The board of the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (AFTRA) has endorsed a tentative deal with videogame publishers that would see game voice actors receive a bump in pay.
Separate AFTRA and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) contracts were announced earlier this month. SAG’s board has approved its deal as well reports Variety, and has sent out the agreement to its four member caucuses for a final go over.
The contracts of both groups expire on December 31. The new 15-month long deals, if approved, would run through March 30, 2011. As it stands now, each group would receive an initial 3% raise and a second increase of 2.5% on April 1.
Opposition to one of the pact’s points has apparently sprouted up as some members are not too pleased with a provision that would allow employers to use actors to perform up to 20 different voices—with up to 300 words for each voice—and be paid at the daily base rate, which some see as a step backward from current terms.
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Re: AFTRA Okays Voice Actor Deal
Yes, let’s celebrate the Union raising the pay for voice actors! Now we just will soon have to pay more for video games!
Re: AFTRA Okays Voice Actor Deal
That's not how prices work. The production costs of video games have risen enormously over time without an even remotely commensurate increase in price, and the additional expense of higher voice actor pay is trivial by comparison.
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Re: AFTRA Okays Voice Actor Deal
Since the price point of games has very little to do with thier production costs, I doubt this minor increase for a group that is barely paid in the first place will have any impact on what you pay.
Re: AFTRA Okays Voice Actor Deal
I don't think they should be complaining too much, they'll just get replaced by Johnny Yong Bosch.