Part of the reason Hamill wants to stop doing Joker is because the voice is too taxing for him to do nowadays.

Video games are part of a capitalist society. Something that draws sales merits better compensation. At the very least performers like Steven Ogg deserve residuals because their performance helped push a game from great to amazing.

Again: it. is. not. a. zero. sum. game.

The union does not limit voice work to those five people. The casting directors and gaming companies are responsible for auditioning and hiring voice actors. They are the people who hire the same actors over and over again.

Easiest, cushiest gig in all of video games? Ha. The grass is always greener. After you audition for 20+ video games, for free, for an entire year, get two callbacks, then book ONE small role for which you get compensated around $900 (now $1800) for, then consider if this is an easy, cushy gig.

Then you’ve never done vocal work in your life. Screaming, grunting, growling, grovelling, yelling, shrieking, take after take after take after take... and then you need your butter smooth voice in five minutes for the next take? Are you seriously telling me you can’t imagine a voice actor having to record hundreds of…

Well, why is this bonus being framed as a “only one group can have it and no one else” mentality? I feel like this is an erroneous and dangerous mindset for us to get into (as that's only pitting us against each other). Devs absolutely have it shitty, and they deserve better. However, SAG-AFTRA is not their union and…

Even if you don’t permanently damage your voice, if you go hoarse, you can’t work. It might just be a few days or a week, but you have to pass on jobs and lose money. The employer is responsible for that.

Yes so easy that the incredibly respected real world Actor Stephen Merchant said the voice work for Wheatley was so utterly exhausting he’d NEVER do another video game ever again.

I’m not sure what High level dev team you work for but from GTA 5 took 3 YEARS to film.

Gotta love it, no matter WHAT the job there’s…

How dare anyone demand equitable pay for a job performed?

How. Goddamn. Dare. They.

Better pirate everything to teach those horrible corporations a lesson, by gum!

But the difference in pay is also reflected in your own comment. They got paid for the day while you got paid a salary. You had more security in terms of having steady pay while they worked gig to gig. That type of work, like modeling, calls for higher pay due to their uncertainty (and other costs like paying their…

It’s not a zero sum game, dumbass. Devs can and should be unionized, and you should stop trying to demonize SAG-AFTRA with your passive aggressive crap. EVERYONE that works on a game should be fairly compensated. To imply that shooting an extra few hundred bucks at the voice talents jeapordizes this possibility for…

It says right there in the article: they want better protections for roles that may damage their voice (repeated screaming), better delineation of roles, and performance bonuses (I’m unsure if video games currently give residuals? I’m only more familiar with on-camera residual rules). They are not unreasonable things…

It’s not so much how much of the script has you actually yelling, as so much the recording process. Each line is never done in just one take, as in they say the line and that’s it move on to the next. They gotta repeat the lines over and over, so those few screaming lines become amplified through the multiple takes…

If its so cushy, why don’t you do it?

They don’t “get” a union, they “form” a union.

No it’s not. That’s the most damaging part of voice acting. Their jobs literally depend on their vocal cords. They want to have a safety net in place. It’s one of the most logical of their demands, really.

They say the only thing easier than voiceover work is directing voiceover work. And you should clarify that you were involved with the directing, design and writing of three, million unit selling games, because right now you sound like an asshole.

Nobody “gets” a union. You fight for it.

Sure. I’d ask you to give me a name and a game list, but that can easily be made up.
Sorry if you really were, and really have; but I find it impossible to believe anybody on message boards.