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SAG To Reconsider Industry Offer
GameInformer has details on a special meeting of the board that the Screen Actor's Guild is putting together. From the article: "When the NEC rejected the tentative contract earlier this week, we said we'd explore all our remaining options...Since then, we have received feedback from enough of our membership to conclude that this matter must be brought before the full board for its consideration."
Let them make their own games. They have have the big name voices, let them produce the games and outsource the programming, art, design and everything else that goes into it.
Any "game company" that enters into an agreement like this is on exactly the same footing as a movie company that pays $20million for a bankable star and $2million for the movie.
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There are plenty of people out there with great voices that are willing to work and make money.
Who really cares if Joe Pantaleone (sp) does a great job voicing a game, or someone else does a great job voicing a game? As long as its good, I dont give a rat's ass.
Actors, and now voice actors it seems, have always thought they were important and worth all the money they make. In the case of voice actors, they can be replaced.
How many games prominently display Starring David Hayter on the front of the case? I know they include him in the movie-like opening credits, but that is not advertising like when you see SANDLER... ROCK... The Longest Yard on a commercial, movie poster, or dvd case.
Theyre selling the actors and then the product. Games havent fallen down that pitfall yet, so its not too late to snub the SAG and get some new voice actors. Sure it would suck to have a different-sounding Solid Snake, but I dont think it would disrupt my life enough to actually matter.