They argue that a leak such as this “dampens the excitement and anticipation that many players feel when they obtain the update legitimately upon its official release.”
And suing your fans over already released information such as the character, does more damage then what they would have done.
Jesus. I was already pretty upset about them replacing VAs every other patch, and now replacing VAs because of the strike. I think I’m done, Star Rail. Which is sad because I was really enjoying the story. But I can’t really support a game that behaves like that.
Same here. I LOVE Genshin Impact. I have played it since release day and have honestly never been so deep into a games world, characters and story before. But with the voices changing or even no voices in the past year, i am kinda burned out. There is so much drama surrounding the game that everytime i play it, it feels bad even just playing it.
Exactly. And I 100% support the VAs for striking, they need to protect their craft from being exploited by AI.
I mean, I played Genshin for a long time too, and I never whaled on it, Welkin Moon was my jam, just to get some extra pulls for characters I was excited to have and play. So, I was used to the MC being pretty unspoken, and I can appreciate that at least from a narrative perspective, allowing the player to insert their own voice and what not (although I really like both Lumine and Stelle’s English VAs though, really criminal Lumine had so few spoken lines.)
There was a post on the Genshin Reddit which made a big deal about how Kinich’s new EN voice actor was Japanese (because he has a Japanese last name) and therefore he was not eligible to join the American VA union, so ackshually he’s not a scab. I made a comment saying that Kinich’s new actor is in fact American (like 15 seconds of research) and was therefore eligible to join the union. I didn’t say he should or should not join it, I just said that he could. Literally hundreds of downvotes, and then like two days later the VA tweets saying that he’s not even ethnically Japanese he just took his wife’s last name lmao. The Genshin subreddits are absolutely deranged with how much they hate the VA union.
Meanwhile my Reddit account can’t even post anymore because I have negative total karma just from that exchange, and almost every subreddit requires you have positive karma to comment. Not a big loss though, Reddit is the worst.
I nuked my reddit account from orbit back when the API fiasco hit and haven’t looked back. My understanding is it’s become even more a shithole since.
I have people at my work that are so so strongly anti-union, and it makes zero sense, because even basic googling will tell you what our specific union has fought for and accomplished over the decades, and how they are directly benefiting from it. But, no one is immune to propaganda, and wow did these people buy it hook line and sinker.
