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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Re:Voice synthesis

[ZephyrXero]

While I agree with most of what you say...you've got to be joking about the Stage Actors right? I mean, I appreciate it myself...but most Americans have never been to anything more than a high school play or something...

Ok ok ok, shut up.

[TheBot]

To all you people who don't even work in the industry or TV/Movies/Music/Games, I don't believe you understand really the whole deal of it. You just go on to say they get paid enough already for doing Voice Acting. Are you a VA? Do you do it for a living? Why are you telling them to get a new job? That is there job. VA's get paid for their performance per hour and thats it. They don't work 40/80 hours a week like programmers. Maybe a day or two and that's it. What they're asking is to be paid an amount per game sold for their talent. If they do a 4 hour day recording their parts for a game, and the game goes on to sell 10 million units, i'd be a bit irked too because I worked on the game and will have only made a basket full of cash compared to the maxed out bank account the producers get. I know, they could've negotiated it, but that isn't always going to work in their favor. It may seem like an afterthought for us, but for them it's how they make a living. I'm not saying I agree with them, but I would say that games that sell millions should give back a little bit to the people who made them get that way. Maybe not like per game, but maybe after so many have sold.