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mcm
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 Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:26 am Post subject: Video Game Actors and Writers on NPR |
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Deirdre
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:56 am Post subject: |
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Here's my question about "residuals" (wrong term anyway) :
Do the writers get a bonus when the game is a screaming success?
The artists and programmers?
If ALL THESE GUYS get a bonus when a title is a huge hit, then actors deserve a bonus, too.
If no one else is getting extra—then suck it, actors.
Everyone is working their asses off for a fee.
If you can negotiate for a percentage, like in the movies, go for it.
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Jeffrey Kafer
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| Deirdre wrote: | Do the writers get a bonus when the game is a screaming success?
The artists and programmers?
If ALL THESE GUYS get a bonus when a title is a huge hit, then actors deserve a bonus, too. |
True, the term is not residuals, it's royalties in video games. And if a game is a screaming success, that development company gets royalties from the publisher depending on their contract and how they lived up to it during the development of the game.
While I think the actors should get an extra royalty for a runaway success beyond the initial exepectations, they shouldn't get as much as the developers.
Why?
If you are an independent developer, there is a tremendous amount of risk involved. Getting a publisher. meeting deadlines, delivering quality product, not crumpling under the weight of your own finances. And working your butt off for 3-4 years making the game.
Royalties are a reward for delivering a product that sells well.
The actors are not employees of the company and don't have the risk. They don't have the long hours. They come in for a couple of sessions and go home. Their livelihood and financial future is not dependent uponthe success of this one game. So they shouldn't get the same share of the royalties as the developers, artists, testers, whoever.
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Deirdre
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Nicely said, Jeffrey.
| Quote: | | The actors are not employees of the company and don't have the risk. They don't have the long hours. |
This is exactly what I was thinking.
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Azure
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I know artists sign over the rights for anything they produce to the company, I suspect only big names are the exception. Though I'm sure they guy who created Lara Croft for example doesn't own her, he left the original company which made it. |
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