The devs were already paid though.
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Voice Actor James Arnold Taylor (Ratchet/Tidus/Obi-Wan) is posting racist & covid conspiracies on Parler
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The devs were already paid though.
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Between this and the issues with Miles Morales, it wouldn't surprise me if a boycott thread started up.
Thank you for the explanations. I just went back through the thread and BAD also explained it too. This is really disheartening. JAT is one of my favorite voice actors for one of my favorite videogame characters ever.
The fact that hes posting on Parler should tell you everything you need to know.
So is the voice actor. And Insomniac to keep their end with Sony for future games have to meet sales expectations.
It is not black people's responsibility to save video game developers.
If they can erase spacey from a complete movie they can for sure redo the voice for that character
the funny thing about that is those are the same people who criticize people for being in an echo chamber. The obvious projection escapes them
People can buy whatever they want but to think a company of 200 plus all believe and stand up for what a unionized voice actor who works freelance is saying is incorrect and Insomniac denounced bigotry countless times and if I recall are very diverse as far as staff goes.
It's OK to boycott games for being politically correct, but it's not OK to boycott them for being problematic!
"Punish", this has to be one of the dumbest things i have seen, so many people "punish" them all the time when they decide to buy something else, if people don't want to buy their game because one person is being an alt-right asshole they are in their right to do so
The answer here is simple: if Insomniac values diversity and dislikes bigotry the way they say they do, they can drop Taylor and replace him with a voice actor who isn't an unapologetic racist.
The onus is not on the consumer to protect a developer from their mistakes.
Customer is always right but i just think attributing a whole company's staff to this one person isn't it.
The product is a reflection of the company that made it. Nobody is saying every single member of Insom's staff is racist because they hired an actor who turned out to be racist.
But unfortunately, the literal face of the Ratchet series is now associated with Taylor's behavior and that is a black mark on the franchise moving forward unless Insomniac addresses it before release.
No one said anything about the ethics of every individual Insomniac employee, so don't move the goalposts.
This is about JAT and his bigotry. It is okay for people to decline buying the game in protest of his continued status as Ratchet's actor.
To imply otherwise suggests a responsibility for consumers, especially minority consumers, to prop up companies and products that they don't believe represent their interests.
And that's not how this bitch works. I'll buy or not buy whatever I want for any reason. If you only have a problem with my purchasing habits when I conduct them on the basis of anti-bigotry grounds, that's a problem you need to reflect on.
Probably not(?), but it would probably be better for Insom to start from scratch with an entirely new actor, since the original Ratchet performance wasn't very good. They dropped him after one game for a reason.
That show was already one of the worst cartoons ever made, but thanks for giving me another reason to hate it!
Topic title could have just said the voice actor made a Parler account and that would have been all we needed to know. Actually posting his stupid ass beliefs is, strangely, icing on this shitty cake.
Who needs to "make a list" of the fringe when all we gotta ask is "do they have a Parler account?"
Who needs to "make a list" of the fringe when all we gotta ask is "do they have a Parler account?"
Here is the tricky part though, R&C is a Sony owned license and they have plenty of say towards their funding/backing goes. Of course the direction is in Insomniac's court but if Sony wants something like said voice actor to keep his major role, that's not on Insomniac.
I am cool either way if someone wants to wait to buy the game, i can seperate art from artist but i respect others who don't want to or can't. No one is wrong, i just like Insomniac games and want to support them because whether it was Spyro, Spiderman, R&C or Sunset Overdrive they hit on my gaming tastebuds.
Based on most political polls, 38% of American VAs are shit people.
And unlike a lot of other shit people, American VAs have more of a platform with which to indoctrinate and/or harass.
I mean if Sony is willing to risk burning the entire franchise down just to keep one voice actor on payroll, that reflects badly on Sony.
She was posting conspiracy theories about the US election being rigged on social media last week. I don't know if she doubled down or not or if she's just ignorant about the political process.
If the decision to keep JAT in came from Sony, that would be even bigger reason to not buy the game, to be honest.
Anyway, it's not the customers job to protect companies.
Posting full-on conspiracy theories, pro-Trump stuff, anti-vaxx things, etc.
man lets be real them keeping this dude on the payroll is gonna affect R&C sales/reviews/reception even less than keeping Dante's VA around in DMC.
My heart would break so hard if Nolan North were ever like this. He seems like too nice of a guy to though.