that's what they want to be, what they've trained for, even paid for voice coaching lessons to become? I'm not saying these smaller voice actors should be paid the big bucks, many of them do nameless NPC voices and such, but they should make more than they are now. Some of them get paid a couple hundred dollars a day and only record a few days a month, that barely even covers the cost of the flight to the voice recording location if the actor doesn't live near where the recording is taking place. 

Thats why its something you do on the side. Its not a job you can make a living from, so instead of dealing with that, they are trying to force publishers to make it something its not. There are many other jobs VAs can try to pursue out there.

That's one of the most asinine reasonings I've been hearing lately within the topic of wages.

I bet you think athletes are overpaid or don't deserve their wages. Voice Actors contribute to the development and improvement of the games, so if they contribute to sales and better branding, they deserve better treatment when it comes to salary.

No one is saying they're supposed to be paid more than devs, but devs are not standing up for themselves and are getting crushed by greedy fat cats in the board doing nothing but setting up deadlines for their manufacturing jobs.

"Its not a job you can make a living from..." you can argue about that on any job out there.