Sure. I’m aware of that. I’m not happy about it but I’m not exactly prepared to throw myself into the “receiving end” out of guilt. Better to try to actually make a useful difference with my life. Part of that, albeit a very small part, is shitting on crap like Palworld. Everyone who buys it should know they’re encouraging the world to be just a little bit more shit.
Yuzu devs are a bunch of pricks too though, who made a lot of money with their operation.
Palworld is late stage capitalism in a nutshell. No thanks.
AI sucks at creativity. I think there is going to be a lot of crap out there that takes advantage of those willing to sell their voices away, but good games will need a combination for a good while yet, and a deal that looks something like what you’ve sketched out, where voice actors are compensated as well as they are now, or slightly better, per game that uses their voice, many will sign up, even if it’s less work overall.
There will be games advertised AI-free before long, and if I was a leader in the industry, I’d be trying to give a bit more celebrity status to voice actors. I already know the names of dinnere of my favorites, like Ashley Birch, Jennifer Hale, Nolan North, Kimiko Glenn, Matt Mercer (and the whole Critical Role crew, especially Ashley Johnson), and the list goes on. I would buy games just because they were advertised as featuring these folks and more so if I heard from them they’d be treated well.
AI is inevitable. I just hope people continue to push hard against the enshittification of everything.
Ironically, because we are too stupid a species to put willingly pit ourselves through any austerity on a large scale. No one is will accept less than they have it seems, even though the only people who would actually need to downgrade their lives are the ultra wealthy. It doesn’t make it any easier though because they hold all the power. And they use their propaganda power to tell us to change our lifestyle choices, while they flaunt their own wealth. They tell us to choose more expensive “eco-friendly” or “ethical” options most of us can’t afford, and so are encouraged to feel guilty for failing to buy. And they buy them of course, but then still drive million dollar cars and own multiple multimillion dollar mansions.
We’ve really got to find a way to stop fucking over ourselves like this. And we’ve got to do it by somehow getting the richest people and organizations of the world on board. Violent revolution has rarely worked long term, and it’s slipping further and further away as security technology gets more powerful. Nevermind drones and the inevitable rise of autonomous weapons systems. The “rabble” will never have access to these ordinances. So we’ve got to get in their heads. Trick them into doing the right thing enough to see that as the challenge to which their should commit their wealth.