I dont even care about the article.

Where the hell is that hilarious picture from?

EDIT: Nevermind, it's fake, i found the big version.

 These people are always trying to get a disproportionate amount of money out of video games. They don't deserve the raises they ask for because they're not an important part of the game development process.

When you have a dramatic movie, basically 95% of it is showing the work of actors. If you remove them... well you'd have nothing. Nobody would see a movie with the actors just cut out of it- there's little to nothing left. They make huge assloads of money because they're damned important.

When you have a video game, actors are basically an extra sound effect, even less important than gunshots or footsteps in many cases. You only hear them occasionally to sparsely, depending on the game, and if you removed them, you'd have exactly the same game only with awkwardly silent characters. Few would prefer that but anyone could get over it- games only started to regularly have voice acting 15 years ago.

And these people want a cut? I've listened to Steve Downes, the voice of Master Chief, talk about how he wants voice actors to get a percentage of the profits, like how some movie deals work. That's insane! Not even the lead designers, artists, programmers, testers, the really important people, get a cut of the profits. Everyone else is salaried. Why should actors get millions?

It's tantamount to the actors in corporate advertisements asking for 10-15% of corporate revenues, i mean, they're the ACTORS IN THE COMMERCIALS for god's sake. Oh, here's 15 million dollars for you.