A big part of why they don’t make money is because there are 10s of thousands more actors than parts. If this was a manufacturing job and you had 5000 people apply for 50 jobs, who is responsible for the people not hired?
There just are not enough parts to support the number of actors in the guild. As it stands now, an actor (not background) only needs to work 21 days at base rate for qualify for a year of medical/etc.
While I really believe actors should be paid a living wage and deserve more residuals - how do you handle 10s of thousand more actors than parts available?
I hope they all go on strike and people realize just how unimportant these people are.
The SAG crowd has an over inflated sense of value to the real world. People can live without them entertaining the masses. We adapt.
They are so blind that they cant see the theaters are empty most days and the cost of movies/entertainment is getting way too expensive for most working class people.
They need to get back to writing and making movies and stop crying about not making the millions they feel entitled to. Most people in the fly over states are struggling to make ends meet and dont care if Hollywood aint making enough money.
They’ve literally gone on strike before. What are you talking about?
We should, because they’re being underpaid and having their careers and livelihoods taken out from underneath them by greedy corporate executives. You know, people like Bobby Kotick.
I hope that everyone that works in any industry that benefits you strikes. Perhaps then you’ll learn the value of the labor that allows you to live the life that you’re able to.
Considering folks are losing their homes and such, the executives don’t care. They aren’t going to budge very much.
This is the age of cheap reality tv and remakes in the movies. Writers and such haven’t been “needed” for 10 to 12 years when we became fine with 5th rate entertainment.
Hello, I see you posted a thread about strikes. The NLRB just changed rules on unionization making it much, much, MUCH easier for workers to unionize! Now, if workers want to vote for unionization and can show the corporate leaders are attempting to interfere, their efforts to unionize go through automatically, haha! Not only, the rule is retroactive so previous efforts, including at companies like Activision/Blizzard, could be up for unionization once again if workers can show leaders were pushing anti-union efforts! It’s great, haha!
Hmm. If someone used my voice without paying me, and they got paid, I would be mad. I see why they would want a strike. They should get royalties, it’s only fair. How much though? I have no idea, I wouldn’t ask for much if I did literally no extra work for it to happen.
They could probably make a forum bot based on my replies, I want 10 cents per post A bot might be equally helpful sometimes. lol
buddy doesn’t realize that the average actor starts off basically working two jobs. You usually don’t make a lot if really anything acting until you get a lucky break.
This is just nonsense. All of us want a game a lot better than pong which is what you’re advocating for here.
The voice actors aren’t the writers or the ones making the final call on which takes make it into the end product.
I would argue the exact opposite of your take. A gameplay that puts itself into the modern day marketplace had better care a heck of a lot into more than just the nuts and bolts and/or the engine of the game. This especially is true of Blizzard and WoW.
While I agree with you partly, I don’t think most of them make millions.
I think many of them have been screwed over by HW & the entertainment industry and are probably due some corrections to the system.
That said, the economy is in a recession which is sliding into a depression so I think we can expect a lot of workers to strike, a lot of job loss, etc…
There’s some hard times ahead. We can get through it but it’s going to be rough for most.
Give it enough time and your job might be one of the “unimportant” ones as well. Actors are stuffy but this stuff is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s likely that AI will take a lot of jobs and not really give back leading to more unemployed people.
That’s part of the issue, the matter of compensation. Take the series Orange is the New Black. That series is still insanely popular, it gets streamed constantly by people. But despite it being streamed constantly, generating millions of dollars in profit for the streaming giants and executives, the actors and actresses that star in the series? They get pennies on the dollar by comparison.
They can just learn to code. Like people gleefully told welders at the prospect of losing their jobs to corporate greed. “Worker solidarity” is a meme and i hope hollywood sinks.
People imagine a utopia where the robots give everyone more of everything but that’s not what happens. People would quite literally rather throw the extra stuff they have in the trash rather than give back to society.
Seems like this is a leverage play. Get the gaming industry to put pressure on the studios.
The strike might not have been the smartest tactical move. They’re dealing with really bad performance where IP’s are getting killed off left and right with products people don’t appear to want and the possible emergence of technologies that can do a better job for less. Not really a position of strength.
Owners are looking at this as way stall and kill off projects and contracts that aren’t performing.
Not that there isn’t a problem with concentration of power, if the wagon makers were as powerful as today’s corporations we’d still be riding around in horse drawn carriages. Unions should provide some checks but they can be as problematic as anything else.
A bot might be equally helpful sometimes. lol