That's fair, but also at the same time I see their point. Actors (not the top stars) got the short end of the stick over last 10 years. With rise of streaming services they really got hosed in residuals and now with AI Corpos are trying to pull a fast one.
You are cheering for huge corporations against normal working people? Because you may be inconvenienced in getting new content or video games?
You realize more than 90% of actors are "nobodies" who barely make a living and have no celebrity status whatsoever, right?
Yup. Media people have a way of being annoying. I find them similar to sales people at the office. There's 7 or 8 different kinds of departments on the floors and sales people always think they are the smartest people on the block. Something goes well they want credit and recognition. Things go lousy and they blame every other department.
For all the people moaning about execs and VPs getting millions, all the highly paid celebs collectively make tons more. Tom Cruise made $100M alone off Top Gun Maverick.
That's not how this works. If actors getting $30m per movie all of a sudden get capped at $15, studios and those exects will pocket the suddenly available $15. They're going to see it as additional profit for themselves and shareholders.
If those executives making $30m a year all of a sudden no longer bring in value worth $30m a year, they'll stop making $30m a year.LOL, so market pay principles apply to movie stars, but not executives of publicly traded corporations?
Oh no a 3 hour job making funny sounds....how will they ever cope with such a weight on their shoulders....Maybe they would prefer my 10 hour job breaking their backs carrying radiators all day and dealing with the most retarded morons on the planet in sales?
Oh no a 3 hour job making funny sounds....how will they ever cope with such a weight on their shoulders....Maybe they would prefer my 10 hour job breaking their backs carrying radiators all day and dealing with the most retarded morons on the planet in sales?
Well what do you know.Working is not fun....news at 11.
Do you really think cutting people out will make games better? Money saved will be either put to more bloat, more marketing, or to lift the bottom line.
Comes down to what the final net effect is. Not every production has to be fully staffed or have the same or bigger number of employees than before.
I see where you're getting at, but the execs are 1000 times more replaceable. Literally any business school graduate can have their job and probably do it better looking at Disney and WarnerBros/Discovery in the last few years.
Yes, because companies will reduce prices or limit micro transactions if their costs will be lower, right?
Which actors are you talking about? This is an awfully wide generalization here.
Everybody is fine with AI taking over, until it comes for their job.
Except this won't change anything for the big stars anyway. Ai isn't going to replace Nolan north or tom cruise. But it can replace the average no name worker. Your bitterness against star power will likely continue.
Tiktok people are stupid, eventually a vast majority of the public will personally volunteer enough voice samples and image samples to create ai generated characters.
You’re not wrong. But it’s hardly just TikTok. Anyone who has been submitting years of pictures, videos etc. into the internet-void through social media are in for a rough ride as AI keeps growing.
It's originally from South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
I every time I hear SAG I think of the Film Actors Guild from Team America
Honestly, you should give it a whirl. A lot of VAs lose their voice on the regular. There're are health and safety regulations to protect you from long-term injury in areas like construction (won by striking in a lot of cases) - these don't exist in most creative fields.They can have my 12 hour shift, I'll take that 30x dragon roar, 6 hour "job" any day
Being an actor and being a millionaire are not one and the same. Most of them, usually the VAs you see in games, are being paid peanuts and can barely make ends meet between jobs.
I'm not talking about them either. I doubt that the more recognisable names in VA are struggling.
I love how people like you ignore those problems when affect to invisible jobs, but come here to be the white knight with those more visible jobs.
