Good info, and fair enough for people to support the strike, if they want to.
FWIW, my view is that the use of AI-generated figures, voices etc. in video games is inevitable. As a gamer, I genuinely don't care who is behind a particular voice. I cannot imagine that many gamers do. All the strike is going to do, is hasten the shift to AI.
Unless you're excited to live in a world where creative personality and art history has been replaced by public or private utilities, the (maybe not) inevitable deserves at least a little resistance.
The cost of acting as a percentage of budget or revenue is highest for indie studios because it's done at fixed union rates without the variability in the number of hours that can be spent on it you get for art and polish coding. It is likely to take over the stuff we actually like first, because, among other things, small studios are more willing to take risks and accept quality compromises in new technology acquisition.
The fully organic push might just be a bargaining tactic. There's other big wins like ensuring your likeness won't be replicated, your work used to train AI without compensation, or your work replaced with an AI sound-alike when it's cheaper.
I guess I'm unintentionally supporting them, because Riot removed Arena last week. That was the only game type I had the stomach to play, I'm tired of whacking minions.
Except the strike is not really against LoL as a game, but as one of the largest clients of the actually targeted company.
The strike is purely an industry strike and does not have much to do with players, as it originates in the VA company trying to pull a scummy move to bypass an union.
The strike's goal was to force Riot to take position and disavow the company, which has been successful.
Here's a few links. I don't believe the union officially calls for players to boycott or anything, just for union members to strike. Either way I haven't played since the strike became official, primarily because I always try to support striking unions when possible, and secondarily because it's pretty easy to just not play a game while they're negotiating.
