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Video Game Actors Say They Don't Get Their Due
Dekortage writes "The New York Times reports today about Michael Hollick, the actor who provided the voice of Niko Bellic in Grand Theft Auto IV. Although the game has made more than $600 million in sales for Rockstar Games, Hollick earns nothing beyond the original $100K he was paid. If this was television, film, or radio, Hollick and the other GTA actors could have made millions by now. Hollick says, 'I don't blame Rockstar. I blame our union for not having the agreements in place to protect the creative people who drive the sales of these games. Yes, the technology is important, but it's the human performances within them that people really connect to, and I hope actors will get more respect for the work they do within those technologies.' Is it time for video game actors to be treated as well as those in other mediums?"
$100k? How can you expect anyone to live on that? Where's the union when you need it the most?
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Fat short italian plumber dresses in red and stages protest in front of Nintendo office in Rome to claim unpaid billions.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
That first Tauren actor that Blizzard hired only received 3 coppers and a stack of Peacebloom for a snack.
He had better be careful. Rockstar might just decide to kill him and get their money back.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I bought Portal for Mike Patton.