| konnichiwa said: Well it is all blown out of proprotions. Brandon (ex gametrailers now easy allies) wife is a voice actor and he read the demands in a podcast. Basically the strike is against a small number of companies big two culprits are EA/Activision were the demands got worse and when you have people who have to do four hour screaming sessions where they pass out/lose their voice or even cough up blood after a session you will get a strike. The financial demand is pretty low, in worst cases companies have to pay a bonus of 500$ on average to a voice actor when a game sells an amount of copies... Probably would be a combined 25.000$ bonus for the last Call of duty release... |
I agree that the demands were all pretty reasonable. Even the amount of residuals was surprisingly reasonable... for now, although I can see why the gaming companies wouldn't want to give in on that one because it just opens the door to demands for more and more down the road.
But on the working conditions aspects I'm with them 100%. There's nothing in there that should be concerning to the publishers that a simple NDA wouldn't cover.
