Voice Actors Protest at E3

Thought it wasn't really covered by any of the news sites, there were apparently several protests by voice actors at this year's E3. ShackNews has a piece on the under-reported event. From the article: "To deny working-class performers their fair share of the tremendous profits their labor helps to generate is illogical, unreasonable and unjust...It is simply shortsighted to believe that consumers don't care about the artistic quality of the characters."

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Programmer residuals in the early 80's

[ClosedSource]

Just before the first video game crash in the 80's, Mattel Electronics agreed to pay programmers a small fee for each cartridge sold. Alas, they were out of business before they paid out any (much?) money.

Re:Voice synthesis

[zentinal]

Indeed. These popular, sold out shows are the ones performed by, wait for it, big name movie actors.

http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/hot.htm/

• 1 Wicked - Joel Grey was the bigges star of the show, and he's gone
• 2 Spamalot - Chock'a'block with stars. Who knows how it will do when they leave?
• 3 700 Sundays - Billy Crystal
• 4 All Shook Up - No big name movie stars I can find
• 5 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - John Lithgow and a bunch of others
• 6 Movin' Out - No big name movie stars I can find
• 7 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Kathleen Turner and a bunch of others
• 8 The Phantom of the Opera - No big name movie stars I can find
• 9 Hairspray - No big name movie stars I can find
• 10 The Lion King - No big name movie stars I can find

All in all, I can see how having a film star helps in the beginning, but it looks like you've overstated your case by a huge margin, to the point where it looks demonstrably false.