Woke Voice Actors Lose Themselves Another Job! 

And they wonder why nobody has any sympathy for them when AI comes for their jobs.

You know. Maybe we should promote this more often. Make sure these companies make a big profit until these voice actors all walk out.

The voice actors are now fired from my future project.

It is moral to never hire localizers. Localizers are bigots and criminals. Human translators are better. Accurate language translating is showing honor to ensure the intent is the same in a different language. Even I support Japan-only content to never worry about censorship for other countries. There is already US stuff available in the US anyway.

Sony: "We're Sony, and we have to uncensor for a living. Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo."

Fan service and customer service are important to stay in business as you are giving the said people what they want.

It's not "fan service" it's called "customer service". If they had English speaking voice actors actually did what customers wanted it would have worked out just fine.

As it should be. Nothing of value was lost.

This whole situation proves the 80/20 Rule....80% of your Sales comes from 20% of your "Fan Base" focusing on what the Fans want actually works...who'd have thought. If you poop on those Fans your finished

The company that made that game is better off finding competent english voice actors that are not Hollywood.

Couldn't happen to a better bunch of people

Screw it. I prefer JP anyway.

Much as I hate how dub crews think they have any authority over the original creatives behind the media they work in, I'd still rather see a small team of actually passionate fans doing the voice acting over AI. Having said that, no dub and fan translations are better than anything given how obnoxious the people in translation agencies are when thinking they have to "improve" the media.

AI generated subs or dubs, either is fine. Just cut out these moral busibodies/virtue signalers entirely. They have no say in the actual content of the game and it must stay that way

Video game players play video games. Even Stevie Wonder knows it when he did 'Higher Ground'.

Stop making games for _"modern audiences"_ cos at best, they are a tiny percentage of your customers, and usually not the paying kind either.

Good. I dont feel sympathy for these Woke Actors.

Why would I care for English dub? I play/watch most of my stuff subbed. I've been playing Xenoblade Definitive Edition subbed this whole time. 😂

And he came back and said let there be consquesess for women. AH!!!!

"We don't want to work on it due to fanservice" That's a recommendation that bought me like a bag of gummy bears

Bayonettagate II: Electric Boogaloo

If the fans are there primarily because of the fanservice then that's what I'd be catering to. Tastefully done and explicit, both options and in between.

This looks like a job for... Artificial Intelligence!!!

Good

Snowbreak containment zone I'll check it out

As someone who prefers dub work as a concept, I would welcome AI replacing uptight tourist "actors" F-ing with my stuff.

I prefer Subs, but my wife is blind so when we watch anime together dubs are the go to. Although, it should be said that she has some catching up to do so everything we watch is prewoke (2005 and before)

English dubs don’t seem necessary tbh, so not sure what leverage they thought they had.

They should get HoloEN to voice act.

Their move worked since i have returned recently and gave them my cash to buy Enya nurse outfit. Game have improved a lot with new modes, events, free SSR characters like Enya or one of your choosing of old chara pool and also doubling stamina cap for all players. It's a perfect side game that is more fun to play than other gachas because you shoot your guns not the ai that is doing animation as 2d/2.5d model.

Let’s use something a lefty can relate to. A generic product that appeals to everyone, is not going to make furries to spend money like crazy, and be happy about it. A product that was tailored for Furries, will make furries really happy, and happily pay for the product, shouting “Sh up and take my hard earned money” Same logic, a product that was tailored for lesbians, will make lesbians really happy, and willing to dump money on the company that made it. The products may not appeal to people that’s not their target, but they can make their targets really satisfied like not other things can. It’s a win-win for both the customers and the makers. Toilet paper is for everyone, and did you see anyone being crazy and happy when they but toilet paper? NO! If they want to make everyone in the world happy in the name of inclusivity, it is a better option to make different kinds of products with different target audiences, than slacking off producing one giant mess and force people from all different backgrounds to like the same mutant blob of slime monster.

Better idea: get new English voice actors.

What gets me is the hypocrisy. They claim to hate "fan service," and yet are completely happy letting degenerate shippers write the lore and canonize their favorite yaoi pairings. They have to eat their cake and deny everyone else a slice, is what im saying.

This is not a time for rejecting money. This is time to be building an emergency fund and preparing for economic hard times.

How difficult is it to just say the lines, and get your paycheck. Honestly, if you just shut up, do the job you're paid to do, there's no issue. This makes no sense to me. Why would you take the job, if you weren't willing to do the part with the fan service or in fact this entirely.

They screwed themselves over for petty reasons. Almost any game will be guilty of fan service in some way, shape, or form. You have to give a little bit to attract customers, geniuses…

Blue archive is my favorite gacha and I'd never play it if it was with English voice...

I downloaded snow break the moment I heard this news and I'm loving every second of it. The only problem I have is that my Google account is jacked up at the moment. For some reason I can't add funds to the Google Play accounts and I don't know what's going on. Is it some kind of glitch going on or something?

"Go Woke, Go Broke!"

If they'd asked me to be an English speaker for it. My reaction would have been every bit Mr. Crabs: " I like money. "

If I have an option, I’ll always choose the non English language option

Normally, I steer clear of gachas, but I put money into this one as a reward for them not bowing to the tourists.

cool if they dont want money im sure they could run a fan event and get some people that like and play the game to voice characters in the game for a cheaper price and some in game goodies.

Imagine that! Give true fans what they want, and they will pay for more. Funny how that works.... 😜

One more thing!! They tried recasting, but no other agency/union wanted to work with them, i feel that scz will have a hard time working with anything related with localization.

A lot of wins recently. Not that the enemy had any chance to begin with.

Fanbase 'Oh No... Anyway'

6:09 Now I am curious on how the JP Legosi voice would sound like in english.

"But nobody plays the English dub." Sadly, a lot do. Tons of people play Genshin with English. And if you talk about non gacha games like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest, WAY more of them do. And Dragon Quest is the worst offender of all. But people are selective and blind to bad localizations when it comes to certain series.

Take a note from Japan. Protect your geisha's, ban tourists!

Blue archive until Amazon comes in

Pansu is not for everyone

Tourist "voice actors" successfully gatekept! 😂😂😂😂 🤣🤣🤣🤣

To be fair, I would prefer a little less fan service in a lot of media, because I'm a conservative. However, I refuse to censor and bully other people to do it in their own media.

Training AIs to speak a language in the voice of someone who does not speak that language is a great idea, especially with how many languages have very few voice actors to go around.

We need fanservice, dude!

If every English dub was as good as the Black Bullet English dub they'd be popular and booming. Sadly, though, uncensored and passioned English dubs are diamonds in the ruff. The VAs for Rentaro and Enju went HARD in that dub and the lines weren't censored to high Hell. Enju's (a loli) quote "You know you liked it." is dubbed WORD FOR WORD.

Considering English dub is usually forced and lackluster I’m all for games having only subs from now on, it saves the company money and keeps losers like this out of work

So the people whining about losing their jobs to AI also refuse to abide by the principles of the free market

english dub is mostly used by the same folks that only play on the soyny and throw a fit when one of their precious exclusives releases on PC

I don’t even listen to English version if I can the subtitles on

Not having English is a deal breaker for me, but I probably never would have even heard of this game anyway, so I guess it is not a lost sale.

Man sound euphonium season 3 has way more drama in it than the last couple of seasons, especially episode 9 the most recent episode

I've been playing the game ever since the 2nd update. The gameplay is passable and to be honest, they still have a lot to improve on. NPC AI is still horrible, especially the latest "pokemon" mode where you can capture some enemies and make them work for you, but they keep shooting walls and sometimes completely ignore hostiles who are attacking us. Explosive barrels and the cover system feels meaningless. Owning certain operators can make you bruteforce almost everything in the game. As for the fanservice, I do agree they are very appealing. They keep introducing different kinds of waifu archetypes and showing off fanservice skins. The latest patch even have extended interactive scene with 1 of the girl in her nurse outfit. I think most people would prefer the Chinese / Japanese voiceovers anyway so nothing of value was lost in term of English voice acting.

These companies need to remember something. When it comes to customer satisfaction, if they fail to satisfy their customers then their competitors will.

Eiyuden Chronicles effed up the English voice dub, too. SBI employee involved. Sales numbers are abysmal.

Good.

4:30 meanwhile in my country everyone picks the english dub despite it not being an english speaking country they are just too used to it

I would dub using neural networks trained on the original Japanese voice actors; it works out quite well with songs.

5:04 The English dub for Honki Star rail is actually pretty good

Ill stick to read manga translated by fans or some obscure editorial Group with actual good taste in manga that publishes it by mere choice(or by taking requests).

They could hire a professional who knows how to run the previously sampled voices through AI to dub it into any language. If people can make videos here of Biden and Trump having a party that sounds legit, a sound expert could do better.

Funny that the only EN VA that I would insist on keeping the dubs would probably be Arknights. The kek part about it is some of the former EN VA's in Snowbreak, Megan Maczko (Lyfe), Eleanor Bennett (Marian), and Rosie Jones (Chenxing), are playing the characters Liskarm, Dagda, and Plume, respectively are IN Arknights. EDIT: yeah Heather Nicol (Fenny) has Goldenglow and Ptilopsis, Harriet Carmichael (Enya) has Shaw and the two Specters, Penelope Rawlins (Acacia) has Kazemaru, Melantha, and Pudding, Clare Corbet (Siris) has Estelle, and Hollie Taylor (Fritia) has Eyjafjalla, Meteorite, and Myrtle. Wew

I saw this stuff when another channel put it up. I will say the same thing about the English VAs here. If they don't like that the Devs chose fan service to make money for the game. They have no business being there at all. So the Devs should just stay the course with what they are currently doing and don't bother with the English VAs.

Honestly? I never liked when a series that traditionally hasn't had fanservice suddenly shifts to having it. But whatever gets rid of these people...

Also, Japanese voice, Subtitulos en Español 😃

I don’t see why anyone would want an English dub anyway. When I first tried out Genshin and it was defaulted to the English dub, I felt so much secondhand embarrassment by the lack of skill and passion, that I had to take a break while downloading the JP dub. The last time that English VA was truly well done, was with the first TLoU or with VtMB. Can’t remember any other instance where the VAing was on point and didn’t make me cringe.

AI for the win.

Your ai voice training sounds like a good idea, but given how phobic oogle made theirs I doubt that'd give a better outcome.

Good! The less work these English voice actors have, the more us fans can enjoy anime and games in their uncorrupted form.

English dubs are always soulless, they don't even try, not just the emotional notes, but even using the right words however mandarin is such a hideous language, so id rather Korean or Japanese dub even if its a done poorly, over any English or mandarin the other problem with English subs or dubs is; they don't even use the appropriate formal language when its relevant, English still has formal and informal language yet not only can the not even do basic translation, but these hacks didn't even learn basic English

I will take fan service over Dub ANYDAY!

Good we don't need those voice actors sub is way better.

I never heard of Snowbreak, when did it came out, 2020 or 2021?

I'm wondering hypothetically, if I'm a voice actor and I have a lucrative job or contract elsewhere after the fact. I might honestly think twice before accepting a contract with something that is deemed lewd 18+ especially if my current contract is not for that audience per say. Nothing personal and it really doesn't matter IMO a job is a job. But consumers create controversy. So I might just not get involved and turn down the job. I'm just saying it may not be as white and black as we think. I use those as colors , not races lol. Disclaimer don't want to get flagged for hate speech >_> .

No dub is required. Subtitles work just fine and it means not dealing with wannabe hollyweirdos.

I have mixed feelings about this. I prefer an English dub. However, I don't want The Woke Voice actors to pay any money, as it's just going to perpetuate this crap. As a thought, if they can't do the AI thing like you suggested, I would suggest simply hiring new voice actors. There are tons of them out there who would be glad to get a job and don't have their scruples. Finally, yes, there are a lot of posers everywhere, and honestly, I've learned that gatekeeping is an absolute necessity. If they don't want to be fans, get them the hell out

What game is this called

Japanese va do it better and always have.

Who even uses English voice overs? Very few English VAs are even worth listening to. The amount of people who use English dubs in gacha games is like single digits anyway. No loss to the company, really. I immediately switch to Japanese dubs in my Neptunia games. I turned on English dubs for 3 seconds and already wanted to bash my head against the wall.

Get new voice actors.

to be fair before all this eng dubs use to be fun adding funny lines and such but the va nowadays ruined that

Most Eng streamers use EN dub because their audience can't read, but that's it. People outside of America and England usually don't bother with EN dub at all. It's also funny how the cry for EN dub always come with "why Seasun didn't listen to the majority" when there are like only 10 of them keep whining about it.

American voice actors are whiny little Bs. We don't have such a*holes. Mexican voice actor Ruben Moya(our He-Man) not only did voice dubs, he did voice overs, narrations, tv commercial and what not!, he had an amazing voice and by GOD I couldn't think of a better He-Man than him. Another Example: Esteban Garcia, Venezuelan, better known as Lex Luthor from Justice League DCAU, you can spot his voice on film, narration for educative programs, Brazilian novelas... Literally any LatinAmerican voice actor is used in anything that requires a dub or a good voiceover or narration. Our voice actors are not a One Trick Pony, in fact some of them are The Whole Circus. They are THAT awesome. And want another interesting fact, some descendants have taken the mantle with the same success and dignity as their fathers and mothers. F-ing AWESOME!

lmfao wrong English dub is needed because Asian voice acting is garbage over the top and squeaky i just want a real translation and not a wokeafied one

I finally watched Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Absolute 20/10. Japanese with English subtitles is the only way I can watch it. I was not disappointed.