• grandepequeno [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    (I’m going to be completely honest and say something to vent while not reading the article. Feel free to reply why I should feel different or if you get what I’m saying)

    That’s completely fine. I don’t like celebrities, I’m not sure how much VAs are paid but some times when I hear game VAs vocalize their complaints it reads like concern for not getting celebrity status attached to voicing in video games and not being overpayed to hell like movie actors are. I’m sure they put it in a lot of work, but game dev salaries aren’t all that high compared to standard software developers, and they get crunched to shit too. If voice actors are already being paid fairly, which is an assumption I’m making, I’d much rather the overwhelming profits from video games first to go into getting more devs on board so they can avoid crunch-time and still get the game out.

    Also, subjectively I don’t really care that a person sounds like a video game character I like, because 100% of the time I’m more attached to the character in its universe as a written character than their voice, so I haven’t really gotten into any of the meming VAs do with their characters, because to me that’s not the character that’s just a their voice, even though I do have VAs whose voice I recognized and enjoy seeing show up