Nearly all of the actors with the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies mode have quit the game, according to a new claim. In a post on social media, Call of Duty leaker GhostOfHope says that they have left the game due to a lack of protection against AI.
“Almost all of the actors that feature in the Zombies crew in Black Ops 6 Zombies have pulled out of working over the lack of AI protections in their contracts,” Hope said. “This has resulted in some of the disappointing recasts we are now seeing early on (Ex: SAM on Citadelle), with some likely still to be recast in future maps etc.”
Insider Gaming has reached out to Activision for comment on the report. As of publishing, no response has been received.
Concerns of AI protection for video game actors is nothing new. SAG-AFTRA members are currently striking against game studios for that exact reason after negotiations with studios failed to deliver any sort of guarantees for actors. The strike officially began in July after 18 months of negotiations, and continues without a deal.
One of those studios the union is in negotiations with just happens to be Activision Blizzard as well as EA, Insomniac, Take-Two, Warner Bros. Games, and more.
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If this is 100% true, then it’s extremely frustrating that Activision has caused this issue, it especially makes me worried how this will affect zombie content drops in the near future, will future maps be delayed because of the recasting, will certain characters in the crew be replaced entirely and have no presence in the story? Only time will tell.
Fine. Let them quit. Just like in most non-voice-acted animation the only actors needed in video games are the 3d characters, AI is already good enough to voice act most if not all of these roles. Games in the coming years can put all costs eaten up by actor salaries and related expenses into more actual dev time on their games. And, when they’re done they’ll have fully AI main characters in their games who aren’t just limited to games, they’re AI-powered, these characters could do interviews, host shows, accept awards and so on. Plus no actors means no actor scandals, turnovers or other drama to worry about (and no strikes or demands). It just makes sense.
way to showcase you have no humanity lol. This goes into the real world, not pop culture. How are you going to vouch for people to quit because they’re going to be replaced while simultaneously, the company they work for, making it seem like they’re still there and its not some robot. You’re a piece of shit
Yeah except that’s not the case. Let’s say for a second it’s actually beneficial to a game if these people are replaced by Machine learning. Actually I can’t even pretend, if you think they will take that money and funnel back into the game rather than their pockets, you’re nuts. The whole industry is becoming a corporation. Privately owned devs are practically a thing of the past.
That said, thinking investors give two craps about machine learning giving games more time and resources to make them better, I’m laughing as I type this. No, they want it to make it faster and cheaper even if makes a game even more hollow than they already are. You can tell when something is machine learning, not to say it can’t/won’t get better someday. Just certainly not now, and not at the cost of jobs.
Unions are Nazis. Let them quit. I don’t care about them. They don’t care about me or the game so why should I?
Ai performances will make it less expensive for anyone to produce games, not just Activision. Your hatred and toxicity against gamers and devs shows how terrible and awful actors and their fans truly are.
Get actors out of gaming. They make budgets massive and there’s no need for them. Studios only hire Hollywood actors because it’s a fad for normies. Actual gamers don’t give a fuck who voices the NPC, we care about how good the NPCs AI is.
Some braindead takes from the likes of Keil and Jack here. Actual L.
Jack Sidney is correct and sack is just a button hurt obese troll living in his parents basement