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- FIash Mob #5678 ( @FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ) 122•10 months ago
Good.
One of my good friends was one of the voices on LA Noire years ago and gets zero residuals from it. It’s maddening.
- magikmw ( @magikmw@lemm.ee ) 14•10 months ago
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- ampersandrew ( @ampersandrew@kbin.social ) 33•10 months ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but since this strike is against certain companies and not some entity that represents the entire industry like it does for movies and television, that means that other individual companies who come to an agreement can still hire these people, right? If so…imagine if we had that in movies and television.
- Zalack ( @Zalack@startrek.website ) 51•10 months ago
We do. A24, for instance, is still making a couple movies by agreeing to work under the proposed terms by SAG. As far as I know, no one else has made such agreements yet. The more of such exceptions that get made, the weaker the AMPTP’s position will get.
- ram ( @ram@lemmy.ca ) English32•10 months ago
Dropout.tv
(formerly CollegeHumour) is also an unstruck company.- Discola ( @Discola@lemm.ee ) 8•10 months ago
One more reason to love dropout!
- EssentialCoffee ( @EssentialCoffee@midwest.social ) English3•10 months ago
Because they have a different contract for work not covered by the current strike? That seems kind of a weird take, especially since they thought the strike did apply to them originally and they shut down for several weeks until the lawyers got together and said, oh no, you have a different type of agreement.
It’s not like they changed or updated their contract to become exempt. SAG just went, oh, your business doesn’t fall into the terms of the strike so you don’t have to strike with the rest of us.
- Zalack ( @Zalack@startrek.website ) 6•10 months ago
I didn’t know that! I just subbed to their service for Make Some Noise so I kind of feel better about shelling out for it now.
- ampersandrew ( @ampersandrew@kbin.social ) 9•10 months ago
Oh, I see. I thought all of Hollywood was AMPTP and that’s why we can’t have nice things like DRM-free movie purchases.
- gaael ( @gaael@beehaw.org ) 22•10 months ago
I never wondered about the conditions of videogames workers, but I’m really happy that they get better thanks to this movement !
- coyotino [he/him] ( @theangriestbird@beehaw.org ) English18•10 months ago
It’s 10x worse than whatever you’re imagining.
- Bipta ( @Bipta@kbin.social ) 9•10 months ago
No guarantee anything gets better yet.
- gregorum ( @gregorum@lemm.ee ) English2•10 months ago
And there’s no reason to think it will
- CurlyWurlies4All ( @CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net ) English2•10 months ago
Oh I can provide context with an entertaining and informative video!
https://youtu.be/DN-Hv3pnVz0?si=y11gki97RBZ5paQa
Shout out to Matt McMuscles who makes these. What a champ.
- gaael ( @gaael@beehaw.org ) 2•9 months ago
Thanks for sharing ! Looks like the usual “small white male feeling powerful because he’s the boss” bullshit more than a problem specific to the gaming industry.
Anyway, unionizing should protect them better from these kind of abuse, which is good :)
- blanketswithsmallpox ( @blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social ) 18•10 months ago
Either everyone needs to get royalties or nobody does.
Pay your voice actors right the first time instead of paying them shit per line. Or if your video game becomes an astounding success, all 1,000 people get a slice of that 100,000,000 million it made in sales via residuals. A cool $100,000 for everyone!
Don’t forget to advocate for yourself even if you have a union. Nobody ever gets paid more by saying nothing.
- lemonadebunny ( @lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca ) аҧсуа бызшәа1•10 months ago
or nobody does
Be careful, Disney might like that idea
- blanketswithsmallpox ( @blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social ) 2•10 months ago
Great. Their CEO can make $2,000,000 / year and the rest $100,000 capping their maximum pay at 20x their lowest paid employee.
- Kirkkh ( @Kirkkh@lemm.ee ) 8•10 months ago
SAG is going be in for a shock when they realize movie executives are kittens compared to a gaming exec.
- AnarchistArtificer ( @AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ) 4•10 months ago
How so?
- PenguinTD ( @PenguinTD@lemmy.ca ) English6•10 months ago
I wonder how many are actually in union to gain that bargain power?
- there1snospoon ( @there1snospoon@ttrpg.network ) 10•10 months ago
I know most if not all of the cast of Critical Role (who are voice actors for many video games) are members. Ashley Johnson is the voice of Ellie for TLoU, so if they’re working on TLoU3, they’ll likely have to delay it.
- PenguinTD ( @PenguinTD@lemmy.ca ) English5•10 months ago
I was hoping this extends to many other departments.
- ram ( @ram@lemmy.ca ) English4•10 months ago
It doesn’t, unfortunately. Programmers, animators, concept artists, designers, each need to unionize in order to leverage collective action grants at the bargaining table. With last week’s decision by the NLRB though, it’s certain to be easier than ever to get unionized. Still, the amount of coordination it gets to even petition the NLRB to have your union recognized is no small feat. Just now it’ll be that much more difficult to bust a union election
- NuPNuA ( @NuPNuA@lemm.ee ) 1•10 months ago
Wasn’t there a threat of a game VA strike a few years ago and it turned out that some of the bigger names like Troy Baker aren’t in the Union?0