oh dear, not disclosing the companies is screaming that they are small and irrelevant

to be honest i had completely forgotten about this, im sure your average youtuber would kill their families to do your job for half what you are paid and plenty of immigrants to do it for far less (we are not doing white characters anymore anyway, the accent is fine, see Mass Effect Andromeda, diversity is our strength), sooooo..... good luck with that

im sure your average youtuber would kill their families to do your job for half what you are paid and plenty of immigrants to do it for far less

A lot of indie companies actually do this. I think they did something similar with like Freedom Planet.

Oh, i know, and tell you what, they sound better than what known tv/movie actors paid millions phone in for many AAA games, always a very efficient use of your budget, Double Fine knows

Nintendo does it too.

HINT: Search YouTube for The bedfellows and see if you can recognize the voices.

In summary, Performance Matters did not matter a single whit. I will seriously consider giving any company that continues to use SAG-AFTRA union employment a second thought about buying games from at least as far as the US domestic market is concerned. I'm [my face is] long-since tired of being dragged into shenanigans that were none of my concern in the first place. Grown people should be able to resolve their circumstances without needing a cheerleading squad.

SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris

Hang on - the same Gabrielle Carteris that played the 30-year old teenager on the original 90210?

Good to see SAG-AFTRA's represented by the cream of Hollywood, there.

Although in all fairness, she does seem to have done a fair bit of video game and animation voice work since.

I dont want any more blah blah blah in my games. There i said it.

Dumb question coming from someone who is not a Yankee...

Is it true that participation on unions are mandatory in the US ?

I heard that many teachers are forced to pay the teacher's union despite not wanting to participate. I wonder if SAG is the same.

Today, only about 6% of workers in the U.S. are union members. By law, a majority of employees have to vote for establishing a union in order for one to be present. Since unions require payment of dues, there has to be a serious reason for workers to desire a union. In the case of the video game industry there were abuses of employees that made union membership their choice.

In the case of the video game industry there were abuses of employees that made union membership their choice.

For the voice actors, to be exact. There's still no union for the standard employees (most of whom work on contractual basis) and a lot of them are leery about unionizing (mostly because programmers get the most safety net and don't really have much of a reason to unionize).

That's a good point, Billy. Unionizing is a tough decision and, historically, it is a last resort when employers are just refusing to consider the safety and/or job needs of their employees.

It depends on what State you live in. Just over half have what are called right-to-work-laws, which basically mean that you don't have to join a union.

Thank you, now it's all much clearer to me.

By the way, just did a quick check on which states these laws are present... it seems to be only the more libertarian ones. The SJW Hive Infestation states seems to be the ones that force you to pay the union.

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>Call of Duty
When they just pick whatever made the most money, it just shows they have no idea about the market. Especially CoD is primarily sold due to multiplayer gameplay, not really due to 'good acting' in singleplayer campaigns. At least pick games like GTA, SW:TOR or hell, even Skyrim, where acting is more important, to make a point.

I get that this is a minor point to complain about, but I just expect them to at least know about videogames when they make demands that can have negative impact on not just publishers, studios, programmers that have a huge workload and get laid off regularly after successfully shipping a game, but also on the consumer because it could again lead to raised prices of games.

Triple AAA already decided that standard prices are between 60-70€, when they were 40-50€ a few years ago. Games are sold like hot bread just due to hype. Studios become lazy and rush projects, because they know their brand will carry them.