SAG-AFTRA Gears Up For Possible Strike Against Video Game Industry

>The 10 companies facing a possible strike are:
Activision Productions Inc.,
Blindlight LLC,
Disney Character Voices Inc.,
Electronic Arts Productions Inc.,
Epic Games, Inc.,
Formosa Interactive LLC,
Insomniac Games Inc.,
Take 2 Productions Inc.,
VoiceWorks Productions Inc.,
WB Games Inc.

https://deadline.com/2023/09/sag-aftra-possible-strike-video-game-companies-1235533458/

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  1. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing of value will be lost.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Sony and Xbox will be losing games if this goes through

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        And that's a good thing.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        what games, where

  2. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    As a PC gamer this would never effect me so.. go for it

  3. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Based. I will always support people fighting for better conditions

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Then why do you actively fight against economic freedom and support government intervention and central banking.
      have a nice day bootlicker

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        NTA but I agree with him and I don't support those things you listed. Now what?

  4. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Activision
    one game
    >Blindlight LLC,
    who?
    >Disney Character Voices Inc.,
    who?
    >Electronic Arts Productions Inc.,
    good
    >Epic Games, Inc.,
    good
    >Formosa Interactive LLC,
    who
    >Insomniac Games Inc.,
    good
    >Take 2 Productions Inc.,
    good
    >VoiceWorks Productions Inc.,
    who?
    >WB Games Inc.
    who

  5. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dunno what the point would be. Most games don't really have very much voice acting and development times are so long they can do the recordings at any time.

  6. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >All this westoid crap
    And we care because.....?

  7. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The only thing that will happen is that games will go back to using talent off the street like last time they tried this shit and the street talent was actually better than the supposed professionals because VA work is nothing but a nepotistic club

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      A lot worse could happen than losing access to overused voices, honestly
      Tales games have caught fire before for using retired TV actors, children, 'soundalikes' who are just the voice actor under an alias, and newgrounds VAs, but they've always been fine dubs

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >and newgrounds VAs
        Now I wish that Stamper wasn't a strung out druggie so he could be an butthole mage in a JRPG.

  8. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Unions are cancerous labor cartels that benefit a tiny elite of union members at the expense of the working class and I'm tired of pretending they aren't.

  9. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >No Japanese developers
    >No Ubisoft
    >No console makers
    Wow it's even more irrelevant than I thought

  10. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >no more Debra Wilson
    things are looking up, boys

  11. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Meanwhile in the Indie side of vidiya

  12. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >No Sony
    worthless. I want them to suffer after what they did to Japan Studio.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      They're potentially gonna strike at Insomniac Games which is a Sony owned studio, let's hope this causes a ripple effect and people strike Naughty Dog and Guerrilla Games

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Guerrilla Games

        They're located in Europe. SAG has no power there.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          The recent One Piece live action is based in South Africa and they're also SAG-AFTRA. I was told they have branches around the globe.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            One Piece uses SAG because it was entirely funded by Netflix.

  13. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    support video game voice actors union or else, Yongyea will voice all of the MCs in upcoming video games

  14. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Companies outsource their work to Japan and Korea.

    Nice strike bro.

  15. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Finally, a good strike

  16. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing's gonna happen because video games don't rely on stars for either development or to sell units. Often times voice acting is the last thing added to these games so there won't be any disruptions in workflow.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Nothing's gonna happen because video games don't rely on stars for either development or to sell units
      Call of Duty
      Cyberpunk
      GTA
      Death Stranding
      Until Dawn
      Beyond Two Souls
      Arkham Asylum

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why are you listing games that already exist?

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          are you pretending to be moronic or do you genuinely not understand the point

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >video games don't rely on stars for either development or to sell units
      2k wouldn't sell if the players were John Bryant and Joe O'Neal.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Sport stars are not actors.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          They're famous figures that draw in a particular niche crowd to buy their games even if they're not gamers in the nerdiest sense of the word

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            I don't think they give a shit about the actors strike.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah, just disagreeing that video games don't rely on famous people to sell, because they do.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Nothing's gonna happen because video games don't rely on stars for either development or to sell units
      We have Hollywood actors in video games and they are a big selling point to normalgays.

  17. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Activision
    They already talk at 1 word per minute in wow cinematics what more do they want?

  18. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    good
    stay on strike forever
    take all the other western media people with you

  19. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Considering most of these have studios in Canada/UK they can probably bypass strikes if things start to slow down too much

  20. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I hope it kills the ~~*woke*~~ video games industry as a whole

  21. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >people who make all there money doing voices
    >Stop working and hope AI does not take over
    This is comedy of the highest order
    All one of these voce actors needs to do is license there voice to AI and just roll in the money from it.
    Such an easy solution to do nothing and make money while still can.
    Before AI is just doing it on its own.

  22. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >voice acting is now an procedurally generated gibberish

    that's a win for me

  23. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Well it's a good thing I have a massive backlog thanks to all the games this year I still haven't gotten through. If no games at all come out next year I can manage.

  24. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is this about the voice actors? I hope they don't bend down to these homosexuals, show them the middle finger like they deserve it.

  25. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Good, more companies need to use AI.

  26. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Not my problem, no good games there and striking is a good trend for society at large

  27. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    They can shit on AI all they want, but what they really should blame is the Me Too movement, gamegate, and all that other leftist cancelling bullshit. AI cannot be canceled, which is the real reason why companies are using it.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I've had a very big argument with an artist friend about AI. He thinks that AI should never enter the entertainment industry, to which I said that humans just gotta be better. Then he says that the low level artists will lose their jobs, to which I said they lose their jobs to other humans even before AI was there. If anything, the advent of AI means that artists must up their game, and he got so mad that he said I didn't understand the plight of the movie industry. I said I did, it's why most movies nowadays have trash writing not just video games.

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