Even then, if it were four, 4 hour days like the first Bayonetta that'd mean she would be owed $4,166 according to the pay-schedule. And while it might be less or more depending on the hours it takes, it would make sense they'd estimate based on the last game. Once the game releases we'll know for sure if the line-count is similar. But yeah, it would be really interesting to know what the initial offer was. Hopefully somebody asks her and she responds. 

I guess I could add to my earlier comment that I think video game voice actors in general deserve better benefits and compensation for the work they do than what the reality today is. The offer Taylor received is pathetic, and people who use their talents to bring some of the most iconic characters in video games to life should be given more respect. There are countless games I've played over the years where the impact of the story, characters, or a specific moment would have been far lesser had they not featured talented actors giving them the emotional gravitas with their voices.

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.

Agreed.  I would love to be a charter captain out on the water all day, but the pay is crap so I took a different career path, one that pays far better. 

I keep seeing the commentary about "breaking the NDA." Did she break an NDA? In the United States discussing one's compensation or employment contract offers is a protected legal right that NDA's can rarely infringe upon. Is this different in the U.K? 

Entitled bitch. My job is a harder than hers, it requires way more skills than hers, it took me a long time to acquire the set of skills I have now to actually be able to do what I do and I make no where near 250 dollars an hour. I don't even like Bayonetta, but now I consider buying the game because of her.

I think the only problem (that haven't been fully answered yet) is perhaps the initial offer was much lower than even the amount she was paid for Bayoneta 1, and that sure would make her not happy and when asking for what she though she was worthy the counter propose was standard payment for regular char, and what made she go out and say was she thinking she was wronged on PG messaging. But yes no real proof given so we can't fully agree with her or PG.

So I've been reading on how Japanese licensers often attempt to ignore or skirt Sagaftra rules in anime and game dubs.

Wondering if her initial low-ball offer was a case of that, and then Kamiya looked into it and that is why they raised it to $4,000.

She is in the U.K equity union too and their negotiated rates are £300 per hour in a standard game with the first hour paid at £600.

https://www.equity.org.uk/news/2021/december/uks-first-ever-agreement-for-voice-artists-engaged-on-video-game-recordings/#:~:text=Minimum%20fees%20are%20set%20according,(under%20%C2%A30.5m).

That's nearly $5,700 for 16 hours. 

If the Bayonetta script ends up being similar in size, so much for the idea she's been offered "market rate."

Never seem any right wing, no matter how extreme, saying that the fair wage is decided solely by employer. At most I have seem they say "if you think the wage is bad don't accept the work and look for another one", and this based on free market and finite resources as if company only pay the bare minimum they will only get the worse employees as his competitors will pay a little more to get the more talented. But that is besides the point.

It just seems klxver doesn't understand the difference between being full time employee that gets his Weekly wage (based on a year wage), that can be or not enough - another discussion -, and work you hire a specialist for a short time and those usually are much much higher in cost per hour but a lot lower on yearly cost. The basic idea is that most of those specialists won't be working full time all year (if they did that VA would be making 4k*50 = 200k a year, which is more than 4 times the average you pointed). Very few VAs will be fully occupied (and those certainly would be much more than 4k a week of payment).

It is very similar to other services you hire. When you hire a plumber you won't pay 15 USD/h of the work he do, or perhaps 5 USD to solve your issue as if you would fraction the minimum wage, nope they are going to request you a minimum fee plus a hourly fee that is much higher than weekly based wages.

That is a good analogy. My roommate is a painting contractor. When he bids a job he doesn't know exactly how long it will take. Sometimes he can make as much as $200 /hr, but that's mostly the case when he works only a few hours on the job. The end result is what the customer pays for, not how long it takes him to get there. 

Same thing here with VA's. A game is a full package that is greater than the sum of its parts. A VA might contribute very little in time, but they contribute quite a bit in value, especially in cinematic games like Bayonetta. 

People here are saying, "I don't care about VA's", but I doubt the first cutscene of the first Bayonetta game would've pulled people in if everything was text boxes or bland monotone voices from development staff.