Yeah and thats working a few weeks VS working most of the year though.

If they get paid less, then why arent they getting a regular job instead then? I mean if its all about the money and security? They wont because thats not what they want to do. They want to turn a job you make a few bucks from on the side to one you can make a living from.

Most probably do, at least when they are getting started. I still don't get this idea of punishing them for wanting to make a career out of voice acting. Why do they need to choose between a career they want and job security. Yes, voice acting is very much a calling for those who do it, but that doesn't mean they can't also make a decent living out of it if they are good at what they do.

Nope, I do not know about the VAs and that's the issue. I don't know how many people do either... You have followed them but most people aren't you and don't follow the VAs in games very strongly. Cause if that was the case, when franchises changed VAs, the sales would see a considerable dip if it mattered all that much. But most do not.

I said they aren't as essential as game developers. Yes they do have VA's but the issue is, how many people buy them for the VAs over gameplay? Cause I doubt most do... VA helps sure but more so than the gameplay?

And yea, those games do have VAs but again, I don't see why having mediocre VAs is as bad as having mediocre gameplay. If a game is filled with bugs, has bad gameplay, and etc, then that game will get a lower mark and will be far more disliked than a game with bad VA but checks the gameplay and other elements. 

I mean, I don't get what we are supposed to do if you don't agree to disagree... We have different viewpoints and neither of us are going to convience to other so... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I guess I will just stop replying?

Its not about punishing them. Its about letting them know that this isnt the movie or TV industry. Making publishers pay out royalties to every person who works on a game will just make them focus on their big games. So FPS games and sports games will dominate even more than they already do. It will limit what publishers are willing to make.

@Bold 1:

There are still a lot of people that follow these VA's though. You're now basing "most aren't you", when really I'm talking generally of other people that just happen to follow VA's. I don't follow every single VA known to man, some out there do and some like me follow a few or more. I take it you haven't seen anime conventions or generally comic conventions where VA's tend to show up?. DC Douglas known for Playing Wesker has a fanbase that follows him just for voicing Wesker and then there are those that follow him for the TV shows and movies he's been in, the guy shows up to conventions for fans alike.

@Bolded2:

See now we're getting to the point where you're saying VA's don't matter since sales don't dip because of them. You said before that you didn't say they weren't important, but say they aren't essential and now in terms of sales, why not just say they aren't important flat out?, because you've now got 2 over 1 in terms of against than for now.

You can stop replying if you want, but you're not really moving from your general stance and thus you aren't going to learn from what was said (because we've had a repeat of the they do/they don't matter for the final time so far with no difference in outcome).

So basically saying your skills aren't worth enough for us to actually pay you decent money to use them. The only ones who actually get anything out of this are the publishers, in an industry that has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last several decades. This isn't the movie or TV industry, yes. It's still pretty much equal to them in terms of value at this point. Yet somehow people who work in the video game industry are just supposed to settle for less for what is often the same amount of work. The raise in pay and unionizing hasn't stopped the movie or TV industry from making smaller scale projects, I don't see why it would here.

I think I will take my chances tyvm.

Gop for it. But if you don't know, then I'd say don't step in.