Voice actors for video games come across as an entitled bunch. As if they've seen the revenue stats for video games vs. movies and have concluded that they should get paid like a real actor who later ends up doing voice work for an animated movie. But the reality is that nobody knows these video game voice actors, except for a few nerds. If someone gets offered a few thousand dollars for a short job and then turns it down despite being so easily replaceable, then it's hard to find any sympathy for them.
In a way voice actors for video games are like writers for video games. They'd like to be like movie stars, but if they had the actual talent, then they'd be working in movies, not video games.
In this particular case, the sequence of events seems like Platinum wanted to get rid of her and have a reason to get someone better than her as the voice of Bayonetta. Her call for a boycott could have had a chance if video games were like movies, i.e. if a popular series gets rid of someone like Johnny Depp, then there's a good chance that a significant number of people would decide to not go see the movie. But we are talking about a video game here where voice actors just don't make any tangible difference.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
