“It has been nearly a year since SAG-AFTRA’s video game contract, the Interactive Media Agreement, was extended beyond the original expiration date as we negotiated with the companies for critical terms SAG-AFTRA members need,”
Activision, Disney, EA, Epic, Take 2 and Warner Bros. have stalled the video game contract for almost a year. The sticking points are wages that keep up with inflation and limits on AI copying performance capture work. The companies want to capture an actor once and keep the data forever. Bargaining resumes on 26 September with a strike vote in hand.