Video game companies reach agreement to end voice actor strike

[SvennoJ]

TheBraveGallade said:

DonFerrari said:

The very important and stressfull work of the VA that do some dozen hours on a game versus coders that put some thousand hours... yes they need a lot of protection and sure besides being paid by the work done they also need extra by number of contracts (while every other business being contracted more frequently is the bonus itself and usually comes with discount on the volume)... and then we'll start hearing more about the rise of cost and etc.

Also on not knowing the project can also help prevent leaks and it isn't as really someone that have to read lines for money needs to know for what they are reading it.

VA's can still make or break gmaes, sure, but I agree that the PROGRAMMERS deserve far more protection then them.

Maye some day programmers grow the balls to start a union. Although programming work can easily be shipped to India or China, voice work a bit more difficult. Ofcourse if programmers are smart they create perfect voice synthesizers, no more need for VA! That will have to happen some time anyway, how long can we still go on with pre-recorded questions and answers. Voice actors can then train the AI to sound like them. Basically what the movie The congress is about for voice work. (before it goes all weird)