GTAIV stars point to low pay

$100,000 for 15 months? WTF is this guy on, all he does is a couple of hours a day to say a few lines that thousands of other willing people would easily be qualified for and able to do. The people who actually made the game and needed to work 18 hour days to get things done are probably being paid less than that. I'm a game programmer, I've worked 18 hour days and I know I am getting much less than that.

At least movie stars have to look good, keep in shape, put up with many hours of make-up, repeat huge and exhausting scenes over and over or produce a perfect take first time on a one time only multi-million dollar shoot. This guy had no risk, no hard work, no need to keep up a good physique and no need to even be presentable.

IMO this guy is another greedy, arrogant, overpaid jerk who doesn't realise just how replacable he is. I mean really, if every one working on GTA IV got paid as well as he did then GTA IV would have between 2 and 5 times as much to make:
1000 people * $80,000 (annual salary equivilent to $100,000 over 15 months) * # of years = at least $200,000 in labour alone.

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And just thinking he couldn't even have been working a couple of hours a day over that 15 month time frame unless he was REALLY bad at his job. I mean he'd have done say 10 hours worth of dialog right? Not played GTA IV yet so I'm guessing a bit, but that would mean if it took 10 attempts to get a line right, and 30% of planned lines were dropped, that's 150ish hours of work, and clearly that's barely even enough for an hour of work per day for 8 months, let alone 15.

Good point (and sorry I nearly missed it), most of that was just guess work, but it's estimated guesses work based on my experience in the games industry, we are one of the most abused workforces around having to frequently put in stupid amounts of unpaid overtime (working 18 hour days and weekends but only getting paid for five 8 hour days), and our skills would land us jobs paying between 2 and 10 times what we currently earn if we left the games industry for the IT sector. It makes me sick to think there are people demanding more money from this industry for doing a job that is significantly easier and less time time consuming, take a look at most credits for games, there's almost always some apology from the devs to their family for being away so much of the time.

There's no inconsistency in the slightest, Tom Hanks is a well known name and using his voice would no doubt have increased sales of the movie easily justifying the $5,000,000 he was paid. The flaw in all your arguments is the same, the actor in question was being paid more for the name rather than the work, as is the case with most famous actors. This guy is not famous, he had little to offer in terms of selling more copies of the game so he should not be being paid so much money, they could have hired almost anyone for the job and still sold just as many copies of the game so I don't think he should be complaining about that.

Yer I agree that he should be getting a cut of the advertising revenue that's a totally fair argument since it actually is his voice that's making them money in that case and he should be able to reap the benefits.

Like say a developer, any work I do will be used over and over without any extra money comming my way. For instance if someone wrote a great algorythm to some neat effect then left the company, that work will be likely to be used for sequals and other games without the author of the code getting anything, often not even a single credit after the game it was originally in . These actors don't know how sweet a deal they have.

For a company of developers that can't afford to self fund a game (MOST OF THEM), the company will often only get paid a fixed amount to develop a game by a publisher. If the company was paid $10,000,000 to make the game and if the game happens to sell extremely well and make $1,000,000,000 then the dev company get's screwed out of $990,000,000 just because they needed a loan.