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http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/10/its-official-unionized-video-game-voice-actors-are-on-strike/
I didn't even know they had a union. Apparently they want royalties.
From the article:
"The possibility of a strike has caused a bit of a schism between voice actors and some game developers, most of whom are not unionized themselves and do not receive royalties for their programming, design, and artistic work. As Ubisoft Montreal Creative director Alex Hutchinson put it last year, "If @WilWheaton gets royalties on a game before myself or any of the others who spent years (not weeks) working on it, the system is broken."
The strike applies to games made by the following companies:
I didn't even know they had a union. Apparently they want royalties.
From the article:
"The possibility of a strike has caused a bit of a schism between voice actors and some game developers, most of whom are not unionized themselves and do not receive royalties for their programming, design, and artistic work. As Ubisoft Montreal Creative director Alex Hutchinson put it last year, "If @WilWheaton gets royalties on a game before myself or any of the others who spent years (not weeks) working on it, the system is broken."
The strike applies to games made by the following companies:
- Activision Publishing, Inc.
- Blindlight, LLC
- Corps of Discovery Films
- Disney Character Voices, Inc.
- Electronic Arts Productions, Inc.
- Formosa Interactive, LLC
- Insomniac Games, Inc.
- Interactive Associates, Inc.
- Take 2 Interactive Software
- VoiceWorks Productions, Inc.
- WB Games, Inc.