Bayonetta's voice actor was only offered $4,000 for the upcoming third installment of the series

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Is the issue the amount of work she needs to do for this project vs. pay , or is it an actual formula that shows her participation guarantees the title huge returns and she wants her cut?

Without a contract, she could get $0 and not have to lift a finger.

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Muddying the waters further such that a casual observer like myself has no idea what’s going on, they replaced her with noted union voice actor Jennifer Hale.

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I don’t know what a good price is for voice acting, but $4000 for an established franchise expected to sell millions of dollars worth is fucking insulting.

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This is 100% pure speculation and gossip.

On a random reddit that I saw the news first, a handful of people were speculating that the studio did not want to work with the voice actor for the three-quel and this was their weird way of doing it.

Gamen above wrote that they went with Jennifer Hale, which would support this. Still a very crap way of of ‘were going another direction’.

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There’s a lack of transparency regarding videogames VAs, and I’m pretty sure that’s by design. It doesn’t sound like it’s a job where more experienced nets you extra pay. The bigger paydays are likely only offered to Hollywood famous performers. Everyone else just gets $4k for 4 days of work for a large role. (Which sounds good only when you assume people can get consistent work.)

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But Jennifer Hale is union and, while not Hollywood famous is industry famous. No way she’s being paid $4k for this job.

Anyway, I don’t think this would have blown up if Taylor hadn’t been offered $4k, but if they’d said they wanted to go with someone else or even with someone with a bigger profile. But no, they wanted to insult her for some reason.

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Like I said, there’s a lack of transparency. My instinct is to assume Hale is getting a better offer, but it’s possible that either the pay doesn’t bother her because of how consistently she works or this role came bundled with roles down the line. I wish I knew more about how that industry works.

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