Thanks for the detailed reply. Trying to get informed on this topic as opposed to furiously mashing my keys like most people seem to be doing and a lot of your posts have been helpful.

I’ve followed your posts in the other thread. You seem to be in the industry as opposed to half the people here talking out their ass. I keep seeing the idea of royalties come up now. Can you tell me if Platinum as the developer is even in a position to offer something like this? Are people even attacking the right…

Hale has nothing to do with this issue.  She was offered a job and took it, she didn’t rob anyone.  Anyone giving her any grief is a typical troll.

Well said. I would totally buy that Platinum offered so little to allow everyone to save face while taking for granted that everyone would understand the implications of the offer.

Hale’s advocacy for VA worker rights can literally speak for itself. She’s been a staunch supporter of fighting for fair pay and protecting voice actors across the board. She absolutely doesn’t need the work, and there’s no way they’re paying her peanuts, and I can’t see any reason why they would tell her the…

No one is talking about any of this. In every post I see it’s all about Taylor getting screwed. I’ve seen some of her posts and they’re it great, especially if she’s supposed to be playing a strong female character.

I have heard several Devil’s Advocate arguments that are causing me to reexamine (note: not fully reverse) my sympathies for Hellena Taylor.

That is kind of in line with what I’m thinking too. I would not be surprised at all that she was getting the lower side of the pay scale. She’s not really a recognizable name, which is absolutely not her fault. It just strikes me as a company paying the least they can get away with and then an actor trying to use…

I bristle with the notion that a character ‘belongs’ to a singular actress, especially because Hellena Taylor’s performance isn’t anything to write home about. She’s not DiMaggio doing Bender, that’s sure.

Oh please. This woman is being disingenuous at best. $4000 wasn’t a serious offer, she was fired but likely had the right to first refusal. Platinum didn’t want to work with her and it wasn’t about the money.

Sunk cost fallacy.  If they go back to the drawing board this VP is getting fired.  

Well yeah. It’s the problem with every corporation that’s run by a cult of personality. In this case, Suckerberg has weighed in with the holy gospel of Meta that the Metaverse is gonna be the next big thing. In reality, there are likely many, many competent managers at Facebook that have instantly understood that the…

I’m extremely mid-level leadership at my company and have zero management training (basically just stumbled up the ladder through good old basic competence), and even I know the correct response to “even the devs hate our product” is “let’s use this as an opportunity to improve the product” and not “the product is…

Not to mention it’s presumably a good exercise for updating their engine. Naughty Dog did the same thing with TLOU1 on PS4.

For real. The absurdity of this take is staggering lol - as if one studio working on something precludes another from doing another thing. 

I’m mainly referring to your idea that “Legally obtained” somehow absolves any shadiness or lapse in morality on your part regardless of how it screws over devs. But hey keep defending key resellers.

Keep proving my point :D

Its fun watching people work overtime to explain why they aren’t pieces of shit.

Think I’ve found the people who sold review codes.

She was originally born a male with her twin brother, but same sex twins were a bad omen in their village to the point they usually made parents kill one or put one up for adoption, so her parents forced her to be a girl, raised her up as one, etc. She turned against this and strove to prove they were a man. (But for…