What Taylor should have absolutely done - when she was breaking the NDA anyway - is reveal the amount of work that she was supposed to do. Without doing that, the entire discussion here is based on the assumption that Taylor would have had at minimum just as much work as in the previous two games. I can't help but be suspicious when someone breaks an NDA, but at the same time withholds such crucial information.
It's not hard to imagine a situation where a game does a plot twist and the supposed main character then takes a backseat, making room for a new playable character that takes the spotlight. Something like that has happened before in gaming. I have no idea if something like this occurs in Bayonetta 3, but likewise, nobody else knows for sure either. Another possibility is that main character has more screentime as a younger or older version of themself and the development decided that they wanted this different age to sound different, resulting in the hiring of a different voice actor.
When I first posted in this thread, I hadn't read the linked article and simply assumed that she is entitled. Now that I've read the article, I can safely say that she is entitled. When someone complains about the working conditions and pay of a high paid position in gaming - it's blatantly obvious that voice actors get more dollars per hour than the majority of the other workforce involved in video games - talks about critical thinking and then forgets about all the crunch on the developers' side and the deplorable situations in console manufacturing, then asks for the boycott of a video game because of who got hired as a voice actor and the gulf between legality and morality in the video game business... holy cow, is this incredibly selfish. Especially because it's so oblivious to the fact that the majority of video game consumers are people who get paid a lot less than voice actors in their own job.
Yeah, she's not going to see a lot of sympathy. And rightly so. "Please boycott the game you've been looking forward to for years and donate the money you would have spent on the game to a charity instead. Do it because one voice actress thinks that she should have got paid more."
To top this all off, the final piece of the puzzle is that her alleged replacement is a higher regarded voice actress. That's not exactly the situation where observers will assume that money was at the core of this whole issue.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
