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Kakadu18 on 16 October 2022
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sc94597 said:
Kakadu18 said:

4k for 16 hours is exactly what I said. Main characters can get more, but how is that a contradiction?

Bold: She clearly made up profit numbers of the franchise. Bayonetta can not have made anywhere close to as much as 450mil dollars. That is nonsense. That means she lied about one thing which puts everything she said in question. You shouldn't just believe things that easily.

250 per hour is right in the middle of what any character is paid. Notice it says "200-300 per hour" referring to any characters. For 16 hours that's $3200 - $4800. 

The source then goes on to say that a main character in a visual novel can expect $500 - $700 per hour, which would be $8000 - $11,200 for 16 hours. 

Assuming that Bayonetta requires more than a regular character, but less than a visual novel main character, you'd expect her voice actor to be paid something like $400 per hour or $6400. 

And those were the rates 4 years ago, before the pandemic and double digit YoY inflation. 

By the way, it is perfectly possible that she was misinformed about the revenue figures and wasn't intentionally lying. Why would she be an authority on Bayonetta's revenue? It doesn't even affect her point. Bayonetta as a franchise definitely has total revenue in the hundreds of millions given that the first game sold more than 2 million, the second almost 1.5 million, and there was the anime. Now compare that to the company explicitly lying and saying she isn't the VA due to "scheduling problems" that they never substantiate, even after being called out on it. 

Bold: Doing the math is very easy. Most of the copies the franchise sold were far below full price. For a revenue of 200mil dollars it would need 3.3mil copies sold all at full price. That didn't happen. Considering the first game got rereleased quite a lot, bundled with Bayonetta 2 on Wii U and Switch and with Vanquish on other platforms it's sales may definitely be over 3mil on it's own, but mostly at like $20. The anime was a flop. The franchise most likely did not make even close to 200mil in revenue. In profit I would be surprised if it's over 50mil dollars considering that the original game was considered a financial flop and money loss snd the second game was mostly sold for 50 bucks or less.

So $450mil is far out of reach.

About the other part, 4k may have been to low, but that still depends on the number of hours she was expected to work. Did I understand that she is also unionized?

Regardless of that even ignoring her attacks at Jennifer Hale, calling to boycott the game for that is ridiculous and pretending like she owns the character is too. There are tons of people who put way more work into this game than she could have ever dreamed of and they should get their work rewarded.

Acting like she did is not justified by that, since nobody reasonable wouly want to hire her now, since she's proven herself as untrustworthy.

Last edited by Kakadu18 - on 16 October 2022