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Baldur's Gate 3 performer says developers don't value voice actors as much as the audience does
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I think this would have been a fine argument 10 years ago or so, but nowadays the blockbuster game projects are expected to have years of live service / continued development. Looking at games like Marvel Rivals or Vermintide with ensemble casts, every major update the devs are bringing the VAs back in to record new or re-record old voice lines with major updates. Depending on the update schedules for such games, this could be as often as bringing the VAs back every other week or so. Doubly so if the studio uses the same actors for multiple projects. Marvel Rivals releases a new playable character every 4 weeks, and their characters have dialogue interactions between all the other characters that have to be recorded.
In those cases it makes sense to have a closer relation between studio and recurring VAs. But that's still a small number of games, I think most VA work is still one-off with a small percentage of games that get 1 dlc that brings some characters back