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This silent hill stream is odd. It's like ko ami are throwing as much mud as possible and hoping something sticks.

Silent hill isn't the MCU you can't just stick the name on it and expect it to be good as they are learning more and more with each release.

Silent Hill 2 Remake could be great as long as they leave the story alone. Jesus that ending was depressing, still think about it now and then.

Return to Silent Hill, i don't think they have the balls to stick to the story of 2 as they claim it will be loosely based on it. Would love to see them go to some dark places but i think they'll try to reach a wider audience.

Silent Hill Ascension, i still don't know what that will be.

Silent Hill Townfall, Annapurna are involved, say no more fam.

Student Hill f, got instant Siren vibes off it, could be a proper little next gen horror.

Doubt any boycott will do anything, the Sag union strike a few years ago was their longest in their history and did nothing. They "won" pratically the same thing they were offered at the start.

Company budgets are usually annual. Being able to pay a one off big fee/bonus this year out of free cash is much simpler than trying to drip feed loads of small unknown quantities to people for years to come.

To one person it's not much to ask, but if everyone gets a % of sales that's thousands of people across multiple games getting small amounts for years to come.

That's a logistical nightmare.

She is a contract worker. She was offered a contract, it wasn't good enough in her eyes, she said no. She asked for more. it wasn't worth it / within budget for the company so they said no.

I'm al for people getting paid what their worth. But sometimes what they think they are worth and what they are worth are different.

No voice actor has ever sold a game. I've never heard anyone say oh the new x voice actor game is out.

Good voice work adds to a game, in the same way music can. But if one song costs too much you get another within your budget and move on.

You don't but many people do care about people been low balled

She has to look out for number one, and go to get as much of the pie as she can, and screw everyone else.

No problem with that. It's turning around and then playing the victim card when her slice wasn't as big as she felt she deserves that's off putting.

A game budget is like a cake. If she gets a bigger slice someone else gets a smaller slice.

Hellena Taylor now muddying the waters again

Says she was initially offered $10k, not $4k. After writing to Hideki Kamiya she was then offered an extra $5k, bringing it to $15k. She refused and asked for more, and was then offered just $4k but for just "some lines".

That's a huge misrepresentation of her initial claim that "The final offer to do the whole game as a buyout, flat rate, was $4,000."

In particular, she originally said that she was initially offered something low, and then after writing to Kamiya, she was then offered $4k.

Obviously, we haven't seen any proof of claims made by Platinum/Schrier that she asked for residuals and a 6-figure sum (whatever that sum may have been), but Taylor certainly hid the truth and misrepresented things in her initial videos.

She had multiple opportunities to clarify her position and didn't. After bucket loads of articles were written saying "she was offered 4 grand for the role" it is clear that everyone that watched the video took away that she was offered 4 grand for the full game. There was a massive debate about if 4 grand for 16 hours work was "well paid".

She left that out there, the developers, publishers, and people working on the game got dogs abuse online for the week from the usual blue-haired brigade.

This new post to "clarify things" wasn't done to come clean and stop the abuse of those people. It was to again play the victim card and claim that $15,000 is not a living wage!! You need two games a year paying 15 grand to far exceed most people's living wage.

The real issue is. She sees herself as "the talent" and wildly overvalues that talent and what it brings to the game.

She pitched this as trying to stand up for Voice Actors but this will ultimately hurt them.

I agree. Unfortunately I don't think it's a case of her words being misconstrued, but rather she lied through omission whether intentionally or not. She made it seem as though $4k was the most she was offered to voice the role at any point in the negotiations, by omitting that the most she was offered was $15k, and when she turned it down she was offered $4k for a cameo or "some lines" (ie. not voicing the role in the full game).

Regardless of Platinum's claims about a six-figure sum or residuals, the confusion that ensued about her claims are her fault, again whether intentional or not. And she had ample time before now to clarify if news sites took her up wrong.

She got £3,000 for the first game, she says a "little more" for the second. Let's say £4,000.

So for part 3, they offered her $10,000. That is more than she made for the first two games combined. She said no.

They offered to pay her $15,000, that's three times what she made for part 2 to come back. She said no.

They offered to pay her $4,000 for a small cameo, because they still wanted to do right by her, which is what she earned for a full game in the past. She said no.