You think you can record an entire main character’s audio lines in a week?

1: 8-9 figures is the budget of the title. It’s a AAA title, after all, even for Nintendo that’s going to be at least in the mid 8-figures.

“We held auditions to cast the new voice of Bayonetta and offered the role to Jennifer Hale, whom we felt was a good match for the character,”

I bought Bayonetta 2 on launch and quickly became one of the most fun games I had played.

So basically you're asking us to ignore this woman's problem with people basically taking food off her table... Despite nobody saying that she did anything wrong or giving a reasonable explanation why they went another way despite her being established in the role? Dude, fuck off.

To be silent is to be complicit in her own undervaluing. Will some jags label her difficult? Yep, and she won’t work with those difficult jags saving herself future headaches. There will also be people who admire her taking a stand and demanding to be paid what she is worth and will want to work with somebody with…

I think its safe to say that the pay for the most important character in a game with an 8-9 figure budget should probably be more than a single entry-level QA tester will make working on the game for 2-3 months.

I don’t know what the average pay for a job like this is in the industry, but I know I make more money that this job was apparently set to pay in a month, and I bet the role takes a lot longer than that to finish for a VA. If this is a par offer, it’s absolutely unreal.

Props to the guy for commiting to this just to prove a redditor wrong, lol.

Every fanbase has bots

Oh no, Snyder forced a giant corporation to fund his cut of Justice League. /s

WB loves calling Ray Fisher a liar and a puppet of Snyder huh.

“If the rest of the cast felt that way, they wouldn’t have agreed to come back.”

DiMaggio doesn’t have a right to speak for them by saying he thinks the whole cast is underpaid. That’s insulting.

This take is reminiscent of those anti-union videos they made us watch at my retail gig. “Advocating for higher wages for everyone is an insult to your fellow workers who are (outwardly, anyway) content to work for less! Why do you have to sow discord in our happy corporate family?”

I don’t think he’s implying that West and Sagal undervalue their work, I think he’s pointing out that the industry underpays voice actors as a whole (which it absolutely does.)

Saying he thinks the entire cast is underpaid is not “speaking for them.” That’s an opinion on industry practices; he’s not directly commenting on the other castmembers’ decisions to sign on (at least not here), and while there is room to infer, it’s still much more inference than implication. Your comment comes…

Sure he does. People take way less than their labor is actually worth all the time, it’s one of the big issues of our time and part of the whole minimum wage conversation. It’s not insulting to say that they should be paid more, it’s insulting that they don’t get paid fair wages from the jump, even if they’re…

Just an FYI, there’s also currently a big negotiation going on right now with the Animation Guild and the AMPTP. Voice actors aren’t part of the Animation Guild BUT more and more folks have been low-key throwing their support behind them. I don’t know if John’s holdout is part of that, but there are other behind the…