Voice Actors Go on Strike. GTA 6 and Other AAA Projects May Be Delayed
Tens of thousands of SAG-AFTRA union members have announced a boycott of game publishers.
Actors are demanding higher wages and better working conditions. The second demand is to protect actors from neural networks, which can already be used to voice games, which takes jobs away from real people.
SAG-AFTRA union members are employees of large studios and game publishers such as Activision, Electronic Arts, Take-Two, etc. In this regard, it is likely that the release dates of major AAA titles may be postponed for a period of six months to a year and a half. They cannot be released without voice acting, and the capabilities of artificial intelligence are not yet sufficient to replace the voices of real actors.
Therefore, GTA 6 may be postponed, since the game is published by Take-Two. Earlier, the head of the company, Strauss Zelnick, said that in the event of a strike, the company has a backup plan, but how the publisher will act now is unknown.
Actors are demanding higher wages and better working conditions. The second demand is to protect actors from neural networks, which can already be used to voice games, which takes jobs away from real people.
SAG-AFTRA union members are employees of large studios and game publishers such as Activision, Electronic Arts, Take-Two, etc. In this regard, it is likely that the release dates of major AAA titles may be postponed for a period of six months to a year and a half. They cannot be released without voice acting, and the capabilities of artificial intelligence are not yet sufficient to replace the voices of real actors.
Therefore, GTA 6 may be postponed, since the game is published by Take-Two. Earlier, the head of the company, Strauss Zelnick, said that in the event of a strike, the company has a backup plan, but how the publisher will act now is unknown.
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