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NEWS: Bayonetta Voice Actress Calls For Boycott of Bayonetta 3; Cites Poor Pay From Platinum Games

I mean I think it's pretty obvious, she wants people to know how messed up the treatment of voice actors is. She might not have said anything much before because she was afraid of breaking her NDA but as she said in the video, she's got little to lose.

Even if she says that if she violates the NDA if it’s still in effect and she gets taken to court and loses she’s screwed monetarily depending on the damages.

. With Hellena, I don't see a path forward. She torched her career in the industry, and the only thing I'm left thinking at the end of the day is that Platinum hurt her, so she wants to hurt them back. Which is a valid feeling, it's just... Nothing's going to change from this.

flamemasterelan wrote:

. With Hellena, I don't see a path forward. She torched her career in the industry, and the only thing I'm left thinking at the end of the day is that Platinum hurt her, so she wants to hurt them back. Which is a valid feeling, it's just... Nothing's going to change from this.

That's a pretty nihilistic take on things. I mean, you're acting as if no one's going to react to this when that's already provably false if you even take the slightest look at reactions from people around the internet. Will it get her back into Bayo 3? Almost definitely not. Will it torch her career? Possibly.

But will things in the industry change? Only if people act like this and totally ignore what's going on. People speaking up about problems is how change starts and hopefully stories like this or McCarley's can get that ball rolling.

On one hand, I support Taylor in getting a better payment and transparent treatment from PlatinumGames.

On the other hand, her comments towards Jennifer makes me slightly dillute my sympathy for her. It reeks of entitlement, like she owns the character even though it's not always that way.

Ryuji-Dono wrote:

On one hand, I support Taylor in getting a better payment and transparent treatment from PlatinumGames. On the other hand, her comments towards Jennifer makes me slightly dillute my sympathy for her. It reeks of entitlement, like she owns the character even though it's not always that way.

Well… David Hayter voiced Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid games for years, and many people prefer his performance over Kiefer Sutherland. Would Hayter being disappointed by the recast count as him being entitled to the character? He still does the voice at cons and enjoys MGS fan-art and such. I can bet that he probably would have taken Helena’s stance if Kojima Productions/Konami decided to shaft him like that during the release of one of the 2000s-era MGS games.

Dr. Wily wrote:

flamemasterelan wrote: . With Hellena, I don't see a path forward. She torched her career in the industry, and the only thing I'm left thinking at the end of the day is that Platinum hurt her, so she wants to hurt them back. Which is a valid feeling, it's just... Nothing's going to change from this. That's a pretty nihilistic take on things. I mean, you're acting as if no one's going to react to this when that's already provably false if you even take the slightest look at reactions from people around the internet. Will it get her back into Bayo 3? Almost definitely not. Will it torch her career? Possibly. But will things in the industry change? Only if people act like this and totally ignore what's going on. People speaking up about problems is how change starts and hopefully stories like this or McCarley's can get that ball rolling.

The problem is the lack of information. You can say $4000 isn't a lot, but we have no context regarding how much voice actors usually make. What was she paid for the last two games, and how many hours of work would this have been?

We can't have change if we don't have a good understanding of the problem first.

On the other hand, her comments towards Jennifer makes me slightly dillute my sympathy for her. It reeks of entitlement, like she owns the character even though it's not always that way.

Vee-Tee wrote:

Ryuji-Dono wrote: On one hand, I support Taylor in getting a better payment and transparent treatment from PlatinumGames. On the other hand, her comments towards Jennifer makes me slightly dillute my sympathy for her. It reeks of entitlement, like she owns the character even though it's not always that way. Well… David Hayter voiced Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid games for years, and many people prefer his performance over Kiefer Sutherland. Would Hayter being disappointed by the recast count as him being entitled to the character? He still does the voice at cons and enjoys MGS fan-art and such. I can bet that he probably would have taken Helena’s stance if Kojima Productions/Konami decided to shaft him like that during the release of one of the 2000s-era MGS games.

Yeah, but I haven't heard of David Hayter downright disavowing Kiefer as the voice as far as I'm concerned.

“It was annoying to me, because I thought that I had given a lot to the series and really helped promote it. At the same time, I genuinely feel that the run I had as Snake was remarkable. If you get that once in your career, that’s amazing. I don’t have any ill will toward Kiefer Sutherland or anything like that. The whole thing could have been handled better and a little more respectfully, but I’m not going to cry about it.”

“I was so annoyed by the Metal Gear V debacle, and people said, ‘Are you gonna play the game?' Yeah. That’ll be 60 hours of humiliation that I can’t get to. I haven’t played the latest two iterations, because it’s just too painful.

Ryuji-Dono wrote:

On the other hand, her comments towards Jennifer makes me slightly dillute my sympathy for her. It reeks of entitlement, like she owns the character even though it's not always that way.

On the other hand Jennifer has been liking Kamiya's tweets trashing on Taylor, so Jennifer is clearly no angel.

On the other hand, her comments towards Jennifer makes me slightly dillute my sympathy for her. It reeks of entitlement, like she owns the character even though it's not always that way.

On the other hand Jennifer has been liking Kamiya's tweets trashing on Taylor, so Jennifer is clearly no angel in this.

That's beside the point. And some people that Taylor follows are... very unsavory to say the least, but let's not delve into that.

Ryuji-Dono wrote:

That's beside the point. And some people that Taylor follows are... very unsavory to say the least, but let's not delve into that.

Dude you were the one who brought up the personal character of the actors' first. But if we're criticizing Taylor for being reasonably miffed at having her role taken from her just because she wanted to be paid fairly, it's fair game to criticize Hale for her own behavior, and Hale is also known for being antivaxx on Twitter.