The controversy of this weekend has not been made to beg.
This past weekend has been quite an intense one for the video game industry and the future releases that are yet to come, since it has been possible to see that, far from having peace and conciliation among the community, there have been two games singled out by many under the boycott calleven though a sector has asked for different reasons that nobody buy these gameseven though the names that have come to the fore have been Hogwarts Legacy and Bayonetta 3.
Regarding the first, rather than development, the reasons that have led some to ask for its boycott has been JK Rowling herself, the author of the Harry Potter books who in recent years has been involved in a series of messages classified as transphobic among other criticisms that have led many people to reject the magical universe he created at the time.
On the contrary the problem with Bayonetta 3 has arisen in the title itselfmore specifically in the translation and dubbing division, where we have been able to see that the voice actress of the protagonist in previous installments, Hellena Taylor, pointed out that the reason she was replaced by Jennifer Hale was For economical reasonsspecifically the alleged wage misery he would receive for doubling the game.
The Bayonetta actress in the previous two installments criticized the wage poverty that Platinum Games was going to pay her
To put it into context, it all boils down to Taylor releasing a series of videos over the weekend basically explaining that it was not going to be Bayonetta due to salary problemseven though according to the actress, Platinum Games offered her 4,000 US dollars to record all the sessions, something that is considered very little within the guild and the union, even arguing game sales and revenue.
So far so good, since many considered that he was denouncing a precarious situation. However, the controversy came when he not only stated this, but also asked fans to boycott sales of the gamedonating the money that they were going to allocate for it to a charity while criticizing Jennifer Hale, Bayonetta’s voice in this third installment, stating that the dubbing actress he had no right to say he was the character.
Given this, the criticism of Hideki Kamiya, the visible face of Platinum Games and the person pointed out by Taylorleading to Twitter suspending his account to later be deleted and then reactivated, thus giving rise to the controversy was to moreas many pointed out that there would be some truth to Taylor’s speech if this was Kamiya’s way of defending himself.
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However, it seems that the drama has not ended here, but that we have been able to see a full turn of the nuts would point out now that either Hellena Taylor did not know what they were offering her or, on the contrary, demanded much more than what the unions stipulatebeing, therefore, his wake-up call and his request for the boycott a highly reprehensible act.
And it is that according to the Bloomberg news portal, which are characterized by being quite serious when it comes to offering news about it in relation to the world of video games, it has been reported that after speaking with Platinum Games it has been discovered that really the job offer was $3,000 to $4,000 per session, while a total of five sessions had been planned. This would lead to the actress charging between 15,000 and 20,000 dollars.
However, apparently the controversy came when Taylor claimed to collect six figuresbeing here when the negotiations broke down, since the actress wanted to charge at least six figures for her work in Bayonetta 3. Needless to say, before this news, Taylor sent an email stating that this was an absolute lie and that the studio was just trying to clean up their image based on the barrage of criticism it has received. However, it does seem that it is the end of Bayonetta for her, since after all these comings and goings, he has decided to leave this stage behind.
Bayonetta 3 will be released for Nintendo Switch on October 28 without any problems
In this way, it seems that the conflict between Taylor and Platinum Games seems to have reached its climax no clear resolutionbut the release of Bayonetta 3 will go ahead with Jennifer Hale as the new voice actress.
In fact, this same actress has spoken about it, dispelling any type of criticism. Be that as it may, remember that Bayoentta 3 will arrive exclusively on Nintendo Switch on October 28bringing with it new characters in what is, at the moment, the closure of the saga.