Last weekend, Hellena Taylor broke her silence and explained why she didn’t voice Bayonetta 3. Originally by Platinum Games led us to believe that it was all due to scheduling issues, but this was a lie, Taylor’s absence was due to significant discrepancies with the remuneration the studio offered her to re-voice the famous Umbra witch.

It’s such a simple topic that it could be summed up in a paragraph, according to Helena Taylor of Platinum Games he offered $4,000 for the entire Bayonetta 3 duba character that she felt was an insult given her education and professionalism, as well as the fact that the franchise had created 450 million dollars, depending on the bender.

Taylor tried to negotiate with Hideki Kamiya, the president of Platinum Games, but in the end there was no luck and it was all over Jennifer Hale is doing the voice acting for Bayonetta 3. She is the new voice of the main character, but the controversy that all this has caused is not only not resolved, but also gives us an important dose of reality and a number of very important lessons.

I want to focus on just these aspects, on the dose of reality and lessons that the Taylor-Bayonetta case gave us, because ultimately I think that’s the most important thing of alland at least the media that provided the latest information deepened because it only stayed on the surface of the matter.

Bayonetta 3 and the importance of valuing yourself as a professional

It’s one of the biggest keys to it all, and I applaud Hellena Taylor for that. for being appreciated as a professional and for daring to raise his voice and expose a clear injustice even though he knew he might get into trouble because of the NDA that was placed on him.

In recent years, it’s a topic that has become an all-too-common evil. We tend to underestimate our professionalismour abilities and our work because we believe that there are many people who can replace us and that if we don’t jump through hoops and accept meaningless offers, someone else will come and do it and we will be left with nothing.

The Taylor case is an example of that and everything that is wrong with this world. Unfortunately, everything we said in the previous paragraph has since been fulfilled Taylor lost the role of Bayonetta 3 for respecting herself as a professional, and Hale replaced her without a second thought.. Is what Hale did wrong? Not strictly speaking, but it’s an issue for all professionals who have been fighting for years to be properly recognized, and it’s something other colleagues in Taylor’s profession have highlighted in numerous tweets of support.

That Taylor got so much support, and that so many colleagues in the profession have acknowledged that they are very poorly paidare things that speak volumes for Bayonetta’s voice and help us understand the deep resentment she felt when Platinum Games refused to offer her a payback more in line with the franchise’s success and the actress’ abilities.

There are important lessons to be learned from this dose of reality. The first is that we are at a point where many companies they don’t know how to properly appreciate talent, and in the end they only see numbers that suit them and that interest them. Secondly, we have the problem of the fierce competition that exists at the professional level, which is ultimately counter-productive as it prevents them from achieving their goals of improving such important things as pay and the terms of their contracts. It’s a classic, if you don’t do it for this money, someone else will and that’s it.

Third, we have another important lesson, and that is that it seems some even resent that Taylor was valued as a professional, as this actress also received negative criticism for being exposed in public. What can I say, I find it very sad. If only we all respected each other properly and if we didn’t accept “abusive” conditions or pay, the world would be a better place and we would end this kind of “wage slavery” culture that has been introduced in some professional sectors.