Nolan North has strong words for striking voice actors

[DonFerrari]

shikamaru317 said:

DonFerrari said:

It's actors that think they deserve better payment, but not through negotiating their value but demanding through unions. So if you think even the ones that are paid enough are complaining them you see there is a parcel of entitlement.

No they aren't forced to work 2nd or 3rd. The VA is the 2nd or 3rd. If I pay soccer class and train every day but only get to play once or twice a year while working as Manager in a bank am I a soccer player or a bank Manager?

Getting a couple hundred for a day of work isn't shabby. The work you get to do 3 times a year for a few days shouldn't be the one paying your bills.

And living near your work is a responsibility of yourself not the company, they could just dismiss the candidate that doesn't live near if you want them to pay the cost of transport. The company paying that cost is only reasonable in basically two conditions you are close the company but they need you to go to a far away place or you are an specialist being hired for a specific issue and you'll charge all costs, fees and wage to go.

They have tried negotiating, they spent the last 18 months before the strike started negotiating with the publishers in question, and the best offer they got was pathetic, hense why they are striking now. 

The problem is that there isn't some mecca of voice acting when it comes to video games. It's not like movie and tv acting where you simply move to LA if you want to find work. Many game studios do their recording in studio, and video game studios are spread all around the world, so the actors are forced to fly to get there to record their lines. If game studios would be more open about letting actors record their lines from a recording studio near them, it wouldn't be an issue, but due to the high level of secrecy involved with game development, developers like to record the lines in a controlled environment, ie their own studio. So yes, it should be the respnsibility of the company to pay for the flight.

Nope, I'm trying about each person negotiating their working conditions/payments instead of wanting person that generate very little value earning the same that one that does a good value.

Nope if you aren't company employee you shouldn't expect they to pay for your cost, the company can just easily hire someone closer to the studio. Is not like there is much difference to the company hiring Jane Doe or Doe Jane to act a unimportant person in the game.

Funny enough one of the culprits for the rise in production costs in VG is voice acting.